Sunday 11 May 2014

Berlin Trip

Diary explanation 
TUESDAY 22nd
On Tuesday morning we came to the Hight School to revise our DNIs or Passports. At 8:45 we take the bus to the airport and  there we take the plane to Berlin. At 17:30 we arrived. Then we take a VIP bus that take us to the St. Christopher's hostel. It was quite comfortable and quite big.I think our bedroom was worse than the others. When we set up then we went to the Brandenburger Tor that it was very big. we walked among all the avenue and saw lots of different shops and monuments. At night we went to the typical restaurant in Berlin: Maredo. We ate a poor menu: salad, a boiled potato with very small piece of steak and turkey. The desert was a lemon ice cream. Then we went for a walk and saw the Atlético de Madrid and Chelsea's match in a bar. Finally we returned to the hostel and went to sleep.
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WEDNESDAY 23rd
This day was the cultural one. We had breakfast early and then we went to the Reichtag (the parliament). We had an audiogude that explained everything, inside the Reichtag's Dome, about the monuments and important buildings of Berlin. then we visited the Holocaust Memorial. At midday we had free time to take a walk and have lunch in the Tiergarten park. In the afternoon we went to the former communist area, visited the Museum of Berlin's Story and visited Check-point Charlie and the shopping area. Then we had dinner in Maredo's and went to the hostel and saw the Real Madrid vs Bayern Munchen's match. Unexpectedly, in the hostel there were more Madrid's fans than Bayern's fans. That night we had a little mishap with the staff.
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THURSDAY 24th
On Thursday we woke up early and went to the Concentration Camp of Sachsenhausen and we had and audioguide that explained all about the camp's parts. At the end of the visit, we went to East Side Gallery, a big part of the Berlin's Wall. It was very nice. We had lunch in the turkish neighborhood of Kreuzberg. Then we went to the Jew's Museum. Then we had dinner in Maredo's.

FRIDAY 25th
This day we saw all the Museum's of Berlin. First we visited the Kaiser Wilhem church and then we chose go to the zoo, because the guide Shadia told us that the zoo was very nice and there was a panda. Unfortunatelly the panda was dead, but in general the zoo was great. After we had lunch, we went to visit all the museums. After we had dinner, we went to the hostel. We wanted to stay awake, but finally we slept.
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SATURDAY 26th
This was the final day of the trip. We had free time to do the last shopping and visit other places in the area. We met at 12:30 p.m. at the hostel. And then we went to the airport, take the plane and came again here.

The personal valuation of the trip is: we walked a lot, used a lot of transport (metro and bus) and dinner each day got better.