This morning we enjoyed one more leisurely breakfast in Prague. Let me tell you that if you are headed to Prague we have a great hotel recommendation for a ridiculous price. We have really appreciated everything about this neat little hotel. We were able to roll our suitcases to the train station in about ten minutes and had plenty of time to experiment with some food we had no idea what it was. We ordered from a little snack stand outside of the station. I had just enough Czech money left (Korunas) to buy a café latte before the train arrived.
So, along with several hundred of our new, best German friends we settled in for the four-and-a-half hour journey back to Berlin. We arrived at the main train station about 17hrs30 and the bus ride to our hotel was all of five minutes.
I picked our hotel because it was close to many of the things we wanted to see here. Dropping off our things in the room, we headed out immediately in search of food. I had glanced at a list of recommended restaurants in the room and we took our chance on one not far from the hotel because it was said to be a guest favorite and cheap – I liked the cheap part. We settled in to this cute little neighborhood joint next to a party of teenage girls laughing themselves silly.
Technically, the restaurant is Italian, but they had everything from burgers to Mexican to steaks. Cheryl was hungry and we decided to splurge and split a steak. It cost all of about $13. What a shock! They bought out the most amazingly tasty and perfectly prepared steak we had enjoyed in ages. Honestly, this was Ruth’s Chris quality in every way. On the side was a gigantic potato overflowing with some sort of sour cream type spread. Great choice!
By the time we got to the restaurant we were very close to the train station again. So, we hopped on a bus and got off not too far away in Alexanderplatz that used to be the very heart of communist East Berlin complete with the hideous soviet style architecture to go with it. The theme of our time in both Prague and Berlin has been to see the incredible changes that can come about in just 20 years. From Alexanderplatz we headed back toward the famous Brandenberg Gate along Unter den Linden, or Under the Linden Trees, that has become once again one of Europe’s great boulevards and filled with great sights.
By the time we made it the Brandenberg Gate, night had fallen and the gate was lit up in all its glory and was truly beautiful. This was the symbol of city divided for so many years. Now, once again, it unites the city as traffic flows freely in all directions. From there we walked through Berlin’s massive, 412 acre green space called the Tiergarten. Our hotel is on the other side of the park from the Brandenberg Gate, about a 20 minute walk.
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