Berlin day! We got breakfast in train station again and took the 9:30 train to Berlin, though not until after some confusion about the date of our ticket and whether we had reserved seats or not. Whoops. Oh well! We navigated to the Inn-Berlin to check in, which was kind of out of the way of the historic part of the city but had a really cool atmosphere, including wall murals and a big open common room and kitchen (this will be important later).
After a short rest and an internet break (wooo) we rode the tram in to see the Volkspark Hasenheide, which was supposed to be pretty but in the winter it’s pretty barren. There were lots of parents pushing little kids in combination pram/sleeping bags (the kids are in a little pouch in the cart, really cute) regardless, though! Also the park inexplicably had camels and llamas!? I’m not sure what that was about.
We then had some time to kill before our scheduled “Good Stuff” supper club (Peter cleverness strikes again! Finding something like this would have taken some serious googling skill…) was to start, so we tried to find the Museum of Photography, which was listed on our map as not that far away. As we found out later, the marker was in completely the wrong place, and so though we saw some interesting cars, some chocolate baklava, and an ad involving a walrus, we eventually gave up. Thankfully we found a place called Art of Chocolate to get some hot chocolate and rest at before hiking back to where the supper club would meet.
So a bit more about this supper club business – once a month, the people who run it pick different spots around the city and different dinner themes for the five or six courses. Then 12-14 people who know about this underground kind of thing (which is apparently popular in Berlin) can sign up. Very cool! We met at the Geist im Glas bar, which is a little place without much signage, but very cute. I’m sorry I didn’t take more photos but we were too busy drinking, eating, and chatting with people from all over who had heard about this thing. There was a good mix of German and English conversation; a young engaged couple who had come with their coworkers, two British girls temporarily living in Germany, a German man and his Canadian wife who was a science journalist, and more. Sarah, the journalist, was awesome to talk to and later emailed us a list of suggestions for when we’d be in Hamburg, which was supremely helpful (hold that thought!). I haven’t had that much fun with complete strangers in a very long time, maybe ever. The food was delicious, as were the wines and mixed drinks, and we all ended up staying until about 1am! What’s even more magical is that public transit in germany still comes every 15 minutes or so even after 1:30am. Hands down amazing.
After a short rest and an internet break (wooo) we rode the tram in to see the Volkspark Hasenheide, which was supposed to be pretty but in the winter it’s pretty barren. There were lots of parents pushing little kids in combination pram/sleeping bags (the kids are in a little pouch in the cart, really cute) regardless, though! Also the park inexplicably had camels and llamas!? I’m not sure what that was about.
We then had some time to kill before our scheduled “Good Stuff” supper club (Peter cleverness strikes again! Finding something like this would have taken some serious googling skill…) was to start, so we tried to find the Museum of Photography, which was listed on our map as not that far away. As we found out later, the marker was in completely the wrong place, and so though we saw some interesting cars, some chocolate baklava, and an ad involving a walrus, we eventually gave up. Thankfully we found a place called Art of Chocolate to get some hot chocolate and rest at before hiking back to where the supper club would meet.
So a bit more about this supper club business – once a month, the people who run it pick different spots around the city and different dinner themes for the five or six courses. Then 12-14 people who know about this underground kind of thing (which is apparently popular in Berlin) can sign up. Very cool! We met at the Geist im Glas bar, which is a little place without much signage, but very cute. I’m sorry I didn’t take more photos but we were too busy drinking, eating, and chatting with people from all over who had heard about this thing. There was a good mix of German and English conversation; a young engaged couple who had come with their coworkers, two British girls temporarily living in Germany, a German man and his Canadian wife who was a science journalist, and more. Sarah, the journalist, was awesome to talk to and later emailed us a list of suggestions for when we’d be in Hamburg, which was supremely helpful (hold that thought!). I haven’t had that much fun with complete strangers in a very long time, maybe ever. The food was delicious, as were the wines and mixed drinks, and we all ended up staying until about 1am! What’s even more magical is that public transit in germany still comes every 15 minutes or so even after 1:30am. Hands down amazing.
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