We really hated leaving Rothenburg but we needed to catch our train to Berlin. I had received an "alert" email from the German train authorities but I didn't pay much attention to it because it was in German, however, as far as we could tell, it looked like it just added a stop to our route. Kind of a mistake because the stop it added was the stop we should have gotten off to be rerouted to Berlin on a different train! But I digress.
We had our usual fabulous breakfast at the hotel and were preparing to head to the train station. Uhle told us that her husband, Klaus, was driving another couple to Wurzburg and we could ride along if we wanted to and that would save us from having to change trains two times just to get to Wurzburg. Sounded good to us so we hopped into the van and had about an hour's drive with a very nice young German couple. David sat up front and spoke German with Klaus and I sat in the back and talked to the couple. They were on holiday -- he was on a break from school and she was on a break from working two jobs. Very ambitious young couple and I enjoyed talking to them. The young woman told me she had been to the United States and loved Los Angeles. We found that of the German people we talked to who had been to the States, Los Angeles was their first choice to visit. She had also visited Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. The couple plan to live in the States and the young man hopes to complete his education here.
We had an uneventful train ride for the first leg of the trip and I even asked the ticket taker if our reservations were good (after showing him our tickets) -- in other words, should I have paid attention to the alert I had received. He assured me that everything was fine. We arrived in Gottingen only to discover our train to Berlin was cancelled! Luckily David knew enough German to talk to employees at the station and we were able to add another connection to the trip (and about one and one-half hours extra travel time) and we finally arrived in Berlin around dinner time. It wasn't that much of a delay or too big of a hassle but in the future I may pay more attention to alerts!
We took a taxi to our hotel called The Circus Hotel which was very nice . . . and very simple. The location was perfect for getting around Berlin. We checked in and decided we wanted something a little different for dinner so we asked at the front desk if there was a Mexican restaurant close by. She said yes, and sent us to Escados. We found it without any problem BUT it was an Argentinian restaurant, not Mexican. But by then we were tired so we had a great dinner there and headed back to our room for the night. We knew we needed rest because the next day we were going on a walking tour of Berlin.
P.S. Berlin is very fashion forward and, of course, I window shopped on the way to dinner. Sheryl, the first shirt I saw and liked was a t-shirt with the saying "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead!" on it. Of course I laughed out loud. I would have bought it for you but it was an oversize tank top and was all ripped up. Not exactly your style! In another store window a mannequin was dressed in a t-shirt that said "No One Reads Your Fucking Blog!" That really made us laugh and I think David wanted to buy it!
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