March 29: London to Berlin

It's Sunday.  It was raining hard when we left London, and it is raining even harder here in Berlin.  We got up at 7 this morning, packed and walked back to Tower Hill station.  We took the tube back out of town, anticipating our next destination.  It was remarkably problem free.  We arrived at TXL after a relatively quick, but very bumpy 100 minute flight.  No problems at Customs, luggage arrived, and we walked straight to the Tourist Services desk as planned.

The trip to our hotel was easy - one bus and about 20 minutes. We talked about heading straight to one of the museums after we picked up our museum pass at the airport, but when we got to the hotel we crashed.  Well, my foot is still bothering me, so really it was me (Ian).  The gout is gone, but the foot is bruised and blistered from walking on it while it is swollen.  (Margaret:  Yeah, I was so disappointed to have time to look at pictures and rest, after four hours of sleep last night.  No sacrifice too great.  Until Ian started snoring that is!)

After a rest we went for dinner and had German food.  Ian had Beef Rouladen and said it was the same as mine.  I had "Sour beef", pickled cabbage and potato dumplings.   Now we are resting up for tomorrow!