Berlin: as enchanting as ever
After almost three whole months (oh, the horror) of sleeping in my own bed, I finally got out of Munich for a few days in Berlin. Berlin is one of the few places I go back to over and over and over again, because I will never get enough of it. It’s so big and diverse and… atmospherey. You know what I mean?
A highlight of the trip was getting to meet Snooker and Sweet No (oh yes, and Mimi!). And I get to see them (minus Mimi) again this coming weekend at the blogger meet-up. Woo hoo!
We met them at the charming Ampelmann Restaurant and ‘beach bar’, where I could indulge my Ampelmann fetish to my heart’s content. Later Snook took us to the kind of place you just don’t find in Munich: an Indian restaurant with a large outdoor terrace populated with glowing neon-pink plastic palm trees. The food was delicious, too.
We found a couple other new (to us) restaurants we liked this trip, too. MaoThai was yummy, cheap Thai food in big portions. In street food, we enjoyed falafel at a small döner kebab place along Karl-Liebknecht-Straße across the street from Alexanderplatz.
2009 marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and naturally the city is celebrating. There’s a great temporary open-air museum up at Alexanderplatz which chronicles the history of the Wall and the revolution which toppled it.
Speaking of museums, we hit a lot of them this trip. More in a later post.
