Adventures in the Train Station

Well got a little lazy again today…didn’t leave home until about 11 and it was already very warm

I had a number of things to get done today….the first being getting to Hauptbahnhof Station to get my Eurail pass activated and reserve train tickets to Prague and back. It is a beautiful building…..but intimidating when everyone is rushing about and seems to know where they are going! I found the Travel Centre one floor down from where I arrived on the S-bahn ….I don’t know if I explained this or not but Berlin has 2 systems the S-bahn and the U-Bahn ….I haven’t figured out what the difference is, I thought U for underground, but both go underground and they both go on the surface, and Cam took yet another system (same tickets) the RE and RB trains to the airport(I think they are express)…..it is a complex web of trains…..

Val just sent me this so I'm adding the link about the tain system  U.Bahn.And.S.Bahn  Thanks Val.


Then there are other trains that go to other cities the DB …Deutsche Bahn…..this is what I am going on tomorrow morning. My train leaves at 10:45 and I get there at about 3:30 in the afternoon.

Well after I managed all that, I looked around the station…very large…lots of stores, restaurants, snack bars…and trains and tracks then stopped to have an ice tea.

Next I went off in search of a specific  bookstore…..

　

Then on to the Zoo….not to go in but to catch #100 bus that I have been reading about in the tour books….a public double decker bus that goes from the Zoo to Alexanderplatz …it stops at all the major tourist sites . Some of the tour books give a written tour of each of the stops.
I went at far as Freidrichstrasse because I had seen a currency exchange office there and the Czech Republic doesn’t use Euros….they use Koruna….100Ckz is about 4 Euros or 5 Canadian Dollars.

Then I wandered into some of the shops….hmmmm the shoes here look really comfy and I’m thinking there might be a new pair of shoes in my bag before I leave.

Finally got back to Hermsdorf before all the shops closed for the day ….picked up a few groceries, had dinner, packed my backpack for my little trip, got my GPS ready for caching in the Czech Republic (another country!) and I’m ready for sleep