Friday and Saturday
Friday I decided to go back to the Hauptbahnhof station to get my tickets to Copenhagen for Sunday and return on Wednesday…..Again a line up, but because the Eurail is first class for over 26 year olds I got to go in a shorter line (am I sounding like a broken record?), only 5 people instead of 25 people. It all went smoothly. By the way all I am paying for for these tickets is to reserve a seat 4 Euros per trip….the rest is on the Eurail pass. I’ll let you know in the end how that works out.
Then out to find a cache…but someone was sitting on it…so I will try that one another day. Then to the money exchange place to get some Danish Kroner (100DK=about $17 or 13 Euros) I don’t know how expensive it is in Denmark but it was sure hard to find a hotel and what I found was more expensive than what I usually pay and looks like it is a lot simpler. We will see….
Then I walked south and found a cache was call 'Fuehrerbunker'….here is the English description …..
Short, fast, simple cache in the center of Berlin.
It´s not the search itself that counts this time - it´s the history of the place.
In the area the cache is hidden, you can see just a harmless parking- place and a playground.
More than 60 years ago, exactly at this point the so- called "Fuehrerbunker" was located. Adolf Hitler´s last Bunker in which he lived the last days of World War II and in which he also finally shot himself.
The spot of the cache-location is merely the spot, where Hitler and Goebbels plus their two wives
have been burnt after their suicide. The Bunker itself is almost vanished, just some fragments remained some feet under the ground. Many of it was blown up by the old GDR-Government of the former East Berlin.
If you are interested in this topic, refer to the german movie "Downfall" (Oscar nominated
in 2005) or get some google-infos, there should be much to find.
Friday I decided to go back to the Hauptbahnhof station to get my tickets to Copenhagen for Sunday and return on Wednesday…..Again a line up, but because the Eurail is first class for over 26 year olds I got to go in a shorter line (am I sounding like a broken record?), only 5 people instead of 25 people. It all went smoothly. By the way all I am paying for for these tickets is to reserve a seat 4 Euros per trip….the rest is on the Eurail pass. I’ll let you know in the end how that works out.
Then out to find a cache…but someone was sitting on it…so I will try that one another day. Then to the money exchange place to get some Danish Kroner (100DK=about $17 or 13 Euros) I don’t know how expensive it is in Denmark but it was sure hard to find a hotel and what I found was more expensive than what I usually pay and looks like it is a lot simpler. We will see….
Then I walked south and found a cache was call 'Fuehrerbunker'….here is the English description …..
Short, fast, simple cache in the center of Berlin.
It´s not the search itself that counts this time - it´s the history of the place.
In the area the cache is hidden, you can see just a harmless parking- place and a playground.
More than 60 years ago, exactly at this point the so- called "Fuehrerbunker" was located. Adolf Hitler´s last Bunker in which he lived the last days of World War II and in which he also finally shot himself.
The spot of the cache-location is merely the spot, where Hitler and Goebbels plus their two wives
have been burnt after their suicide. The Bunker itself is almost vanished, just some fragments remained some feet under the ground. Many of it was blown up by the old GDR-Government of the former East Berlin.
If you are interested in this topic, refer to the german movie "Downfall" (Oscar nominated
in 2005) or get some google-infos, there should be much to find.
This place is full of history and the caches take me to them….there was a sign on the other side of the street that told the story….but usually people would just pass by this place and not notice it..
The next cache I tried to find when I was with C & C but someone was sitting there….this time I came in to the little corner of the Tiergarten….and a family with a little girl followed me in….they were caching too….the little girl was, she was 2 or 3 years old….the family had already found it and they wanted to have her find it too….she put her mark (a drawing of a sun/cat?) under mine. I had a nice conversation with them.
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| Part of circle of stones |
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| for a June21 celebration I missed it! |
I haven’t gone into the Tiergarten too much because when we were in this area last week a lot of the trails were closed because the main boulevard is part of the “fan park” area for soccer. But today I walked through….it is like our Stanley Park….Central Park, a busy place with lots of people riding bikes, walking, jogging, picnicking, playing, lazing around…maybe waiting for the evening’s festivities….Germany playing Greece, I think it‘s going to be one crazy place tonight. I tried for another cache….but again someone was sitting on it!!!
Headed back to the house to have some dinner and watch the game…Germany 4,Greece 2.…after every German goal fireworks went off around here. I put together an itinerary for the next couple of weeks to send to Sheryl and booked one of the hotels we will stay in on the way to Paris……it looks like a very busy time!
I haven’t gone into the Tiergarten too much because when we were in this area last week a lot of the trails were closed because the main boulevard is part of the “fan park” area for soccer. But today I walked through….it is like our Stanley Park….Central Park, a busy place with lots of people riding bikes, walking, jogging, picnicking, playing, lazing around…maybe waiting for the evening’s festivities….Germany playing Greece, I think it‘s going to be one crazy place tonight. I tried for another cache….but again someone was sitting on it!!!
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| Segway tours |
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| Travelling bar |
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| They're back! |
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| Hermsdorf library |
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| Friday night bookmobile |
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| Curt's Street |
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| Friedrichshain |
Saturday I got a slow start on the day, I had decided to head over to the area that Curt lived when he was here from September 2007 to end of April of 2008, Friedrichshain, in the far eastern part of Berlin. The area is more of an area of apartments…families, young people….near a large park Volkspark Friedrichshain…seems like a busy place…a library, stores, restaurants, bakeries…..I wandered around for a while (found a cache) but then threatening rain clouds and a wind picked up so I cut my walk short. I then hopped the Ubahn back to Alexanderplatza (found another cache as drops of rain fell). Then back on the U8 then S1 back to Hermsdorf…arrived a bit before 4:00 picked up a little dessert and a bun to build a sandwich for the train tomorrow. All the shops around here were closed down already.
Came home to an email from Curt…..now packing and getting ready for my next adventure tomorrow.
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