July 31, 2012. From Cairanne (Violes) to Berlin

En Route to Berlin

Guten Tag

OK… left hotel at 5:30 am and drove to Nice (3+ hours) to catch a plane to Berlin via Brussels. The drive was fine, except that we were both pretty exhausted.. and it took every bit of alert energy to just make sure we were on the right road every step of the way… The GPS has been a lifesaver, along with checking the route over and again .. and our location.. on the iPhone app.

Made it to Nice Airport (whizzing by all the homes of the rich and famous in Cannes and Antibes)… and then flew to Brussels and changed planes to get to Berlin. Arrived in Berlin (a city we have not seen since the wall fell… we had been here oh so many years ago, having driven through the old East Germany from Sasnitz (took a boat from the southernmost tip of Sweden to the northernmost tip of Germany/East and drove to Berlin)…  So it’s going to be interesting to spend a few days here.

Anyway, we just arrived at the Grand Hotel in Berlin.. a last minute choice.. and quite a change from the bordello in Violes. But had we done a bit more homework, probably would have stayed in a different area.. but this is fine and very very comfortable.

We’re off to dinner in about two hours. 

I’ll try to write tomorrow ..

Auf Wiedersehen

Fern

Ps — See –Didn’t I say this was going to be a very calm trip and more on the boring side than our usual travels??