Pancakes In Berlin
I like my crêpes, but these were just ordinary pancakes, as they weren’t made from buckwheat.
Pancakes In Berlin
A pity really, as when I saw the stall, I felt I’d like one!
Berlin’s Pseudo-Tourist Buses
Berlin has a short bus route numbered 100 across the centre using double-deck buses, that doubles as both a tourist and a general route. It passes a lot of the main tourist sites in a similar way to London’s route 11.
Use of this route is included in the Berlin Day Transport Ticket. I caught the bus from the Zoological Garden.
Like New Buses for London, they have two staircases.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is one of the landmarks of Berlin.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
I remember standing here a few years ago with C discussing the merits of one of the most radical reconstructions of a bomb-damaged church. I think we disagreed, in that she disliked it and I liked it.
It is certainly a different approach to that used at Coventry Cathedral.
In some ways though perhaps the approach taken at Liverpool with the church of St. Luke is more honest, as you are showing war in all its horror. It was after all, C’s favourite church.
In some ways that fact, illustrates her attitude to religion. When I met her, she went to church regularly and had even as a fifteen-year-old a few years earlier, made the decision to change parishes. By the time she died in terrible pain, she had no faith left!
She would be horrified at what is going on in the world in the name of religion. Surely no-one of a sane mind could approve some of the atrocities perpetrated in the name of gods in the last few years.
Surely now over 70 or so years after the end of the Second World War and over fifty years after he first performed it, Bob Dylan’s, With God On Our Side rings even more true.
Dating A Building In Berlin
I saw this next to my hotel in Berlin.
Dating A Building In Berlin
I can’t say I’ve seen anything so honest elsewhere giving the date of a building.
Would I Go Back To Warsaw Again?
Most certainly! But I’d certainly stay in a different hotel.
I’d also plan it better, as there is lots to see that I didn’t!
Breakfast By A Hard Rock Cafe
As the hotel food was so unobtainable and about as likely to be as gluten-free as a lorry load of freshly harvested wheat, I decided to get my breakfast on the walk to the station, where I would get my train to Berlin.
I had an excellent omelette with a wide range of identifiable fillings, a proper cup of tea and a large glass of orange juice, served by a charming waitress, whose English was better than wot mine is in a small cafe next to the Hard Rock one.
Breakfast By A Hard Rock Cafe
It’s underneath the white umbrellas in the picture.
Gluten-Free Sweets In Warsaw
I found this shop close to the Old Town Square in Warsaw.
It was selling gluten-free sweets.
What attracted me was the gluten-free sign on the door. It looks like someone is doing their best to promote the concept of gluten-free food.
On searching the Internet I found this Polish site.
One thing I notice in the site is that the Polish Coeliac Society was only founded in 2006. So things must have improved in recent years.
We need a few more gluten-free sweet shops!
Walking Around Warsaw
I spent most of the day wandering around Warsaw.
It is substantially flat and as I had a bus ticket for the day, I could sometimes cheat.
Four Memorials In Warsaw
Warsaw has a sorry history in the last hundred years. I took the tram to slightly outside the city centre to visit these four.
Sadly the Museum of the History of Polish Jews was closed as it was Tuesday.
The links to the appropriate Wikipedia pages follow.
1. Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East
2. Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
Smoking In Restaurants In Poland
The weather in Poland was so good that I ate outside in a couple of places.
But unlike the UK, where people tend not to smoke where food is served, you sometimes get smokers in the areas outside restaurants.
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