One of our favourite things to do when travelling is visit the main cathedral or church of a city. Some of our best memories from London came from exploring Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral, so naturally Berlin Cathedral was high on the list for our second day in the city. The day began with
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Berlin didn’t begin in Berlin. It began in Munich, before sunrise, in a quiet hotel lobby where a small tragedy was unfolding. Months earlier, I had booked our train to Berlin without knowing that complimentary buffet breakfasts would later be included with our Munich Hotel. By the time we discovered this happy surprise, the train
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I woke up early on my 40th birthday with the strange realisation that I’d be spending the day in two different countries. It felt like an unexpected gift, a milestone wrapped inside a travel day. We started the morning in Bern with one last buffet breakfast at the Goldener Schlüssel (The Golden Key). Afterwards, we
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Leaving Berlin (Too Soon) We were wrapping up our time in Berlin, a city we honestly wished we could’ve stayed in longer. But we had three nights booked in Amsterdam before our flight home, so we had to keep moving. What should’ve been a simple travel day quickly turned into one of the most chaotic
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By our third day in Berlin, the city was starting to feel familiar. The TV Tower became our anchor whenever we lost our sense of direction in central Berlin, and Alexanderplatz naturally settled into the role of our gateway to the city. Even the walk back to the Hilton felt comfortable by then. There was
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