Berlin Day 20 (4 August)

Deliberately quieter day today.  As with Hamburg, many things were closed today being a Sunday.  We decided to make the most of the sun and grabbed books and some food and walked to the Tiergarten.   Lovely park to stroll around particularly at this time of year. Many shades of green and ponds meandering through the park.  After a bit of a stroll we sat on a bench facing the River Spree and watched the many boats going past (with many tourists) and walkers, joggers, dogs, bikes, scooters etc go past on the path in front of us.  Happily wiled away a couple of hours doing this and reading books and newspapers.

Back to the hotel early afternoon and watched a movie on Stephen's ipad - Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. Good fun movie.  Missing English television.  Hotels we have been staying in have only had BBC News or Sky News - both on endless loops.  We watch every couple of days but Sky News, which is all we have had in Germany is fairly ordinary.  I was craving something in English other than endless news so the movie it was.

We did go back to an Italian restaurant last night which we had visited on the first night and both enjoyed pasta (with no meat or potatoes - yah!) and some good Italian quaffing wine (red).  Finished off again with a liquor each.  Had to have a break from the bratwurst etc.