Saturday, June 2nd

We tried to wake up early and managed to do 8:15pm. We headed to our last day of free breakfast. Though, the Danish breakfast didn’t compare to the Swedish breakfast. The danishes weren’t great but we managed to fill up on our fair share of kiwis. It is crazy – they had bowls and bowls of fresh kiwis halfs. They would never have this in the US because of the cost – where do kiwis come from? Something to google.

We hit the Danish roads headed from Gedser, Denmark to catch a ferry across the Baltic Sea to Rostock, Germany. This helped us avoid 200 miles of driving through Denmark where gas is at a premium. Luckily enough our TomTom was able to guide us to this tiny Danish town. We arrive at the ferry terminal to have them tell us they don’t take credit cards and our ATM card was not working either. We freaked after they told us the closest one was kilometers and kilometers away but then they suggested they took Euros and we had just enough to cover that with the little bit of Danish Kronos we had left. The ferry took just under 2 hours and we caught up on reading about Berlin and sleeping during most of the journey.

Our first scare with the European roads came after we entered Deutschland. We were almost empty (“10 miles left, consider your range” read the on-screen warning”), approaching the first needed fill up in our new car. Too bad there were NO gas stations to come by. Great our first fill up is on some tiny road outside Rostock, Germany. TomTom came to the rescue however and found us a hidden fuel station with just a few miles left. We enjoyed a pricey fill up (70 euros!) and our first schnitzel sandwich. Welcome to the motherland Jim.

We arrived in Berlin around dinner time and checked into the fancy Westin Grand Berlin (thanks to points from Thea & Eric!). This hotel was beautiful and the Westin Heavenly Beds were to die for! We were located right downtown in Eastern Berlin by the infamous street, Unter Den Linden (street of Lime trees). We ventured to a recommended local spot Deponie3 and sat in the back by the garden which enjoyed the noise of the S-Bahn passing above us. Jobby had his first Hefevisen and the infamous German meat plate (his new favorite meal in Europe) and Carla enjoyed a water 1/10^th the size of Jobby’s beer and a plate of schnitzel, potatoes and some veggies. After that we strolled the Unter Den Linden and learned all about the EU and ended up at the Brandenburg Gate for some more Berlin history. Then it was off to bed to enjoy our best night of sleep yet!