... it's now a tourist attraction, complete with mock guards! It's good to see history being put in context!
After visiting the Checkpoint (and reuniting there with those who hadn't wanted to stay in our 'garden suburb' (Wedding), we went to the bier festival. Yet another event that has to be seen to be believed. The festival is about 1 mile in length, along Karl-Marx-Allee (the main street in East Berlin). It is so long that it is served by 3 U-bahn stations!
Too many biers to count, including a number of old favourites. There were even Scottish biers (including Fraoch). To Robin's dismay, the main Scottish presence was a Belhaven stand... He does, however, report that the draft Newcastle Brown was 'wonderful'!
For me, the discovery of the festival was the bier from a Berlin microbrewery, Hops & Barley. Others managed to miss this one, but say the Delerium Tremens was worth it...
With an early start, the plans were to leave the fest at 1900 or so. We were only a few hours later than that...
I have to admit, i was a bit worried when the DT was found, but it appears everyone survived!
ReplyDeleteoh and... thanks for putting that song in my head!
ReplyDeleteSaturday was not a good day for DB to only run the S9 half way to Schoenefeld Flughafen...still, the main body flew back to Glasgow and were back on home soil at 11.30.
ReplyDeleteHector was first to touch 'base' the Bon Accord, at 14.30...
Hector, Howard, Robin and Peter made the Ally Arms for 17.00.
Just a minor correction...Howard and companion (me!) were actually in the Ally for 16:00 on Saturday.
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