First of all I am sorry for the delay of posting my first impressions about Berlin. It is a very busy schedule and no time for writing during the day. And during the nights I am too tiered for something else than sleeping.

Berlin here I come!
My flight to Berlin was operated by Malev Hungarian Airlines. One flight from Bucharest to Budapest and one from Budapest to Berlin (quite of logic I suppose). For the first time in my life I was late at the airport and I didn’t catch a window sit (for the first flight; on the second there was still some window seats available). The flight was operated with a new Boeing 737-600, with a lot of space for my feet. The main problem was that they couldn’t provide me some earphones, because they don’t have anymore. Other passengers leave the plane with the earphones. HUH! The second flight, the same type of aircraft, window seat and a taking off registered with my digital camera. Here it is.

2 hours later: Tegel Airport – Berlin; Sun. No wind. No rain. Black fancy car for transfer to the hotel. A 4 starts hotel. I have a double big-big-verybig bead. The room looks too cool to be true. Anyway. I don’t have time to spend on looking around because I have to be in the hall in 5 minutes. Dinner will be served in a traditional German bar-restaurant. The food was great.

No supermarket! We have gas stations!
Then from 11pm till 3am I was with three of my colleagues to find a shop, a supermarket, a non-stop-corner shop. Nothing!!!! Here everything gets closed at 8pm. And by the way Sunday almost nothing is opened. In the end we found a gas station from where we bought something to drink, chocolate and biscuits.

Bikes.
Everybody run a bike. Or anyway almost everybody. Young, old, business man or not, lots of people are using bikes to reach their school, office or whatever. This is because they know that if they will take a car they will not find a parking place. So… they are smart!

Sunday, July 3 – Berlin tour
We saw Potsdam and Berlin. Nothing much to be said here. Just see the photos.

Liberty at Berlin!
Berlin is nice. Here are not street-dogs or beggars. The UBahn (metro) and Sbahn (bus) are running all day long, 24 hours a day. But there is 2 euro a one-trip ticket!!! The thing is that if you want to have night-fun you can stay till no more than 1am at a restaurant or you can go in a fancy-shmancy place where you can dance after you have paid 10 Euro for the entrance and 7 Euro for a beer.

Also, here is the first city in Europe, where I have seen men and female couples, keeping on their hands or kissing in the middle of the street. Here are also some cinemas with “straight” and “gay” movies. (Another one I saw it is in Naples).

In Germany you are allow to drink and to smoke on the streets and in other public places. Prostitution is not an issue here. Girls, he-females or she-males can be picking up from the streets. Prices? Don’t know! :-)