I spent the majority of my day on a bike tour around the city. Many of the locals use bikes to get around because the city is very bike friendly and the public transportation can be pretty expensive. We got the most adorable bikes (they came with bells and squeaky toys!) so naturally my day involved ringing my bell incessantly and getting in people’s ways because I was riding one handed while taking lots of pictures.
During our tour we saw such sites as the Brandenburg Gate, the location of Hitler’s bunker, Checkpoint Charlie (the entrance to the American sector of Berlin), the Tiergarten and the site of the Nazi book burning (a memorial with empty shelving signifying all the books that were burned).
We even saw the hotel where Michael Jackson dangled his baby Blanket out the window (our guide was American and pointed it out since I think only Americans would care at all about that).
Rather than try and find some turkey (since I thought I would probably not be successful anyways), I had a feast of currywurst (a Berlin tradition…basically bratwurst drown in ketchup with some curry powder on top), a large chocolate covered pretzel and some German beer at a Christmas market.
Through my Dutch roommate, I met three Americans who were working in London and traveling for a week, so we spent our Thanksgiving night together at a place with some live music in a creepy alley with lots of graffiti (very Berlin of us!). We even commemorated our night together with (what we thought would be) a family photo. Around the city, there are these awesome instant black and white photo booths from the 70s, so the five of us hopped in. Sadly, my face was the only one that actually showed up so it just looks like I am trying to steal the spotlight…
