Tag: berlin

  • A day of two halves

    A day of two halves

    I did a last-minute check of the flight bookings just before leaving Sydney, and was disturbed to discover that the booking reference for the return flight from Svalbard to Tromsø was giving an error. I didn’t have time to investigate then, resolving to figure it out as soon as we were settled in Berlin. Today…

  • Sightseeing Mitte

    Sightseeing Mitte

    (Very) slow start to the day today: slept in until what turned out to be about 9AM: it was still dark as the inside of a cow. Strange: sunrise should have happened around 7:30. Is it that dark from clouds? No – it transpires that the hotel has a system of storm shutters which serve…