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jemck at 05:13pm on 22/04/2008
jemck at 05:13pm on 22/04/2008What I didn't say in my last, hurried post was we were spending the second week of the Spring Holiday in Berlin. A very interesting city, on all sorts of levels. As has become our usual practise for family trips, we stayed in an apartment-hotel, which meant we had two bedrooms, a lounge, kitchen and bathroom all for less than the price of two hotel rooms. In this instance, we were staying with HSH, which I can heartily recommend.
We did a goodly amount of things; the excellent zoo, a good city bus tour that took us around the main sight-seeing highlights, the Technical Museum (most interesting even to the non-engineer/design and technology student of the family i.e. me), the Schloss Charlottenburg (most interesting even to the non-historians of the family i.e. the rest of them), the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum, the German Historical Museum, and yes, we went up the Fernsee Turm (TV tower). Even on a rather grey day, the view was astonishing.
I dusted off my schoolgirl German and managed to make myself understood well enough. I got a lot more fluent and confident with each passing day. For a change, people didn't assume I was Swedish as has happened previously. The only person to venture a guess, a waitress, assumed we were Irish. This was a bit of a surprise. Then we realised I had paid cash, including coinage, when we'd been in that restaurant earlier in the week, so the change in my purse will have included Irish euro.
I could diligently add the links to all those sights, and go into a lot more detail besides, but I have come back with the copy edit of Irons in the Fire needing dealing with pretty much instantly this week and there's a fair amount of other stuff to sort out, notably The Write Fantastic's calendar for the rest of the year. Oh and a couple of reviews to do. And Derby's Alt.fiction day on Saturday...
So I shall get back to it. Definitely refreshed for a change of scene and a week of family DVD-watching of an evening and reading absolutely nothing to do with work.
We did a goodly amount of things; the excellent zoo, a good city bus tour that took us around the main sight-seeing highlights, the Technical Museum (most interesting even to the non-engineer/design and technology student of the family i.e. me), the Schloss Charlottenburg (most interesting even to the non-historians of the family i.e. the rest of them), the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie museum, the German Historical Museum, and yes, we went up the Fernsee Turm (TV tower). Even on a rather grey day, the view was astonishing.
I dusted off my schoolgirl German and managed to make myself understood well enough. I got a lot more fluent and confident with each passing day. For a change, people didn't assume I was Swedish as has happened previously. The only person to venture a guess, a waitress, assumed we were Irish. This was a bit of a surprise. Then we realised I had paid cash, including coinage, when we'd been in that restaurant earlier in the week, so the change in my purse will have included Irish euro.
I could diligently add the links to all those sights, and go into a lot more detail besides, but I have come back with the copy edit of Irons in the Fire needing dealing with pretty much instantly this week and there's a fair amount of other stuff to sort out, notably The Write Fantastic's calendar for the rest of the year. Oh and a couple of reviews to do. And Derby's Alt.fiction day on Saturday...
So I shall get back to it. Definitely refreshed for a change of scene and a week of family DVD-watching of an evening and reading absolutely nothing to do with work.
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