A slightly belated travel blog entry from Easter 2018 . . . . and with Easter 2019 coming up it seems about time I got this one done! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our trip to Berlin actually started in Dusseldorf as that was a reasonable place to get a flight to on the Thursday evening before Easter - plus it enabled us to travel across northern Germany by ICE train which is always a nice thing to do. Our fli...

Leaving Koln on the InterCity Express (ICE) at 1027 saw us arrive into Berlin Hauptbahnhof at around 1540 and with our train to Kiev due to depart at 2100 there was a little bit of time in our itinerary for some sightseeing. You can not afford to waste a minute! Having dropped our bags in the left luggage lockers at the impressive station there was time for a currywurst (a fabulous combination) before we walked around parts of Berlin seeing some of the 'top sigh...