This ain't no flyover country

Today revolving around our noon appointment at the Reichstag for which we needed to arrive 30 minutes in advance. We tried a different coffee shop where the coffee was better than yesterday, but the food was not. Due to lollygagging around, we left their immediately for the train station and found the long line and waited. Once inside, there was more waiting before our guide arrived. At two minutes after noon, he started even though more people were scheduled for the tour. I

We started the day late with coffee and salmon bagels. The cafe had a life size cutout of David Hasslehoff. In 1989, after the wall had come down but before reunification, he sang a song “Looking for. Freedom, at a performance near the Brandenburg Gate that became the theme song for east Germany. Of course, we had a photo opportunity with him! Then we started ambling in the direction of the Bradenburg Gate where we were to meet our guide for a walking tour focused on WWII

On this Sunday we are getting an early start to take three trains and two flights to arrive at our finally destination, Berlin, where we will spend six days reliving my last trip there in 1983 and explore what I missed and experience the city in its now unified state. All went well getting to Lyon airport but our first flight to Frankfurt was delayed almost an hour. That gave us time to have a sit down lunch and watch then planes got by. In Frankfurt, we had to go through sec