Krust bakery

A visit to Krust Bakery on South Great George's Street was a great way to brighten up a very dull Wednesday morning...

The smell as you walk in the door is just incredible!!! 

Lots of donuts to choose from and it would be a hard decision but as I had gone there for a cronut I chose a chocolate one. 

This was soft and not too flaky. It was delicious.

They're serving Marley coffee which is really nice. Even better is their current special is that you can get a coffee and a cronut for €4.50 - how can that be wrong?!

At the back there's a sandwich, salad and pizza counter. All looks fab & fresh. 

Grab a seat in the window and you can do some serious people watching over George's Street. 

The cronut was that good I picked up jam and Boston donuts to bring home...

Holidays are over!

I always find the last day of the holidays to be depressing and we had a long day to put in our last day as our flight wasn't until 10pm. 

We were a bit like bewildered tourists when we realised no shops were open for the Bank Holiday Monday in Berlin...

Still that wasn't an issue. We had a wander around the Potsdamer Platz Arkade (the shops werent open but the food places were) They currently have an exhibition celebrating 25 years since the Berlin Wall came down. This is well worth a visit. 

 

A watchtower that was on Potsdamer Platz... 

1961 construction of the wall

The original signs that were around Checkpoint Charlie

Just grabbed a quick ice cream at Caffe & Gelato. This was ok. 

Then we went for lunch at a beer hall. I tried the Nuremburg sausages and a pretzel. You get six of them and they're served with sauerkraut and mashed potato. Also tried a bit of Sean's schnitzel... That was huge! 

After that we went back to Fassbender & Rausch for dessert and hot chocolate. 

The view from our seat was pretty impressive... 

This time I got the mini chocolate mousse tort and a mocha with half dark / half milk hot chocolate. Sean had amaretto hot chocolate and his brother tried the irish hot chocolate. Sean chose the vanilla torte and his brother had the mini blueberry cheesecake. 

After we finished we headed back towards the hotel via Checkpoint Charlie. 

Picked up our cases & then went to the airport... Sad times as our Berlin adventure is over but glad to get home. After all Nil Aon Tintean mar a Thintean fein!!

Berliner

Day two in Berlin... Up early enough to go to visit the Berlin Wall Memorial. We got the bus to Brandenburg Gate. 

We found the location of the Fuhrerbunker - its now a curry wurst place and there are no markers although according to the tinterweb there are plans to reconstruct the bunker. 

We then took the u-bahn  to the Berlin Wall Memorial. This was on the wall of the station...

We then took a bus towards the Brandenburg Gate & Reichstag. Stopped at Hopfingerbrau Im Palais again. 

This time we had food - we all tried the Currywurst im Palais (Sausage & chips in curry sauce but a more spicier version) I had mine with a mango weisbeer! Imagine having that for breakfast?

But what the hell we're on holidays!! We then shared some apple streudel and I had an apple weisbeer. 

I had  booked the Reichstag Dome tour for that afternoon so it was just sooo nice sitting outside in the sunshine people watching. The Reichstag Dome is a great way to see the whole city and its free once you register your request online (You can do it when you get there but the queues were mental the day we went)

Back to the hotel for a quick change and then out for the evening. For dinner we went to Zsa Zsa Burger. 

I ordered a pink lady cocktail and then some coke zero. For my dinner I had a Bangkok Bang Burger - marinated chicken breast on a sourdough roll  with mango mayo. 

I like that they leave  the lettuce, tomato, gherkins, onion, crispy onion strings and coleslaw on the side so you can build your own. I got mine with Sweet Potato Fries..

Sean had the Iberico and his brother got the Kentucky. 

This place is small and hip and the burgers are all well cooked. The only downside for them was that the beer they're serving is Heino (yuk, apparently!) 

From there we took a bus to Tiergarten and headed to a huge beer garden, Schleusenkrug. This place really is large and sprawly. You could have eaten here too, the BBQ grill was open. The food smelled amazing and was nearly getting hungry. The place was v busy when we got there but we managed to find a table then headed to the bar to get some drinks. 

After there we took the S-Bahn to Hefner bar. Sat outside enjoying the warm Berlin evening with a Seabreeze cocktail.

We then took the S-Bahn and went back to Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt for wine, beer and pretzels. Just had to be done. 

Last stop of the night was a drink in the hotel piano bar.. Went with a Caiprinha this time to finish off a great day!