{"id":2565,"date":"2016-09-13T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2016-09-13T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T17:42:54","slug":"boating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/13\/boating\/","title":{"rendered":"Boating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up earlier this morning, thought we’d get coffee and wait for the boat tour, but no coffee, only the full breakfast. Hmmmm. So we sat and watched the boats go by (did we mention we’re staying right on the river?<\/a> Cause we are. Can see it from our room.) It was another lovely morning (we are here during a heat wave – sunshine and 30C most days. I’m loving it, Joe is melting.) The boat arrived right on time, we got on (though they almost lost me as they hadn’t properly secured the gangplank, new hire I think, but no harm done), and off we went in German and English. We were sat on the sundeck and we got sun (Joe melted). Got our coffee and sat back for four relaxing hours watching Berlin slip by. Even got to go through three locks! Definitely recommend the boat tour,<\/a> the long loop one is interesting.<\/p>\n

Joe will have to go through his photos and upload to flickr!<\/p>\n

We then headed back to the hotel, dumped camera, sorted out stuff, and right back out to the S-bahn and into the centre. Ate lunch and then went to the DDR Museum. That is a interesting museum! Played with loads, though didn’t get to drive the Trabi as the queue was awful; I was waiting but we got this really odd bloke who was shoving his way to the front of everything – he tried to shove in front of us to get tickets to go in, but the man selling the tickets didn’t let him. Quite odd. The museum is very hands on – open everything, poke at stuff, read, watch TV, answer the phone, watch old films. Really interesting.<\/p>\n

Then back to the hotel where we’ve had a g&t while watching the river and people go by. Going to shower off (did I mention it is hot?) and head out for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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