We used to go to Berlin almost yearly but now that really hasn’t happened in a while, and I suspect the place where we always stayed, the place with the giant fish tank
is probably still shut.
Just on the off chance that someone has been there recently and is in a position to say “oh yeah, this place is fine”.
Wherever we go we usually just do clean and central, skip the breakfast and eat whatever the locals are having. So basically: not the Adlon.
We did watch and enjoy it. Bike hire along the Via Appia this morning out to the Park of Aqueducts, then train to Florence this pm and the Uffizi tomorrow
Prolly too late, but spotting the covered walk from the Palace on the south side of the river to the Uffizi is a nice way to pass some time a you walk around.
Interesting day. We were up early, out of the Airbnb by 8 and, via tube & bus, were at the bike rental place by 930.
Picked up the bikes and took off into the Caffarella valley park along trails and finding various old buildings & features scattered amongst the countryside. But we’d realised our train was leaving Rome at 1pm rather than 3 so there was less time to see all the aqueducts than it really needed. We looped back along the old Roman road past various sometimes huge old structures got the bikes back and we’re back at Termini just in time to catch the train which we then learned was cancelled. We were able to get another changing at Orte and enjoyed a leisurely 4hr ride up through Umbria and Tuscany to Florence. The weather is beautiful here at the moment, 28-31C so a stint outdoors was great. Didn’t have time to fly the drone or take many pictures but we’ve resolved to come back and explore the area more thoroughly. So much to look at, too little time today.
The trains (public transport generally) are clean, comfortable and efficient, shops are full of produce and the people seem content. Feels very different to the UK at present, certainly in the cities.
FoL wanted to meet a mate who was coming into Rome yesterday afternoon so he’d upgraded his ticket to a later, super fast bullet train (we don’t have any such equivalent in the UK) and if we did, you’d bankrupt yourself buying a ticket. 170 miles in 1h25 for about £45.
