Berlin; Saturday, 04 August, 2012

I woke up feeling a lot less stiff than I had expect to do after an afternoons cycling, so boyed with energy I headed over to the cycle tour company to hire a bike for the day.

I had a long cycle round the centre of Berlin, stopping off at some of the sights I had missed previously, including the excellent exhibition at the Stasi documentation centre.

I then cycled out to the site of the former Templehof airport, now a community park where you can cycle on the former runway and taxi-ways, which is a very weird experience, if only for seeing that they are not as flat and level as I had expected them to be.

Then I cycled back into town and had a long cycle round the wall area and the Tiergarten, including stopping off for a very late lunch at the same place I had had dinner the previous evening, before, feeling now very stiff, it was time to head back to the hire shop and return the bike.

I staggered back to the hotel and had a very long hot shower, which relieved a lot of the stiffness and then headed back out for a late night wander round before finally returning to the hotel to grab a late drink at the bar and then to bed.