Berlin; Saturday, 03 August, 2013

Whilst the bus connection at Munich hadn’t changed we were at least only about 5 minutes late landing after being allowed to queue jump on the runway at Budapest, and as we landed the captain announced that there had been some gate changes, with the Berlin flight being moved much further down the terminal building, to a gate close to where transit passengers coming in on buses would emerge (as for the poor person who was trying to make the connection to Stockholm that had been swapped with the Berlin flight for the gates is another matter.)

Having made it back to the terminal building by bus, and then up to the gate I only had to wait about 5 minutes before we started the boarding process all over again. Settled in my seat with the plane fully loaded with passengers the captain informed us that there would be a slight delay whilst a few final transiting bags were loaded, I did start to wonder in that meant my bag was at risk of not making the flight.

Landed in Berlin it was obvious that my bag has been one of the last few bags as it was the first up on the belt. With my luggage I headed out of the airport and into town to the hotel.

Having checked in I went into the centre of town and had a wander round, stopping to take in one of the Spree river cruises that ply up and down the river, this one leaving from round the back of the Berliner Dom.

After the cruise I wandered over to Alexanderplatz and with perfect timing sat down to dinner under shelter just as a big thunder storm went overhead.

After dinner I had a bit more of a wander, before picking up the 100 bus to do a spot of seated sightseeing back through the city centre to Zoo, before hopping on the U-Bahn back a couple of stops to my hotel and a good night’s sleep.