Today's Freestyle Daily.
For Warnemunde, Germany.
It's pretty quiet, still.
A few buildings.
And not much else.
A Ferris wheel in the distance to the right.
And a bowling place to the left. I guess if the highways all got shut down and we couldn't go anywhere, we could just stay here and do those.
Long line for breakfast.
I love the hash.
And we're off.
Warnemunde is a district in the city of Rostock. We're at the Warnemunde Cruise Center at the Rostock Port.
Some bathrooms inside.
Our tour buses waiting for us. We took a Viator bus tour to Berlin because it was about a third of what the official NCL cruise cost and always got back to port on time according to the reviews.
This one is ours.
Free mini bottles of alcohol on the bus.
A coffee maker and a bathroom inside.
We had a full bus of around 40 people. That's good; if we're back to port late, they'll be more likely to wait for 40 people rather than five.
We left exactly on time; very German.
The ship.
You can also take a train to Berlin, but then you have to also get around the city once you're there.
Taking pictures.
A mural.
Sheep.
The fast food restaurants still have large outdoor play areas that the US had in the 1980s.
A large herd of deer.
A couple more.
Cows.
We stopped at a gas station.
You have to pay for the toilets.
Some different Kit Kats for Ogii.
We might need Euros here, especially coins for bathrooms.
Everyone has their money.
Corn field.
A few of the small towns we passed had churches with large steeples.
Our first stop in Berlin: Charlottenburg Palace.
The entrance.
Our guide telling everyone where the bathrooms are and when to be back. He had an umbrella so it was easier to find him.
In front of the castle.
Me and Mom.
Statue in the courtyard.
Close up.
Clock tower.
Statue at the top.
Entrance statue and clock tower.
From the other side.
Side hall of the palace.
Back on the bus to the next stop. Some homeless people living under a bridge.
Tiger mural.
Person mural.
Then we headed down Kurfurstendamm, which is lined by many lined with expensive shops.
More.
And more.
Victory Column.
With cannons and columns at the base.
Winged Victory at the top.
Driving through the huge Tiergarten with the Berlin TV Tower and Brandenburg Gate in the distance.
Soviet War Memorial.
Tank.
Soldier.
The next stop was Hitler's bunker.
It used to look like this.
But now it's all gone.
Flags around the Reichstag.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
From above, everyone looks the same (the Nazi perspective on the Jews). But from within, every one is a unique individual (the victim perspective).
You can walk between the columns.
They are very tall in the middle.
Shorter at the edges.
US Embassy.
The double brick in the road is where the Berlin Wall was.
Brandenburg Gate.
The quadriga at the top.
Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin.
Where Michael Jackson held his baby, third floor, second window.
Ogii by a friendly bear.
Another bus tour.
This was an offical one from the cruise ship.
Equestrian statue of King Friedrich II of Prussia.
Bebelplatz.
Humboldt University of Berlin.
Many statues on top.
Even more on the Zeughaus (the History Museum).
Close up.
Stopping for lunch, with the Berlin TV Tower and the Red City Hall behind us.
Uh oh, a shoe sale.
Dad, hurry the women along so they don't stop.
St. Nicholas' Church.
St. George The Dragonslayer.
We had lunch at Georgbraeu.
Ogii with a beer.
Me with a beer and Dad with a coaster.
With our food.
Meatballs, bratwurst, schnitzel, and goulash.
And apple strudel.
A little bird waiting for us to drop some food.
They found some magnets.
And clothing.
Cuckoo clock magnets.
This old water pump still works.
Neat sculptures.
Oh no, they saw the shoe sale.
Everyone meeting after lunch.
Our guide's drawing of the Berlin Wall and the four quarters of the city after WWII.
Across a bridge onto Museum Island.
Close up on a statue.
Another one.
Rekonstruktion des Sanchi-Tores vor Berliner Schloss, a replica of the gate at a Buddhist complex in Sanchi, India.
Alte Nationalgalerie.
Equestrian statue of Frederick William IV.
Walking under Kolonnadenhof.
Bullet holes from the war.
Diana.
A couple taking wedding photos.
They had some expensive vehicles, including a Ferrari.
Map of Museum Island.
Lines of trees at the Lustgarten.
A 1999 marker.
Berlin Cathedral.
Above the door.
Many statues.
Altes Museum (History Museum).
Lion Fighter.
Us by the cathedral.
And museum.
Watch your phone, Mom.
Fountain in front of the cathedral.
With a little rainbow.
Many people relaxing on the grass.
Checkpoint Charlie.
There was no parking, so we drove through.
Checkpoint Kebab.
Gropius Bau art museum.
Many carvings.
Berlin Wall.
Our guide explaining how it worked.
Inside the Topography of Terror building.
Long line for the bathroom.
Lots of history.
Ogii is on the east side, I'm on the west.
Neat jacket.
Back on the bus and passing the Federal Council building.
The Mall of Berlin.
A busker juggling in the street at the red light.
Back onto the Autobahn.
Fields with bales and wind turbines.
Stopping at another gas station.
This toilet is a bit more expensive.
Buying snacks.
Many fields.
A tractor.
More deer.
Back to the ship.
The Ferris wheel lit up.
First thing when we're back on the ship is turning my laptop on to be a mobile hotspot so everyone can be on the internet.
We got our laundry back, but they gave us someone else's underwear instead of ours. We took it to guest services and left it. They said they'd deliver ours when they found it.
Pulling off all of the little laundry stickers.
There was no big entertainment show that night. The game show was 55 to Stay Alive.
Stacking cups.
Blowing cups off with a balloon.
Moving on a pool towel.
Shaking ping pong balls out of a Kleenex box.
Moving an orange with a banana in pantyhose.
Moving ping pong balls between their knees.
A video of a few of the games.
Late night snacks at O'Sheehan's.