Today we played it pretty low key, we got out around 11:00 and took a bus to an area where we saw a group of antiques stores when we took the bus tour around town. When we arrived it turned out that most of the stores are only open in the afternoon so we walked around for about an hour until things opened up.
Once stores opened we went to a few and then decided to head back to KA DA WE, a store that is to Berlin very much like Harrods is to London. It carries good quality up to true luxury merchandise, but it appears that they allow the very highest end products to be their own boutiques within the store. So you will see Hermes, Rolex, Burberry, etc in their own areas but they will also carry well known brands in large shared areas. In addition they have one complete floor dedicated to foods and eating. There are at least 20 small areas on the floor where one can sit and enjoy the specialities offered right there. In addition they have wine areas, baked goods, produce, fish, meat, cured meat etc. delimited by country. There must have been at least 500 people all eating, shopping, wine tasting, beer drinking, and more throughout the floor. We stopped and had small lunch of sausages for lunch, then we walked around and bought the makings for a lunch tomorrow on the train to Prague. In the evening we went out to a Berlin pub and had specialties of the city. Deb had a pork schnitzel while I had a potato soup and a stuffed cabbage with potatoes of course washed down with local Berlin beer. I was derelict in taking pictures so here are some interesting buildings we saw today, they seemed to be interspersed with newer kind of blah buildings. Did they survive the bombing of WWII in Berlin?
Today we played it pretty low key, we got out around 11:00 and took a bus to an area where we saw a group of antiques stores when we took the bus tour around town. When we arrived it turned out that most of the stores are only open in the afternoon so we walked around for about an hour until things opened up.
Once stores opened we went to a few and then decided to head back to KA DA WE, a store that is to Berlin very much like Harrods is to London. It carries good quality up to true luxury merchandise, but it appears that they allow the very highest end products to be their own boutiques within the store. So you will see Hermes, Rolex, Burberry, etc in their own areas but they will also carry well known brands in large shared areas. In addition they have one complete floor dedicated to foods and eating. There are at least 20 small areas on the floor where one can sit and enjoy the specialities offered right there. In addition they have wine areas, baked goods, produce, fish, meat, cured meat etc. delimited by country. There must have been at least 500 people all eating, shopping, wine tasting, beer drinking, and more throughout the floor. We stopped and had small lunch of sausages for lunch, then we walked around and bought the makings for a lunch tomorrow on the train to Prague. In the evening we went out to a Berlin pub and had specialties of the city. Deb had a pork schnitzel while I had a potato soup and a stuffed cabbage with potatoes of course washed down with local Berlin beer. I was derelict in taking pictures so here are some interesting buildings we saw today, they seemed to be interspersed with newer kind of blah buildings. Did they survive the bombing of WWII in Berlin?
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