Berlin day 4.

Day four was hogmanay. So we had a relaxing day to save our energy for the night. We made a second attempt to visit the Reichstag Dome but it was closed due to being covered in snow. Lynne and I shopped for dinner (it was stressful) we made some soup and ate crisps, drank Sekt and then headed out to the huge outdoor party at Brandenburger tor. The photos below show us eating dinner in the flat then on our way to the street party.







When the clock struck midnight there were fireworks, a Michael Jackson medley and snow falling. We danced in the snow to some German folk songs for a while then entered a dance tent and had a boogie to some dance classics and pop tunes. While we were dancing Claire kept trying to put all of her clothes onto the ground which was wet, dirty and beery so I was rescuing her clothes and balancing them on my head while dancing. Lynne took a few good photos of me with my huge turban on.   It was good fun, we got home around 4am and all felt crap the next day.

Lorna flew home on the 1st. Lynne, Claire and I had a walk on the 1st and wen to an award winning cocktail bar named after Claire's crush du jour. (Gainsbourg) it would have been a nice walk if I wasn't so hungover and kept getting waves of nausea. Berliners seemed to be out for kaffee und kuchen too and it was nice to be in a less touristy part of town and to get to feel a bit like a local.