{"id":5688,"date":"2022-08-10T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2022-08-10T21:04:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T03:04:35","slug":"european-vacation-day-9-first-morning-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2022\/08\/european-vacation-day-9-first-morning-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"European Vacation Day 9: First Morning in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

25 July 22: After yesterday’s shenanigans, we have now figured out how public transportation is going to look from our apartment (numerous closures this week near us, both the S-Bahn and the trams are unavailable). We aren’t far from the Alexanderplatz train station, about 0.4km away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Today we are taking our time getting ready and will take a midday train to the town of Wittenberg, to see the Schlosskirche<\/a> where Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses, a milestone in establishing the Protestant church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave and I walked to a local grocery<\/a> this morning to pick up food for the apartment. As always, we thoroughly enjoyed seeing the differences in foods (and prices) compared to other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the Hackescher Markt train station. Which is closed this week. Note the train bypassing the station…all of them are doing that.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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There was a Tassimo machine in the Port en Bessin apartment and a Nespresso machine in the Paris apartment. To make the tiny coffees. Here in Berlin we have a good old fashioned Krups 10 c. machine…so here’s Dave picking out a good German ground coffee to use with it: Dallmayr Classic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I love Smarties candies so much! They’re like M&Ms except the candy shells are much thicker and each color is uniquely flavored.

It was cool to see it as a yogurt mix-in!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

25 July 22: After yesterday’s shenanigans, we have now figured out how public transportation is going to look from our apartment (numerous closures this week near us, both the S-Bahn and the trams are unavailable). We aren’t far from the Alexanderplatz train station, about 0.4km away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t