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Our first day in Berlin was of course used for sightseeing - an obscene amount of walking and looking at buildings (which here are pretty impressive, each one as big and as amazing as each other).
First stop: The Brandenburg Gate
Second stop: The Victory Column - We walked up this, and although it didn't look very far, it felt EXTREMELY far. I believe it has 260-something stairs which are an absolute lung killer - those stairs hate the human legs and want to see them die (and mine almost did).
Third Stop: The Zoo...naturally (I love Zoos). You can get so close and have great views of all the animals, nothing like in England - Health and Safety must be a myth around here because I swear for half the animals I could have jumped the metre gap and been stroking them. They have a great variety of animals, some which seem like they may be going mental (like the Elephant walking the same path the entire time and the Polar Bear doing some crazy ass dance).


 
So I just got back from an unbelievable trip to Berlin, I've always been a massive fan of Germany and the language because of my school teacher but this was my first time in the capital city.
Although my German skills lacked severely (embarrassing because I did it until A-level) we managed fine because they all spoke fluent English (except maybe the bus driver who seemed a little confused).

I'm going to do a few posts on all my favourite bits about Berlin starting with the hotel :)!

We stayed in an unreal hotel - Radisson Blu, Berlin. It was situated just next to the Tv tower, Alexander platz and bang in the middle of about 4 different winter markets. It has the most amazing cylindical aquarium in it's reception (the biggest in the world as far as I'm aware).
It also has a 24hour gym (which surprisingly my boyfriend managed to make me use - I hate exercising).
We arrived pretty late our first night, so we got food (the oh so cultural McDonalds - which my boyfriend likes to try in every country because it's different - questionable I know.) Then pretty much went straight to bed ready to explore the next day.