Exploring Deutschland!

So for our first free weekend Sarah, Rebecca, Victoria, and I decided to go check out some flea markets, and some local hotspots. To get to our destination we definitely had to learn to read the S-baun map. We had researched some places and just circled them on the map. What we forgot about was that tonight was the first game of the euro cup that Germany plays in, so the flea market that we were headed to that was supposed to be the most well-known, was gone and they were setting up for the game that night. It wasn’t that big of a deal, because we had a lot circled. We just followed the map to the next place, which was the Kreuzberg area. We had been told that the street are was a cool area where many locals go, and had found out that there was a park nearby called Viktoria-Park.

We walked up and down the street stopping along at some of the shops. We found a nifty second hand shop that had everything from high heeled boots to 19th century clothing. We tried on some funny stuff, and Sarah actually found some shorts that she liked. We also went in many basement shops, and shops that had what looked like junk scattered in front of their store. One shop had a table full of forks, spoons, and knives just strew across the table. They even had really old looking tea and coffee grounders and some beer mugs.

For lunch we went to this place called Rueben’s. I had the Orient Rueben’s Flaming Cake, which was similar to pizza. It was on this flatbread and it had ricotta and another type of cheese and some kind of German meat slices and some type of leaf. For dessert we had ice-cream, I don’t know what flavor it would translate to in English, but it was really really good.

Also along Kreuzberg strasse we came across Viktoria-Park, which is a park located right in the middle of this area, but the cool thing is that there is a waterfall in the center that you can climb up. We kind of took a break and relaxed along the falls and took some pictures, and when we made it to the top, we could see a nice 360 view of the city. The park was definately a hidden gem within the city.

Later that night when we made it home, we were watching Germany's first game against Portugal in the Euro Cup, by halftime it was still 0-0, so we decided to head towards the Brandenburg Gate, where they where having a large srceening of the game. We were only there for about 30min, during which Germany score both there goals and won the game, it was intense. We walked through the madness and got some food, and cheered on the team! All in all it was a very exciting and fullfilling day.