- Most amazing breakfast at our castle hotel - breads, cheeses, meats, scrambled and fried eggs, chocolate cake, etc.
- We sat out on the patio together - best breakfast food was the coconut pudding although surely unhealthy
- Quick drive to Quedlinburg, a UNESCO world heritage site
- Explored castle and church grounds - VERY OLD
- Mark and Dale G went into the church - it was very austere, not a lot of decorations
- The church made some big claims about their relics - vials with hairs for Mary and Mary Magadalene, urn from wedding at Cana
- The urn was legitimately very old and from that era, but probably not from the wedding at Cana
- Walked around the town - lots of cobblestone and quaint buildings
- Not many international tourists - shops and such catered to German old ladies
- Market square was very busy with food trucks, much more affordable than Switzerland
- After a nice long walk we drove to Berlin (about 2.5 hours)
- Met up with everyone and took photos in front of their old houses
- Got spaghetti eis at Mexicoplatz AND a passionfruit kugel (ice cream)
- Drove to the AirBnb, then all the rental cars were returned and we got transit passes instead - Mark felt FREEDOM!
- Went with Mark's parents to the Berlin Wall memorial - it was sobering
- Showed pictures of people killed crossing into the west, including kids aged 2 & 6
- Both inner & outer walls are intact, the memorial is built on the grounds of the old death strip
- Got dinner at an Asian place in one of the train stations - tasty and reasonably priced
- Was an exceedingly hot day so our AirBnb was hot and we had to leave our window open - a guy came out smoking right outside our window at 3 AM and also talking on his phone in Russian. Not cool.
- Our window is ridiculously long and awkward to open and close
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| Outside the city wall of Quedlinburg |
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| Quedlinburg: home of cobblestone and quaint buildings |
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| Inside the church |
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| Stained glass in the church |
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| The church is VERY OLD |
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| Cute caterpillar |
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| Restroom build into the wall |
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| Fountain in the center of Quedlinburg |
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| Cool building so we had to take a picture |
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| Hugo's first encounter with Spaghetti Eis |
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| Berlin Wall |
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| This has been painted over, but it's pretty cool artwork |
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| Memorial of those killed at the wall. Note the little kids. :( |
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| Hugo likes public transit! |
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