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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 – Post #3 (Wow, today has been a busy day!)

Good evening!

Fernsehturm - Berlin's TV tower

Brandenburg Gate

Just wanted to update on dinner this evening (mainly so I won’t dream about it like I did last night).  First, we took the U8 to Alexanderplatz to see if we could find someplace to eat.  And, while there were places, none of them looked really good to us.  So, we got on a TXL bus to the Brandenberger Tor (Gate) because I wanted to see it at night.  And it was beautiful!  We got some nice photos, then decided to get the bus back to our hotel, and try someplace else locally.

Margaret & Bear at the U.S. Embassy

Bear at the U. S. Embassy

Front door of the U.S. Embassy

Block House restaurant

However, as we were looking for the right bus stop, we stumbled first upon the American Embassy (see photos) and then on the British – and, right across the street, was a restaurant called Block House.  It looked nice, so we headed in – and yum, the food was great!  We both had almost the same thing.  We ordered filet mignons (rare) – and they certainly were that!  They also came with a great salad, baked potato in sour cream and garlic bread.  Robert had vanilla ice cream with hot red fruits (raspberries) and I had a slice of their wonderful cheesecake with a raspberry sauce…yippee!!

Then back to the 200 bus back to Alexanderplatz, and finally the U8 to the hotel.  It is now 9:39 p.m. and we are tucked in for the night!!

More tomorrow – and I promise there won’t be three posts tomorrow!

m

Salad

Filet, baked potato and garlic bread

Ice cream with hot raspberries

Cheese cake with raspberry sauce

xxx

Addendum from RJB: In our travels, we have occasionally come across cities that have sponsored a form of street art, consisting of numerous fiberglass figures, each painted by a different artist.  Toronto, for example, did this some years ago featuring moose figures, which were all over town.  We have now seen two bears, including the one in the U.S. Embassy, that look like Berlin's version of the genre.