Day 2: Guest Blogger (AMLAP)

I am so very honored to be the very first guest blogger on 'Brian as Rx'. ;)

Berlin day 2:
Today's adventure WOD was........ walk. AMLAP (as many locations as possible) in 1 day.

We started out with breakfast at the legendary Einstein's cafe. Round 1 consisted of a cafe au lait (Sonja), a cafe latte (Brian) and 2 Herbed omelets with mushrooms, sheep cheese and fresh arugula, all nestled on a slice of fresh baked olive bread.

Round 2 began with our first experience on the U-Bahn headed toward Schloss Charlotten (Charlottenburg Palace). Once there, we spent too many Euros on the self guided audio tour of the Old Palace. Best room in the house: the Porcelain room. You can save yourself a trip and see it via Google. Most of the palace was destroyed in WWII - so it is largely reconstructed - which was a bit disenchanting. Schloss down, we ticked off the first touristy thing of our trip.

For round 3 we stopped off at another coffee shop near the palace just as the freezing rain began and planned out the remaining locations. We hopped back on the subway toward the famous shopping center nick-named KaDeWa. It's a huge 7-story department store; like Bloomingdales on steroids. Brian dorked out over the insane amount of chocolate truffle varieties and what girl wouldn't love window shopping boots. A fun experience but a little spendy for ballers on a budget.

Next stop was Rogacki, an incredible market full of meat, seafood and cheese. The best part was they also had communal food courts where the delightful, multitasking staff served up fresh food. Both of us committed our very first social faux pas. Over a bowl of fish soup - Brian got a spoon literally shoved into his hand by a staff member who was miffed that he dipped his bread in the soup broth. I got called out for taking picture of fish without asking for their permission first. Of all the times to not speak Fishy.... Oh well.

We lost count of our AMLAP reps after the 3rd kaffee but the highlights are- hunting for sub-$50 Euro hats, (thanks H&M), a visit to Stilwerk (a modern design wet dream), more coffee, a beautiful photo gallery, a book store, a Nutella crepe from a local Christmas market and our very first Currywurst.

It was a great team effort. See you soon with details from our next adventure.

For time.
Sonja