Welcome to Berlin
A new craft beer in a new town City Hotel, Kurf ü rstendamm Last week I flew to Berlin for my second visit in three years. The previous trip, with my wife Charita, got off to a bad start. We had just come from four nights in Prague, a beautiful city that we both loved. We travelled by train, a long, disappointingly dull journey and arrived, tired, on the Saturday evening. After a meal in a nearby steak house, that was us done for the night. We got up the next day ready to experience the city and .... Nada! We hadn't realised that virtually nothing would be open on the Sunday. As a consequence we managed one museum, a large flea market and a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. I did squeeze in a couple of pub visits in the next couple of days, to the Hops and Barley in Friedrichshain and the Vagabund Brauerei in Wedding, but it was clear that we didn't have enough time to do justice to such a large and fascinating city. T here was more, much more to see so, with a w