What to hide in a Dildo

AlexxaVice

Book in our room

Roof top bar Hotel de Rome 

Nuremberg Sausages

Viennese Schnitzel

Goulash with Chanterelle Mushrooms

Kaiserschmarrn Dessert

We had leftover steak from our dinner the night before. I had brought it back to the hotel and we put it in the room refrigerator. In the morning when we went down for breakfast, I brought the steak leftovers and asked the waitress if the chef would use them to make, steak sandwiches for our flight to Berlin. I was inspired, of course by the best steak sandwich in the world, in Japan. You can read about it here.

After breakfast they presented us with the assembled steak sandwich all boxed up and ready to eat. We finished packing, checked out of the hotel, caught a taxi to the airport and proceeded to checking. In the business lounge I opened the package and there was the beautiful steak sandwich. He chose great rolls for it, sautéed mushrooms and dressed the sandwich perfectly. Unfortunately, I had half eaten it when I decided I wanted to take a picture of it.

We were seated in Business Class, and this woman joined us that was outrageously dressed. Her boobs were almost falling out and she was very scantily dressed. I asked her why she was going to Berlin. She replied that she was going to a 3-day orgy. From there she started discussing that she is a British porn actress and showed us photos of her performing all kinds of sexual acts. She actually was quite articulate. She wanted to become twitter friends with us. Her twitter handle if you want to follow her is: @AlexxaVice. She did impart some final advice for us. She said if you ever want to smuggle drugs into a country, hide them inside a dildo, no one ever wants to touch it to inspect. Ah, the wisdom gained while traveling. We wished her well, turns out she is in Berlin attending the Porn Awards in Berlin and she is up for an award! We hope she wins.

We checked into the Hotel de Rome about 5pm, unpacked and went to the roof top bar for a drink overlooking Berlin. Only in Germany would you get the collected works of Goethe as the only book in your room, for night time reading! It gets chilly on the patio, and they provide blankets to keep you warm. It reminded us of the rooftop bars we would go to in Istanbul, where they gave you a selection of shawls to keep you warm. Our neighbor, David had suggested a list of restaurants that we should try in Berlin. On the list was Aigner Gendarmenmarkt. When I looked it up on the Internet, it looked like it had great Austrian food, so not knowing where it was located, I booked it. Turns out it was practically across the street from our hotel. A very short walk.

The food was heavy and filling and tasty. I imagine it is proper Austrian cooking, although since I have never before had Austrian food, I had nothing to compare it with. Scott, Tom, and Guillermo joined us for dinner. Cathy had an excellent Creamy soup from Hokkaido pumpkin with orange and ginger followed by creamy Goulash with Chanterelle Mushrooms and noodles. It was very rich.

I started with Nuremberg sausages served with sauerkraut, mustard and mashed potato, real German food! For a main course I had Viennese schnitzel served with potato bacon and gherkin salad.

For dessert we had the famous Viennese Kaiserschmarrn served with apple sauce, cranberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. The five of us split two bottles of wine followed by a dessert wine. We won’t be able to continue to eat like this in Berlin, or they will charge us extra on the plane we will weigh so much. Tomorrow we will eat lighter.

We will start the day with a walking tour of the city.