Before any good road trip starts, if you can’t find a Timmies, you must find a bakery. That was our first task of the day and boy, were we ever successful! We must have been STARVING going in because I think we ordered one of everything. We didn’t even feel guilty. Or like pigs. We walked out of there with our hands full and smiles on our faces. I’m also not ashamed to say we finished everything. Not a crumb left over. So delicious!

We sat ourselves down in front of an amazing church to eat our breakfast. We were so impressed by the church facade that we just had to go inside. Again, of course it was stunning. Opulent. Huge. Showy. This was the first time we got to go into a section of the basement though. That was a little bit creepy. We felt like a cross between Nicholas Cage in National Treasure and Tom Hanks in Da Vince Code. On that note, we decided to leave – not only the church, but the very, very cute city of Bamberg. We will come back here for sure!

Jason drove us 4.5 hours to Berlin. Well, that was how long it should have taken us. But, Germany being Germany, we were able to drive a little bit faster than 120km/hr. So, even with the numerous and lengthy construction zones where we were only allowed to do 60-80km/hour, we made it all the way to Berlin in under 3.5 hours. Yep. He shaved a full hour off the recommended driving time. Vroom vroom.

Knowing there was a ton of historical information that we were going to learn about, we decided to start our Berlin experience with food tour. You know, to keep it light and frivolous before getting into the heavy. I will admit that I was concerned about what we were going to be fed on the tour – I am getting a little bit tired of German food. We needn’t have worried! Berlin is a huge city with all kinds of international influences. We got to try a few of the favourites and truly eat like a Berlin local.

First up was a donair. Yep, it was pretty delicious. Donuts, curry sausage (I know, I know, enough with the sausages!), local sodas and a German take on a Spanish frittata. Luckily it was also a walking tour because, holy moly, there was a lot of food!

So far, Berlin has us happily fed, well exercised and properly tired.

Gute Nacht!