Active Travel Plans

   Who remembers the Hoffmeister advert from the 1980s, follow the bear? This isn't about that but plenty of bears for you to follow if you want to in this City. But as you see, this relates to a far bigger beast. Much more rested than yesterday but somehow didn't make the day completely restful, far from it. Started off OK with the  Inn buffet breakfast, lots of bacon rolls in my case, not sure where they sit on the athlete diet calculator, but presumably not near the top. Hey ho holiday...  I did go out straight for a run after breakfast which would not be something I normally do on a full stomach, but it worked out OK. Ran down to the embarkment point for yesterdays river cruise, and then ran along the river, crossing over at one point thinking I might be hitting west berlin but it turns out museum island still the east, so think it was an entire east Berlin run.  Turning point was with the Reichstag in the background so wouldn't have been too far away, the c...

    Needed to find a level of recovery today, but in a way that did not eat into our journey of discovery.  Not much in the way of decent sleep and a useful reminder why a few drinks is a rare occurrence these days, you have to get it out of your system once in a while! With breakfast part of the deal at the Park Inn, we made use of the facilities with a bit of immediate hydration in the form of fruit and juice and even fruit juice!  Some cheese and bread made into a sandwich of sorts, with a bit of cake and coffee to round things off.  And then straight to meet our running friends 'at the bear' No time to wallow though, a keen focus with running friends to get us out and about and over to the Berlin Half Marathon expo out at the old airfield in  Templehoff.  (one of the big 3 back in the pre war days, along with Croydon)  A couple of trains got us there, emerging into a bit of a concrete soviet (or Newport lite) jungle at first with little sign o...