Goodbye Berlin, Hello Goslar!

It's time to leave Berlin. We had our last breakfast at our

hotel. I had to post some pictures of the type of food

we ate each morning. Certainly not my typical

breakfast. But I can say I have gotten addicted to all

the bread and cheese we have been eating.

The little cups on the right have yogurt, fruit and rice pudding.

I had rice pudding every morning, couldn't get enough of it.

I avoided this table each morning, but being our last day we had

to try a "Berliner." It's the jelly donuts in the middle. Tom said

that John F Kennedy came to Germany and during a speak he

was making a political remark, but said something about

jelly-filled donuts. It became such a joke around Germany

that jelly-filled donuts became a German landmark.

They are really good, like our Krispie Kremes.

The Berlin Zoo

It's a typical zoo

Onto to the train station to go to Goslar.

German's are very proud of how their trains and buses

are very prompt. But today they let us down. Every

train we had to take was late. In fact, one train we

stood on for well over an hour.

Waiting for our last train to Goslar. Great train station!!!

Finally arrived in Goslar. This is a beautiful, quaint town.

Tom served his mission here, in fact was the Branch

President. He was really excited to come back to see it.

Many of the buildings date back to the 1400's. The big

grey building has a glockenspiel that's up on the roof.

Those doors open up on the hour and these statues

come out while music is playing. I took a video but

you couldn't really see it so I will try again tomorrow.

Tom kept talking about a statue he remembered when he

was here over 40 years ago. We kept saying he needed to find

this statue of a boy "pooping out coins." Well wouldn't you know

it, he found it. Tom about screamed when he saw it.

It has something to do with the people thinking that

children bring wealth and good luck to the

family or town. 

That's debatable.

The other thing Tom is obsessed with is finding where

they met for church. It's in one of these buildings with 1400

written on it. That's when the building was built.

We walked up and down these streets and couldn't find

it. But we have all day tomorrow.

One more day in Goslar.

By the way, the weather has been beautiful. Warm in the morning, cools down in the afternoon/evening. We have had rain everyday (it poured during the soccer game). The first day we were here it was very hot and not having air conditioning anywhere was kind of rough, but we couldn't ask for better weather.