Postcard from Berlin – Going Postal

In June 2017 Master Reggie and I decided to go on a ‘lads’ tour of Berlin. Master Reggie had just completed his degree course and Mrs Reggie suggested it was time for some Father and Son bonding.Master Reggie recommended Berlin as he had been there on a history school trip a few years earlier and it was somewhere I was interested in visiting too. Flights from Bristol Airport were booked and a hotel near one of the main railway stations (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) was selected as an ideal base to operate from, due to its central location.Berlin is to the east of Germany with a flight time of under 2 hours from the UK. Our flight passed without incident and we landed at Berlin Schönefeld Airport on time. Berlin has a number of airports, all of which should have closed by now and replaced by one super airport. It is years overdue and massively over budget. Seems the Germans aren’t immune to the same problems which affect us.We made the short walk from the airport to the railway station and took...