It was an easy process to eat breakfast and get packed up ready to be picked up at the hotel and taken to the airport.
I checked out paying for the three beers we had each had on our return to the warm hotel after eating out and they proved to be extremely reasonable. We were settled in the lounge when at exactly the appointed time our driver appeared to pick us up.
We found ourselves in the minibus heading out of the city with two of the people who had come in with us. A mother and daughter pairing who had also enjoyed Berlin very much, we had several similar experiences but there were different things which we had done this confirmed to us that Berlin would be worthy another visit in future.
On our walk to the restaurant on the first evening we had thought that the area we were in was no the best, as we drove through the region this was confirmed amongst the generally run down shops there were a high proportion of sex shops and massage parlours.
We reached the airport early and made the mistake of passing through the first layer of security before the Ryan Air desks were open for our flight, we camped out on the floor in the absence of any seating in the area and after 45 minutes we were well placed to join the check in line for our flight. I have never before been the first in such a line.
Check in was painless but the similar bag, weighed by my hand held luggage scale to be 14.5Kg, now registered 13.9 on the airline scales where it had been slightly over the 15kg weight coming out – there is no logic to this but we were not asked for excess baggage in either direction.
We read our books in a concourse and at last the gate was announced to be the furthest from the point we had chosen. Despite having to queue twice more we were able to get our hand luggage into the locker and had reasonable seats.
On our return to East Midlands Airport we picked up our car and were home by mid-afternoon.
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