This was my first visit to Berlin. We stayed in a once fancy hotel in Mitte (formerly east Berlin), probably built during the east-west unification in anticipation of tourist trade. It’s previously state of the art gym and pool consists of a small room, akin to a cupboard, with a treadmill and elliptical and a basement plunge pool. No, I wasn’t about to embrace a healthy change, I was just being curious, ok, nosey. On our afternoon arrival ‘we’ decided to go enjoy some local libation and catch up with Alan’s parents, who we hadn’t seen for nearly 4 years. After passing a few hours, and beers, in the local ‘summer of culture’ square (read forum for street performers) we returned to the hotel to freshen up before starting our adventure. However an Alan adventure was
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