Saving the Best Till Last

Well, we are at the end of a 5 night stay in Berlin, and also at the end of the Eurail leg of our trip (no more trains!) We arrived here via Hamberg, which was OK but which neither of us was too enthused by. Lucky we were only there 2 nights.
Here in Berlin we are staying in a fantastic (and cheap) place - a self serviced apartment in a hostel run by a very friendly and laid back Kiwi! If anyone goes to Berlin we can highly recommend this place. Our first day we took a long walk around the city - if anyone knows Berlin we are staying up past Alexanderplatz and we walked down past it and down Unter den Linden to the Brandenberg Gate - about an hour and a half. Our second day was nice and sunny and we went out to the Berlin Zoo, which was great - by far the best zoo we´ve ever been to (not that we´ve been to that many.) It has heaps of animals - elephants, giraffes, kangaroos, a panda, seals, reindeer, wolves, monkeys and of course Knut (if you don´t know who Knut is look it up.) He´s a year old now and a lot bigger, but still very cute.
The rest of the time has been taking up with sightseeing - there is just so much to do and see in Berlin - it is a fantastic city. Apart from the Brandenberg Gate, we have seen Checkpoint Charlie and the adjoining museum, the Reichstag, Potsdamer Platz, the book burning memorial and the Wall Victims Memorial, and there have also been numerous Christmas markets to investigate! The average temperature has been zero degrees - so cold.
Tomorrow we fly to Estonia where our twosome becomes a foursome. To everyone who has requested photos, they will go up on the blog early January when we return to our new home!