Day 6

Day 6 We started by taking a suburban train (S-bahn) to Potsdam. We bought a day Berlin ABC pass for all zones for E7.90, which is valid for all public transport. When we got to the Potsdam train station, we were told to take bus 695 to Sanssouci, but we’d have to wait 20 min. A nice elderly lade explained to us in abundant German that we can take bus 605 or 606 and get off at the Neues Palais and walk 2 km through the park to Sanssouci. So that’s what we did. The Sanssouci park is huge and contains several castles. Neues Palais is the largest, but there is also the Charlottenhof, the Orangerie and Sanssouci, the summer residence of Fredrick Wilhelm II, which we visited. It was lovely. Then we had trouble finding a bus to take us back to the train station, but we remembered the German lady’s suggestion to go to Luisenplatz and take a bus from there. Potsdam is a very pretty city and we wished we had planned to spend more time there. It has a many other historical sites and a great location close to several lakes. After our return and a short rest we went to the Berlin Mall. We shopped until we dropped and then found an authentic Bavarian restaurant for dinner.