We were rather sad to leave Mara, Anja (ahn-yuh), and Anne (ahn-uh) in the morning at the train station in Munich. But we wanted to get to see some of Berlin on our honeymoon, and we wanted to end our honeymoon just the two of us, so we left from our awesome time in Munich and said goodbye.

We rode the train all day – about a 7 hour trip from Munich to Berlin.
If you haven’t ridden in the nice car on a fast train going through Europe, it’s an experience you simply must have. In the U.S., our commuter trains just aren’t the same, and having not (yet) traveled on an Amtrak train, I can’t compare that to what we experienced on the German rail.
It was such a smooth, quiet ride, and easy to read a book the whole time, or just lean the chair back and close the eyes for a little. We had also brought lunch along from the pizza we had the previous evening, so we were able to pull that out and grab a nice bite to eat while watching the German countryside.
We arrived at the train station in Berlin (which is a nice, cool, modern (and multi-level – don’t ask me how that works with big heavy trains) train station), and took a taxi to our hotel.
I’ll tell more about the hotel tomorrow.