Breakfast in Berlin! Happy Husband explores Berlin on his own for five days, and finds a local cafe near Alexanderplatz for Thursday breakfast.
Only later he realizes that the "German" breakfast he's enjoyed is actually the "French" -- Franzosisches -- breakfast. Nonetheless, there's a Deutches spin to the platter -- gherkins and a boiled egg! Artfully displayed and tasty, the meal does its trick, and he's off for another adventure around the city.
Highlights of the visit include a day at the air museum and a visit to St Mary's Church -- St Marienkirche, in what was East Berlin, where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached in 1964, only three months before receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, 
A walk through the sombre Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe -- on a cold February morning. How many murdered Jews might each block represent to reach 6,000,000?
"Discovering" new impressionist paintings in the Alte Nationalgalerie -- Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin. A new favourite: Fritz von Uhde's "Heideprinzesschen," 1889 -- brought home as a bookmark for Wonderful Wife in London. 
Is that really McDonald's next to Checkpoint Charlie!? -- a slice of America for the tourists who don't want gherkins and hard boiled eggs for breakfast. 
All in all quite a different experience than Wonderful Wife's visit to West and East Berlin as a teenager in 1971. A hopeful reminder that human walls can come down. Thought the Trabants scurrying along the boulevards are a reminder of a different past.
"I look forward to going back"" Happy Husband concludes, looking forward to another Breakfast in Berlin.
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