Last autumn I decided to go on a trip to visit some of the friends I made when I was an au pair in England. And as I promised before, here are some of my experienses from when I was travelling around in Germany and the Czech Republic. My trip lasted for more then three weeks, and altough I did all the travelling on my own I spent most days with my lovely friends!
Berlin was my first stop and I got there really early in the morning. Nothing really was open yet, so I sat down on a bench and ate my breakfast sandwiches that I had brought with me from home. After a while a coffee shop opened and I bought myself a cup of tea to go with my breakfast.
After 9 my dear friend Pauline came and we went around in Berlin doing some sightseeing, before we went to Bernau - a lovely little town outside Berlin - I loved it! Paulie had to go to work, but I stayed in Bernau to run some errands, important things like buying a German Sim-card and checking out the range of gluten free products.
I went to a supermarket EDEKA center close to a shopping mall. At first I had some difficulties in finding were in this big supermarket I could find what I was looking for. But then, a BIG shelf full of gluten free goodies! I filled my basket. Then I continued to look around in the shop and after a while I realised something that made me very happy, as a coeliac person, on the price tags there was a gluten free symbol on the products not containing gluten!!! VERY helpful to me who doesn't speak any German at all, especially when it came to sausages, yoghurts and other things where they might hide gluten. Why can't supermarkets have that everywhere?!??
Happy with my gluten free findings, I went to a cafe and had a coffee before I took the bus to Lobetal where Paulie and her family lives. I was shown to where I was staying, in an overnight apartment close to the church where Pauline's parents work, I was so tired I had to take a little nap.
I had a lovely home cooked gluten free dinner with Paulie and her family. When I went to bed that night I was dead tired, but very pleased with my trip so far!
To be continued...
Love Erika
Berlin was my first stop and I got there really early in the morning. Nothing really was open yet, so I sat down on a bench and ate my breakfast sandwiches that I had brought with me from home. After a while a coffee shop opened and I bought myself a cup of tea to go with my breakfast.
After 9 my dear friend Pauline came and we went around in Berlin doing some sightseeing, before we went to Bernau - a lovely little town outside Berlin - I loved it! Paulie had to go to work, but I stayed in Bernau to run some errands, important things like buying a German Sim-card and checking out the range of gluten free products.
I went to a supermarket EDEKA center close to a shopping mall. At first I had some difficulties in finding were in this big supermarket I could find what I was looking for. But then, a BIG shelf full of gluten free goodies! I filled my basket. Then I continued to look around in the shop and after a while I realised something that made me very happy, as a coeliac person, on the price tags there was a gluten free symbol on the products not containing gluten!!! VERY helpful to me who doesn't speak any German at all, especially when it came to sausages, yoghurts and other things where they might hide gluten. Why can't supermarkets have that everywhere?!??
Happy with my gluten free findings, I went to a cafe and had a coffee before I took the bus to Lobetal where Paulie and her family lives. I was shown to where I was staying, in an overnight apartment close to the church where Pauline's parents work, I was so tired I had to take a little nap.
I had a lovely home cooked gluten free dinner with Paulie and her family. When I went to bed that night I was dead tired, but very pleased with my trip so far!
To be continued...
Love Erika
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