Frankfurter Allee - Alexa (the biggest miniature railway in the world) - Hermannplatz - Catriona and Marlene and Anu and home

Today, we all slept in (8.30am, if you wondered) Rudy and I had a date to go and buy some breakfast bakery stuff, and post eating Chris and I made a kind of plan to find the biggest miniature railway in the world.

Alexanderplatz was our destination stop and after some post U-Bahn head scratching, bambouzled wanderings we had a lovely exchange with some east coast USAers (sorry my transatlantic pals for huge generalisation - they were definitely east coast and definitely lovely and definitely as lost as us!)

We wa(o)ndered around the vague massive area that I thought the miniature place would be, until resigning to return to A-Platz satiated not by micro worlds. And then I saw the sign on the side of Alexa a giant red department store that I photographed when I was last here in March. Anyway, off we went to this strange small place, nestled in an overpriced top floor hideaway.

This is Alice (after trying to pull a chimney off the Reigchstag) trying to climb into the Airport, which had impressive planes 'taking off' and 'landing' into and from giant wadding/cotton wool clouds.

Wow. tomorrow the park.