This weekend we did something I had thought about doing for a while and something on the spur of the moment.

On Saturday, before buying our regular newspapers, we ventured to the zoo area and paid a visit to the aquarium. From the S Bahn station we took the "wrong" way but going the long way around to the aquarium entrance meant we walked around the boundary of the zoo. Unlike Bristol zoo, in Berlin even from outside you can see several types of animals. We recognised elephants and giraffes (who wouldn't!) as well as llamas, donkeys and flamingos. There was even a properly constructed viewing area outside the zoo to see the llamas and it looked as if these particular llamas could not be seen by the people paying to visit the zoo.

The aquarium was pretty good with lots of fish , reptiles and insects (including a mock-up kitchen complete with cockroaches!).

On Sunday we had planned to visit a church we had not been to before and we entered the address into Tom-Tom and got there and parked ten minutes before the service started. Then we realised that the (English) church had moved and a German congregation now met there. Unfortunately, the English church information I had was outdated and we now have the new address so maybe next week. Since we didn't know what else to do we drove over to Potsdam's Sansoucci Castle for a walk. We had been there before but this time explored a part of the garden we had not been in before.

Here's the picture record of the weekend....