Berlin to Hamburg

Today we drove from Berlin to Hamburg.

We picked up the rental car near our hotel about 9am. After familiarising ourselves with the vehicle, and packing our bags in, we left. The roads in Berlin were very quiet, which made navigating the roads easy.

It's Christmas Eve and we expected it would either be crazy busy like New Zealand would be, or extra quiet. Turns out all shops close at midday here so it's quiet. We stopped at a big hardware store for a nosey, it was dead inside and we didn't see much of interest.

We also stopped at a small town just outside Berlin to buy food and drink supplies to keep us going for the next 48 hours. Mostly breads, snacks and drinks.

Then we were on the Autobahn for 2 hours, where there is mostly no speed limit. Check out our speedo in the photo below, not breaking the law!

Once we arrived in Hamburg, we checked into our hotel, then just went for a drive around for an hour or two. just seeing what's around and in particular scanning for any shops open. Everything was closed or just about to. Finding any place selling cooked food was proving impossible. We were looking likely to rely on our supermarket foods.

Helen decided to lookup food on Uber as an indication of what's open. She sound a place called Burger Heroes so we drove there. It was opposite the train station which was a very busy place with people travelling for Christmas. The burger shop was open, we grabbed some food, and they were indeed heroes and the food was amazing. 

With Germany officially closed for Christmas, we parked the car and by 5pm were in our hotel room watching Netflix.