Travel Tips

I’m happy to put up our very first guest post! Tracey went to Germany with her husband and baby boy. They rented a residence for part of their stay, and they had a smashing time. Thanks so much for sharing your trip with us, Tracey!
Berlin like a Berliner
Preceding year my man and I took a visit to Germany with our 8-month-old son. We had extended family there and we felt it was a wonderful time to travel – before the small guy could walk or voice his displeasure with the choice of activities.
We knew traveling with a baby was going to be different and we’d have to make some compromises. The tiny guy had a regular routine at home and we made a decision the neatest thing for our trip would be to maintain two key aspects of that schedule. So every day we got to have a calming breakfast while he had a quick morning nap. In the day we saw the sites while he happily cat napped in his carrier. And each night we enjoyed a pleasant home cooked dinner and adult conversation after he went to bed. This worked especially well when visiting with buddies and family.
Our trip included stops in Grunstadt, Chemnitz, Nurenberg, Munich, Berlin and Neuschwanstein in the Bavarian Alps. For most of our trip we were staying with family. Except for Berlin we were on our own.
So we prepared a goedkoop appartement berlijn instead of a hotel. This gave us a kitchen so we’d be able to have a pleasant breakfast every day, and make dinner each night ( although we sometimes had a late lunch out and did not need dinner ). An appartement huren berlijn also gave us a bedroom in which the small guy could retire each night while we ate, played cards, folks watched, and so on.
It was straightforward to find and book a studio at OH Holidays. There had been a wide selection of lofts thru Berlin available for all sorts of budgets. We wanted something in central Berlin and near to the metro with a bedroom, washing, kitchen, crib, high chair, etc.
Our tiny one bedroom flat was on the fourth floor of an old studio block in the former East Berlin neighbourhood of Friedrichshain. The building was one of the few in the area that had survived through WWII and communism and it was full of character. The locale was a real fun eclectic mix of folks and right outside our door were grocery stores, street side cafeterias, restaurants, clubs, shops, coffee, web, etc . In the day it was merely a short metro ride to all the key sites. And we in the evening we enjoyed people watching from our balcony.
It was of course a long walk up those stairs with a baby in a carrier after a dull day of sightseeing and there wasn’t any hotel staff or room service at our beck and call. But we had the liberty to make our own meals, do washing and make ourselves really at home – all at a cheaper price than most hotels. We felt like we were seeing Berlin from a Berliners standpoint.

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