Traveling in Germany
In May, when we already have a heat wave, and in Europe it still doesn’t smell like it, we decided not to stay at home. For the first time, we traveled not through a travel agency, but on our own. On ef19aff5af; dcid=1&lang=ru found a hotel in Berlin, the H2 Berlin-Alexanderplatz hotel, for some reason I wanted to settle in East Berlin. We liked the hotel, new, modern, nearby HB-Bier-Munich beer, a little more in the direction of Alexanderplatz to go and another VNM brewery, in general, a paradise ...
We are active tourists, so we decided to see as much as possible, but in order to save money, we decided to join groups where possible. We found again on the Internet, well, where would we be without him, the company WELTREPORT, we agreed on everything by phone. With them, we visited Hamburg, Bremen and Dresden and made an overview of Berlin. Bremen is a small, nice city, as for me, so we adults have nothing to do there, but Hamburg and Dresden made a really big impression.
In Potsdam they did not have a group for our dates and we decided to turn to our friend the Internet again. We found several guides, but purely intuitively chose Lydia Mayer. If she had not immediately answered our call, we would probably have searched further, but this did not happen and we are very happy. We met near the Reichstag, we were ordered to visit the dome (every Soviet person is obliged to take the Reichstag). The pickup was scheduled for 11 o'clock, but Lida said that it was too late to go to Potsdam at 12 and that you can climb the dome at any time, the main thing is to explain everything at the entrance : ) Well, of course, knowing only Russian, explaining everything to the Germans is not a problem. In short, Lida volunteered to help us as a translator. I don’t know what she explained to them there (her version is the main thing to smile), but they themselves offered her to come with us, we, in turn, did not refuse. Knowledge is an inexhaustible well.
I really liked that she supported the historical facts with interesting stories, anecdotes, and most importantly, all this with a soul. I am really aware that we are not the first clients, but she did it as if she was just waiting for us to share her knowledge. Near the Reichstag, she talked about the war in such a way that our women even shed tears, and I got goosebumps, because my grandfather fought as a war correspondent. He almost reached Berlin, was wounded on the Seelow Height.
In general, the girl is well done. After her tour, we realized how unlucky we were with all the previous guides. There is such a thing as a "professional guide", everyone understands it in their own way. For example, I associate it with guides in Soviet museums, a middle-aged aunt with a nasty voice and an absent face repeats the learned material and she doesn’t give a damn whether they listen to her or not, whether it’s interesting to anyone or not.
But after a tour with Lydia, I realized that a “professional” is when you pay a person money and at the same time feel that you don’t want to part, that she is like family to you, that you are interested in her and that you want to meet again, even if just chat.
This is the kind of trip we had.
