The Princess and the Pea

Those who know me well know that sleep and I have a tenuous relationship. Usually when I go away I take my own pillow with me but on longer trips (and when you are trying to keep your luggage to a minimum) that's not always possible. The hotel beds and pillows have been varied on this trip. There is a tendency here for hotels to use feather pillows, not ths big plump ones, but poor excuses for pillows that when you put your head on one it goes as flat as a pancake. Now you can usually compensate for that by using about three of them together, but when you couple that with a bed that is like sleeping on a plank of wood you have a problem. The NH chain of hotels where I have spent the last three nights is one such place, so my advise is to avoid them like the plague!! We are nw heading for Munich after spending a couple of nights in Berlin and then one in Nuremberg. Along the way we stopped at Leipzig, best known for Bach. Berlin was amazing and another city to which I'd like to return and explore further. We did the highlights, Checkoint Charlie, pieces of the wall etc, as well as a trip to Potsdam. All very recent history.