Ikea

As our naughty dog has decided to make modifications to the bedspread, we had to go get another one. An identical one from Ikea.

There are four Ikea's in Berlin, with the nearest one being at Tempelhof.

We took the S-Bahn, getting out of the Sudkeuz station. I had memorised how to get to Ikea from the station but this was not needed. The way there was well signed right from the station, with big signs in German showing the Ikea logo and pointing the way to go. Even outside of the store they treat us like we are in a rat run!

Ikea itself was unsuprisingly just like every other Ikea.

Inside it was very busy. We weren't sure whether this was because of the sale that was going on, people starved of not being able to be shopping over Christmas or if it is just always like that.

Lots of stuff was on sale, and we picked ourselves up a few things we wanted for our apartment. This included a coffee table to replace the makeshift one we've been using so far. We found the bedspread we needed and this unfortunatly was not on sale...full price...49 euros. Grrrrr Barney.

Next to Ikea is a McDonalds so we went for a snack. McDonalds often does country specific specials, and I went for its Nurnburger (3 Nurnberger sausages in a burger...get it?). Nordine got a cheeseburger, pfft how common.

Part of our re-location to Berlin has been working out what each of the supermarket chains have on offer. There are quite a few main ones (Aldi, Norma, Kaisers, Netto, Rewe, Reichelt) and one we hadn't been to yet was Kaufland.

Kaufland was also in the area so we went to check it out. This particular one (not sure if they are all the same) was huge, easily the biggest market we have been to in Berlin so far. 

We really like seeing what new things are on offer for us at overseas supermarkets and this one was a good one. We had to play it conservative though as we weren't too close to home and also had all our Ikea stuff with us.

We got what we needed, and a couple of extras, and a new jacket for Barney. OK so it wasn't quite as conservative as planned. 

We were now closer to a U-Bahn than the S-Bahn so went looking for that to get home. I love how there are multiple ways to get around here in Berlin. We jumped on the U-Bahn (U6 - Templehof), switched over to our local U1 and got off at our Warschauer Station. Too easy.

Back at home we showed Barney our new purchases and he was most happy with his new jacket.

I put together the new coffee table.

And then we put it to use....we've missed being able to do this.