We decided after writing the previous blog entry that Sioned wouldn’t be too good going for breakfast in the tower, so Sioned said that I should go on my own. I thought that some night time photography from there would be pretty spectacular. I wasn’t wrong. It costs 8 Euro to get in and it’s open to anybody. The lift takes you up to just over 200m. It can only be described as mind blowing. If you’re ok with heights, it’s one of the places you have to do. It’s the third largest tower in Europe and really does offer amazing views over Berlin. I’d done the balloon the previous day, and seen some other towers as well. Absolutely nothing on this place. I was up there for about an hour, just looking across Berlin.

Sioned was waking up quite a bit in the night – she’s worse today than yesterday, but that’s not all bad since we weren’t aiming to do much today anyway. It took about 2.5 hours to get from Berlin to Hannover – the A2 was pretty quick most of the way with an occasional burst up to 120mph. Once in Hannover, the hotel wasn’t too difficult to find. As soon as we got here, we had a look at stuff to do. I’ll be honest – there’s very very little. The only real thing that took our fancy was the Sealife Centre. We dropped some bits off in the hotel room and headed straight back out again and found that everyone else had the same idea as us. The queue was ridiculously long. That idea aborted, it was back again and have a google to see what else there is. The short answer: nothing. The long answer: still nothing. I decided to go and scout out the area to see if this really was the case and also look for somewhere decent to eat. This only came with one condition: absolutely no more Italian. I ended up finding the local bus station and passed about 4 non-suitable-for-various-reasons eateries on the way. Returning back with the bad news, we considered our options: A) Eat at the hotel B) Ask reception C) Pick one of the places we’d already discounted D) Get in the car and drive around randomly until we find somewhere passable.

We chose D. After about 10 minutes driving, we happened on what seems to be a Spanish and/or Mexican area of Hannover, with a couple of Tapas places, and a Mediterranean. We opted for a quiet little Tapas which left us absolutely stuffed for the princely sum of 33 Euro. Not bad. We asked the waitress exactly what there was to do in Hannover, mentioning we’d just come from Berlin. Our suspicions were realised: absolutely nothing to do. That said, it is quite nice to not have anything to do and just spend time with each other.

Tomorrow we’re off to Antwerp. Hopefully we’ll be a bit luckier in finding things to do.