Master plan was to re-visit Berlin, then hit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Bremen to review some places, therefore completing my quest to visit all the German Regions.
Secondary mission was to rate a load more beers from Bremen to push my totals up.
All objectives were met:
I have now reviewed somewhere in every Bundeslander. (I managed 12 new reviews overall).
59 new beer rates, 10 were from Bremen.
Berlin was Berlin and as always great fun, visited some old favourites and found some new places too. Love visiting the city, but the prices are beginning to get higher, even in the local bars/kneipen, plenty of cheap Spatzi around though!
Schwerin and Wismar in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are pretty towns, not really beer destinations but we managed to drink plenty of beers while wandering around like normal tourists.
Bremen was hard work. Becks Brewery seem to have cornered the market with their beers everywhere. Bremen bars don’t open on Sundays or Mondays (very few anyway), so we struggled to find any new rates until the Tuesday.
We spent an afternoon and evening at the huge Freimarkt, but again Becks (and some of their friends) monopolised the choices; we did find a bar selling Andechs Dunkel Double Bock though, so not all bad.
No @Grumbo, we flew cheapo with Ryanair with just a small cabin bag (less than ÂŁ50:00 return for both of us, Standstead to Berlin, coming back from Bremen). That was the cheapest part of the holiday!