It was a big Airbus A340 with screens for books, music and films, and they handed out disposable headphones. I only used my screen to watch the flight map :D It reminded me of my first flight, from Saigon to Hanoi on Vietnam Airlines after cycling across Vietnam in 2017. That had been a big plane too, and back then I thought all planes had screens 😇
They served food an hour or two into the flight. I woke up after they’d finished, so I didn’t get any :D They’d have brought me a tray if I’d asked, but I wasn’t hungry and went back to sleep.
The meal before landing. It was good 🙈
After more than 13 hours of flight we landed in Frankfurt, the first time I've been on a long flight like this I didn't feel very uncomfortable, most of the time I was sleeping, there were 6 toilets on the ground floor but sometimes I had to queue: D
Get off the plane, follow the Lufthansa app guide, you fly on to Berlin, on it is the detailed travel information, how to get to the gate of the next flight. I mistakenly saw the arrival gate of the previous flight as the boarding gate of the next flight, sitting and sitting a while only to discover, hurry hurry from B23A to the gate on the plane A18, these two doors are quite far, have to queue for the bus takes 10 '. The first time I've connected this short and I've had to go through the border, I've been about an hour late, almost late the third time. Normally, you'd enter at the end of Berlin, but on the European side, you'll enter at the transit point.
In the immigration area, most of the people are old, they also give me first, and I say for those in front of me, then there was a man who said he was also delayed so I did not get first, standing a while that man told me to get first: D
At the customs, I said I was going on a trip, he asked me why I was going, I was in a hurry so I couldn't answer until later, he said I was on vacation, asked me for a ticket and stamped it.
Before leaving I was worried, if I flew more than 13 hours and did not get in, it was sad 😇 now I have successfully entered, no need to wait for flights to Berlin to enter anymore.
Boarding time to Berlin
It's over an hour to Berlin, and it's 8:30 on the German side.
Arrives Berlin Brandenburg Airport at 9:45.
In Vietnam I calculate buying single ticket will be cheaper than a day ticket, because the first day not used to buy a day ticket 12.3 €. Public transportation is quite complex, with the U-Bahn (underground), S-Bahn, both underground and on the ground, trams, RE trains, IC trains, CE trains, ICE trains. Because it is a federal republic, each city has its own public transport ticket booking app, in Berlin using VBB or using an app DB I also found tickets in the cities. I've spent a lot of time learning about public transportation here. Going from the airport to the center costs 5 €, going between the sights I thought that it was not more than 12.3 € but it seems I was wrong 😋 because going alone is not cheap either.
And another thing is that going on public transport here in the city no one checks tickets, going between cities is more frequently checked than every trip you are checked, if you are caught stealing tickets you will be fined 60 € and of course put on the blacklist, because this side prioritizes self-consciousness and honesty of everyone.
If purchased through the app, the ticket will be valid from the time of purchase. If you buy tickets at a ticket machine, you have to validate the ticket before you go to such machines, if you are caught not valid ticket before then you will be fined.
The first train in Berlin did not go, every few minutes there was a notification that the train was being repaired, sitting about 20-30 'and the train still did not run so take another train, RE train but also great, looks a little bad outside but has two floors, go smoothly.
Get off at Alexanderplatz station because there is the clock tower and the television tower. Can anyone spot Hanoi, Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Jakarta? :))) I hadn’t even heard of these two landmarks when I was planning the trip.
I didn't believe I was in Germany until I saw the yellow tram, enjoy this moment 😎
A little further on, I crossed over to Museum Island. The Berliner Dom looked huge from outside. I think the ticket was about €10.
I'm wondering why I didn't get inside because I didn'ts have the money.
I walked 2km to the Brandenburg gate, and I don't know why I got a day ticket and walked in the sun instead of taking the tram:D
The automatic check-in machine, which in this place there is no cell phone signal so you can not see the booking information, out there there is a network only to enter again. After check-in there is information about the bed with the password to the house, so great.
This is walking out to buy water at the convenience store near the hostel, 1L bottle costs 5€ 😇
At 6:30pm, I got a day ticket to the Olympic Stadium at sunset, so I took the train to see the sunset.
I walked around the stadium to find the entrance and it was all closed, there was a house that sold tickets and it was closed because I was late.
It was a long day but we didn't stop there, we took the train back to the Brandenburg gate for the evening shot. People are going out here for a walk but not as many as walking street in Vietnam: D. I'll go out and listen to music and take some pictures and then go to my room.
I got home at 10:00 and I've already turned off the lights and gone to bed.
From the trip Germany & Switzerland. Read the Vietnamese original on Blogger
