Amsterdam to Berlin, Day 6

The train ride to Berlin pretty much looked like this the whole way.

Took the train from Amsterdam to Berlin today...here are some of the cool things we saw along the way, and upon our arrival:
1. Trees thick with snow, and then fields with snow and horses and cows and sheep and even a few miniature ponies, towns and cities, then trees, etc
2. Old, old, old church steeples, and very modern windmills, tall and steel, three arms
3. Fog, all day. And yesterday was the solstice so today light was very short. Dusk-like in the morning when we woke up at 8, dark at 4:30
4. My first impression of Berlin is big, and lots of modern architecture. We're staying in an area (Potsdamer Platz) that was razed to the ground at the end of WW II, and has only in the last ten years really been built up. Berlin has a much more urban feel vs Amsterdam
5. There's a little outdoor Christmas market across the street from us, and they have a pretty good sized tubing hill, steep and icy, with mats at the end to slow you down and a padded wall at the very end. We watched people slide down while eating brats (sausages) from a little stand next door. And they have ice shuffleboard. And instead of one big tree, a bunch tied together and then instead of ornaments big pieces of driftwood and dinner plate-sized pottery on metal stakes of different heights. So essentially a giant rendition of a Christmas tree. So very cool