Oren, Zaki and I had chosen what we wanted to do beforehand, so on arriving we headed straight for the RiesenRad - Zaki’s choice.
The next day we went to Oren’s choice, Haus Der Meeres.
They both enjoyed having their fingers nibbled and Zaki loved the cheeky baby monkey who kept jumping on his mum.
I think I had expected the sleeper cabin to be a bit more spacious but once we had stuffed all our bags and selves in, it was lovely.
Leon and I got complementary fizzy wine ‘trocken’ and the kids a juice. We spilled the wine and water everywhere, obviously.
There was an assistant on hand to fold down the beds.
As Zaki’s under 6, he didn’t get his own bed, so he was in with me, which was a bit squished. We fashioned some extra room with the suitcase that was wedged in beside us.
Oren in his top bunk:
It was very nice to wake up to the German countryside rushing past and the kids were very happy.
We had ordered fruhstuck the night before. Zaki invented a chocolate burger which was Nutella and salami in a roll. Surprisingly nice, sweet and salty.
Points failure at West Ealing threatened to delay our first journey but we ended up perfectly on time into Paddington.
Eurostar is only 2 hours from London to Brussels. We arrived in Brussels at 4’o’clock and had 3.5 hours in Brussels Midi. Not much to do or many places to sit.
Had some frietjes met…
And waited for the platform announcement.
