Berlin day 2 Saturday and Sunday, marathon day

In the morning of Saturday we all left together on the subway, c and I went to a smallish gallery of Modern Art and L and K went to the technology museum. C and I pottered round some quite strange exhibits and some not so strange paintings. The highlight was probably the  morning tea. There were six delicious cakes to choose from. C had a big quandary because cakes were not on her preferred eating list. We went back to our apartment for lunch  and a rest. L and K came back much later after a long fascinating day full of cars, machines of all sorts, planes, trains, etc etc   C cooked for herself ( again, very specific things) and the rest of us went to a Vietnamese place for dinner.

Sunday morning C left early to go to the start of the marathon. I went for a walk soon after, dawnish,  to a bakery with a coffee machine and tables to sit at.  It was about 1.5 km away and the only moving vehicle I saw was a farm tractor chugging along. There are no coffee shops around that open before 9am on any day , let alone a Sunday. We had time to fill in so I took K  back to the bakery through a park.

 The marathon course was  a big loop with   the middle of 1 side closeish to the middle of the other side. L, K and I went to the first of these 2 places. We could see on the tracking app that C had started and we worked out approximately when she would arrive. So we cheered and yelled when she passed us,  looking quite happy. But we could see from her times that she was not going to get the finishing time she was aiming at. We then went to the second place.  And again cheered her on when she passed. Still quite happy but not running as fast as she wanted to. We were pleased she was happy.

Next the 3 of us , me L and K, went on an unexpected and unwanted adventure . We had instructions where to go to meet up with C.  We walked along the end of the marathon route watching and listening to different bands along the way and the continual background noise of people cheering. There was a very festive feeling in the air..We walked to the Brandenburg gate, on the route. Then diverged, following the map to the meeting place but the meeting place was fenced off with people guarding the few places that we maybe could have got through. So we followed the path along the edge of the fence ( along with many other disgruntled people) for several kilometres, then back, but we still could not get near where we were supposed to be . L had rung C and told her to go back to the apartment. We finally got to the subway station and got home. C was very happy and pleased that she had realised that her body was not going to hold up ( she could hardly walk for a large part of last year) so she decided to ease off a bit and enjoy the atmosphere and the amazing buildings and things she was running past. Mind you ,her idea of 'easingoff' still meant that she ran , on average, a kilometre in 5 minutes,  42 times in a row. 

We all went out ( more walking) for a Turkish dinner.  Early to bed for everyone. I walked abou 22 km, K walked about 20 and L about 18.