Flashback Friday – A park lane to Neues Palais

Last year when visiting Berlin, I took a day trip to Potsdam.  From the train station, Potsdam Hauptbahnhof, I walked to the Neues Palais.  I love wandering in unfamiliar places for the surprising things I find along the way.  At one point, I turned away from the busy street at a park gate.  When I came through, this quiet scene was waiting.  It was an entrance to the extensive grounds of the palace.  I walked through these grounds and the surrounding parks for the Sanssouci Palace for several hours, including a long nap beside a pond.  The palaces weren’t my cup of tea but these parks had a manicured charm that I enjoyed immensely that day.