The Lime and the Coconut: Savignyplatz s-bahn station

As I said in the previous post, Savignyplatz s-bahn station is my favourite s-bahn station. Sure there are other, bigger ones, but this one is such a pleasure to ride through or even wait for a train on. We've been here a few times for spielplatz visits, a festival nearby, and of course a trip to the Schwarzes Cafe, home of the most must-see toilets in Berlin! That and it's easier to change trains if you're going far enough west and you happen to get on a train that terminates at Charlottenburg station (which has a layout that I can't quite get my head around).

A lot of the stations in Berlin are decorated with various themes. I still need to take the camera to the Rathaus Spandau u-bahn station, but at least of the stations I've visited I've noticed that the u-bahn stations are a fair bit more likely to be decorated than the s-bahn stations. In contrast, the s-bahn stations are more likely to be modernised. A fair number of them have lifts, for example, even if the lifts are often broken. A word to the wise: if you're going to take advantage of the ridiculously cheap monthly bike tickets with your kids, make sure you can carry more than one bike at a time. One lovely Berliner helped me carry Jill's bike through Zoo Gartens, but sometimes getting around with our bikes resembles that old logic problem of having a boat that will fit three when you need to get a cat, a dog, and a chicken across the river but you can't leave the cat and the dog or the cat and the chicken together alone.