{"id":8620,"date":"2023-10-05T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/real-life-fairytale-kingdom-potsdam-germany\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:54:18","slug":"real-life-fairytale-kingdom-potsdam-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/real-life-fairytale-kingdom-potsdam-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Things To Do In Potsdam, Germany: A Magical Day Trip From Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our initial frustrating yet rewarding <\/a>first visit to Potsdam (I know, sounds confusing but have a read of the post here and you\u2019ll understand what I mean…), we returned to Potsdam the next day with all the eagerness in the world and a plan to visit all the major sights in this amazing city!<\/p>\n

Thing is though, when we got to Potsdam from Berlin, we arrived to the thickest fog imaginable.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even think much of it till we arrived at our very first stop \u2013 the Glienicke bridge.<\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that the bridge is one of the sights to see in Potsdam (can\u2019t remember why now), I actually didn\u2019t arrive here for the bridge, I arrived for the spectacular view of Babelsberg Palace across from the bridge. (When we arrived here yesterday \u2013 the water was still and the reflection was beautiful \u2013 alas, you can\u2019t go into the Palace itself as it\u2019s still undergoing renovations<\/a> so the best you can do is the view from here).<\/p>\n

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As you can tell from the photos, with that fog, there was absolutely zero visibility of the Palace. I can even begin to tell you how disappointed we were.<\/p>\n

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This disappointment disappeared totally and was replaced with enchantment as we made our way over to our next sight \u2013 Marmorpalais; The Marble Palace.<\/p>\n

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Sitting eerily across the Lake, this palace was apparently built for the King\u2019s mistress back in the day and is absolutely stunning. Hauntingly so even…<\/p>\n

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I think it was at this point that we realised how much the fog had just transformed Potsdam into an almost mythical fairytale destination.<\/p>\n

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We carried on to our next stop, Belvedere on the Pfingstberg.<\/p>\n

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Wandering around here, that Disney-esque fairytale feeling just grows stronger and stronger. Like if Belle and The Beast just walked out of the fog, I don\u2019t think I would even have flinched for a second.<\/p>\n

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I almost forgot to mention how we got around! Instead of taking a tour today, we hopped into a taxi (like your regular old taxi parked by the train) and asked to be taken to all the sights (I\u2019d made a list of all the places I wanted to visit).<\/p>\n

I figured we paid like \u20ac25-ish each for the tour and so, if the taxi cost came in at say \u20ac50 for the entire trip, it made sense. In the end, the taxi cost came in at, with tips, at \u20ac50 for a 2-hour ride around the city. Our taxi driver was also quite knowledgeable so it just felt like it made so much more sense than the tour we took the previous day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Next stop, we headed over to Alexandrowka, the Russian Colony for a quick gander…<\/p>\n

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…before heading over to The Bornstedt Crown Estate \u2013 one of the Palaces of the Sanssouci Park.<\/p>\n

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Our next stop was one we saw from a distance the day before but didn\u2019t get to visit properly – The Belvedere auf dem Klausberg.<\/p>\n

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Given the foggy weather, we had pretty much all the sights to ourselves \u2013 with a fair number of them being impossible to see from a distance… until, of course, you arrive a lot closer to them.<\/p>\n

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Next up, we walked over to the nearby Dragon House, which is actually a restaurant and would make a great stop for lunch (or even just a drink).<\/p>\n

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Our final stop in the taxi was the orangery, which was pretty empty and desolate, save for a couple other visitors as eager as we were to take in the sight of Potsdam in the fog.<\/p>\n

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With the typically full fountain drained and devoid of people, the Orangery just looked and felt haunting.<\/p>\n

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From the Orangery, it was a fairly short walk to the New Palace\u2013 which we intended on going into, via the beautiful Sanssouci park.<\/p>\n

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It was the first time all day we\u2019d gone on a proper walk and it just felt so magical! Crisp leaves crunching underfoot were the only sounds you\u2019d hear \u2013 broken up by the sound of chirping birds.<\/p>\n

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In our over-eagerness, we decided to take the long route through the park, stopping off at the Chinese Pavillion…<\/p>\n

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…before carrying on to the New Palace.<\/p>\n

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The New Palace almost seemed to creep up on us. The fog just seemed to get thicker and thicker as the sun dipped below the horizon and it wasn\u2019t till we were actually close to the Palace that we saw the lights faintly twinkling through the fog.<\/p>\n

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Alas, by the time we got the Palace, we\u2019d just missed the last entry in (turns out, it was about an hour before the actual palace closed).<\/p>\n

If we hadn\u2019t been in such awe of Potsdam and thoroughly chuffed with being able to see all of the sights we\u2019d missed out the day before, I would have probably been disappointed but having managed to see some of the most gorgeous buildings in the city \u2013 and in such a dramatic setting, we left Potsdam for Berlin in such a high!<\/p>\n

The fog in Potsdam was definitely not what we were looking for when we arrived but had managed to make the magic and mystery of Potsdam come truly alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our initial frustrating yet rewarding first visit to Potsdam (I know, sounds confusing but have a read of the post here and you\u2019ll understand what I mean…), we returned to Potsdam the next day with all the eagerness in the world and a plan to visit all the major sights in this amazing city! … Continue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,396],"tags":[355,528,928],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-travel-journal","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-potsdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justpaste.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}