The Capri hotel stands a block away from the grandeur of Berlin’s Museum Island, home to the Pergamon Altar and the bust of Nefertiti. Its rooms are grand and this weekend you can expect to pay £400 to stay one night in a deluxe suite with a view of the city. But right now, hanging from the balcony of a penthouse veranda, is an enormous flag of St George with a legend reading: “Sunderland”, “Southside”, “Megawatt” and “Get the rave on”.
The English are coming to Berlin, with as many as 35,000 expected to be in the Olympiastadion when England play Spain in the men’s European Championship final on Sunday night. They are digging deep to get there too. Flights, if you can get them, are starting at €700 (£588) return (some with an overnight stop in Switzerland). Any kind of budget hotel is probably sold out and as for going to the game, well that’s not coming cheap either.
