Germany!
We arrived to Berlin late Sunday night and set out in the rain, in search of two things: food and a TV. We ate dinner at an eatery while watching USA lose the Women's World Cup, with a crowd of cheering Germans behind us.
Monday, we did a four-hour walking tour of Berlin, seeing all the sights. Our Australian guide led us through the "amazing and disastrous" history of the city. After the tour, we climbed the dome of a church at Lustgarten, and then went down to Museum Island to see the Babylon's Ishtar Gate; we've officially seen a wonder of the world!
We went to dinner at a German restaurant, but we had to ask our concierge to find a good one. Apparently Germans prefer Chinese and Italian to their own traditional cuisine, but we did enjoy our meal. Then we went out for an organized pub crawl and visited bars and clubs with tourists from all over the world.
Today, we went to Berlin's Jewish History museum, which chronicled the Jews in this region from a millennium ago to the modern day. This afternoon, we did a load of laundry, ate German pretzels and strudel, and, after seeing the movie posters in English, French, Dutch, and German, finally saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part II.
The movie was great, and the cinema was in a really neat semi-outdoor-semi-domed entertainment center, filled with shops and restaurants. Very nice! We got dinner on our way back home, where we had to pack up and get a liiittle bit of sleep before our early morning departure.
We arrived to Berlin late Sunday night and set out in the rain, in search of two things: food and a TV. We ate dinner at an eatery while watching USA lose the Women's World Cup, with a crowd of cheering Germans behind us.
Monday, we did a four-hour walking tour of Berlin, seeing all the sights. Our Australian guide led us through the "amazing and disastrous" history of the city. After the tour, we climbed the dome of a church at Lustgarten, and then went down to Museum Island to see the Babylon's Ishtar Gate; we've officially seen a wonder of the world!
We went to dinner at a German restaurant, but we had to ask our concierge to find a good one. Apparently Germans prefer Chinese and Italian to their own traditional cuisine, but we did enjoy our meal. Then we went out for an organized pub crawl and visited bars and clubs with tourists from all over the world.
Today, we went to Berlin's Jewish History museum, which chronicled the Jews in this region from a millennium ago to the modern day. This afternoon, we did a load of laundry, ate German pretzels and strudel, and, after seeing the movie posters in English, French, Dutch, and German, finally saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part II.
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