Guten tag! The German language is quickly disappearing from my brain, and that's pretty much all that I can remember. And entschuldigung - excuse me. Such a fun word to say! So onto Berlin!
Berlin
I love this city. It's full of rich history, art (old and new), outspoken and free-thinking residents, and amazing cuisine. And the city is even better when you stay in a luxury, renovated, 1920s art-deco themed hotel: Hotel am Steinplatz. Thanks Mom and Dad!
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| View from courtyard of the gothic windows |
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| Art nouveau doorways |
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| Lovely view from the window |
If the hotel's breakfast didn't close at 10:30am, I think we could have spent half the day in the hotel suite. Luckily, we were forced outside to enjoy the perfectly sunny and 70-degree days. We toured the Reichstag building (Parliament), which ended with a rooftop view of the city:
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| Rooftop stylin' |
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| Dome at the top/center of Reichstag |
And visited the Berlin Wall Memorial, where original wall pieces still stand. (We walked by Checkpoint Charlie too, but it's a recreated tourist-trap.) It's chilling to imagine what life was like on this site only 25 years ago. This November is the milestone anniversary!
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| Berliner Dom (cathedral) |
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| Prost! |
One of my favorite outings was the Berliner Unterwelten tour (Berlin Underworld.) It is a museum in one of the few preserved World War II bunkers created for German civilians. The tour takes you through the rooms, which are filled with artifacts, and the active subway below the bunker creates an eerie soundtrack. The guide claims that the subway train engines make the same noise as low-flying airplanes.
We visited the concentration camp, Sachsenhausen, which was a short train ride outside the city. It was my second time visiting Sachsenhausen, but it was just as powerful as the first. Everyone should see one of these memorials in his/her lifetime.
Aaaaand because it's too depressing to end on that note, and I've been depriving you of cuteness, here is a photo of Cleo after she dragged my new bedroom rug into the living room. What a diva!
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| She's so fancy… |
Stayed tuned for the final installment of the Eurotrip series, Amsterdam!
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