Maritim Proarte Hotel Berlin

... at the tarnished bronze statues, now green from the tyranny of time. Once again, it was the churches that were the most beautiful. I took photos just for my mother, who is now sick of seeing churches.<br><br>I am on a very tight budget, but after some little white lies, I got into the national museum for student prices, 4 euro. It only gave me access to a portion, but that was all I needed. The exhibition at the time is from Ancient Greece. Spartan helmets lined ...

... It was an incredibly interesting day we spent at Dachau and it really makes you stand in shock at the horrors that were done there.<br><br>Bekah and I took the bus and train back to the heart of Munich, Marienplatz. After going to Zurich on the same weekend as the gay pride parade, we've discovered we really have a knack for accidentally showing up at huge events. As we walked out of the train station to enter Marienplatz, we discovered that there are ...

... not enough) then go to the Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Broken Star of David) - the exhibition is heart wrenching and beautiful at the same time. Health warning: every story attached to the things saved or salvaged from this time has a very sad ending putting faces and names to just a few of the millions of people who died. I spent only a few hours there and needed to leave as it got to be mentally draining. Bebelplatz (the square) where the Nazi book ...

... if you like nice, heavy, German foods...which we do. I'm attaching photos of our hotel room--yes that is the shower in the middle of the room!  Also, we took a short walk down to Alexanderplatz where the recognizable Berlin Tower sits.  Also, we walked by the river Spree.  It was just a beautiful, cool October day and a wonderful to take for a few miles.  Tomorrow, we go on a bike tour of Berlin.  More news and photos tomorrow night.

... We spent quite a bit of time at the Nazi Topography of Terror which is a open air museum in the former HQ of the Nazi Gestapo and SS. We also visited the underground museum at the eerie Memorial to the Murdered Jew which was informative but at the same time very sad. It terrible to think that 5 - 6 million Jews were exterminated during WWII. To lighten things up we took a walk up the glass dome at the Reichstag or the old parliament house which gives a 360 ...

... at an American style restaurant before we went to their show. They were so funny. We really enjoyed their show !!Afterwards they came out for about 10 minutes, that's how Matt got a photo with one of them. The show finished around 9pm so we took a short stroll around the city. During this time we found the Sony Centre and LegoLand (which was closed). So we decided to visit there the next day....

... tour group and we tagged along seeing as we really had no idea what everything was about!. The tour took us through the streets of Berlin, snaking around the major tourist spots in old town Berlin. The tour touched on remnants from the War, but in particular the 80s-90s with the ride and fall of the segregation between East and West Germany. We learned quite a bit about this wonderful country, and ...

... cafes. Outside the buildings, running along a section where the wall used to be is a small exhibit detailing certain things to do with the wall. I was not aware that the wall, was infact, a wall, and a no-mans-land on the eastern side, and thus took up more room than a thin wall like that actually would. I'll come back and finish this post off soon. I'm only halfway through our first day here! We're moving to another hostel on the eastern side of Berlin and we must organise that. Jules

... was eventually decided to head to a bar that one of us had heard of, so we cabbed it over there. Well, there was a HUGE line. At least 200 people. One of the guys walked up to the bouncer, said some magic words, and he let us in because we were Canadian. I loved how everyone became "Canadian". Anyways, it was crazy busy inside, and we stayed for a little bit before calling it a night and cabbing it home.

The Schloss was built between 1869-1886, making it younger than the 400 year castle we're living in at the moment. It was built in the style of the 10/12 century, so it seems much older. We went for a tour inside and it really is beautiful, and incomplete. King Ludwig's bedroom alone took carpenters in ...