6th January - Berlin
Trip Start
Dec 26, 2008
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Trip End
Jan 26, 2009
Berlin,
Germany
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
We enjoyed the view over Berlin for a while then went to the cafe and had the world's most expensive coffee.
Darren had discovered that the Museum of Natural History had the world's largest skeleton of a dinosaur - a brachiosaurus -, so we walked there as it was on the same street along which we had walked to the hotel when we arrived in Berlin. The museum was pretty cool and had many skeletons of dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Diplodicus, a stegosaurus like creature and a host of others along with some "Walking with Dinosaurs"-like footage
Behind the Reichstag
. We explored the rest of the museum and were most impressed with the cosmos display and the universe video display and the mineral museum was also pretty good. Leaving the museum we followed the old route of the wall along the Spree river and then crossed Unter Den Linden and went via St Hedwig's Cathedral to Nickolaikirche and walked around the square loooking at all the old apartments. A restaurant was advertising beef, red cabbage, potato dumplings and gravy which sounded pretty good so in we went for a big feed along with a couple of wheat beers. Superb.
Upon consulting the Berlin essentials in the Lonely Planet guide we found that Darren had not been to East Side Gallery, a 1.3km stretch of the wall located near Ostbahnhof. As we still had some daylight we made our way there, then wandered off the wrong way but then retraced our steps and found it. We wandered along, took some photos and got increasingly frozen before making our way back to the apartment again.
We spent the evening thawing out, writing this and reading, then headed out for a quick kebab dinner as close to the hotel as we could manage. It was yummy. Penny has come around to the whole kebab idea, and Darren says out of the hundreds he has eaten in his life, the last two have been the best.
