Exploring beautiful Berlin!!!
Trip Start
May 27, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 10, 2008
Berlin,
Germany
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Whelp, time for a great breakfast! Full bellys gave us the energy needed to explore the huge city. Decided that the TV Tower would be a great place to get our bearings. At 271 meters, you could see everything from up there! Berlin is a flat somewhat spread out city, so we were able to lay out some plans for our exploration. We strolled the the park below the tower and through a large Iberian Spanish cultural exposition. Watched some horse demonstrations and saw some major celebrity, complete with bodyguards and spray-on tan. From there we walked down the main street in Berlin to see the Babel Platz, the site where Nazis held book burnings. Nice little square with a moving memorial: A white shelved library room you looked down into from 20 feet above. Very fitting.
Strolled past Museum island and had a great inexpensive meal at a pizzeria under the subway, then on to the Hamburger Banhof contemporary art museum. AWESOME! Saw very important work from the Contemporary Masters like Joseph Beuys, Warhol, Nauman and Rebecca Whitehead. Will take a while to absorb it all...
That night we got an ĻAmsterdam Taxi RideĻ aka side saddle on the cargo rack of a bike, to a club I had wanted to visit. The club is on the 16th floor and they had some good minimal DJ's, stiff drinks and a great rooftop patio with a dope view of the glittering city. We danced till the sun came up, got lost on the walk home, and finally crashed when we found the place. Fun times.
