Berlin

Germany!
*Note: this is 3 of 4 about Germany

Berlin may have been one of my favorite cities I have ever visited. There was so many museums, monuments, restaurants, and people that I enjoyed visiting, and therefore I will break up this post into those catagories.

Museums: Berlin had amazing art, architexture, and information. There was old master museums, galleries, and even buildings (sorta). In one museum they had reconstructed old gateways, alters, and fountains. The museum contained pieces from Assyria, Rome, and Turkey. We walked around many museums and were unable to see enough, even while doing this for about 3 days. The German history Museum took a day, and I do not even really look at everything! The various galleries had some beautiful paintings. There was the fountain of youth, conquering love, and a madonna. Also the nice thing about Berlin museums is when you buy some of their tickets you get in to many museums and get free audio tours :)

Monuments: Berlin does not really do flashy monuments. In fact when a local was showing us around the city they took us to many places we had already been. There was a place to honor people who had demanded their husbands back from the police, the square where the Nazis burned books, and a small building that was for unknown soldiers. Everything was just out of the way and unless you knew exactly where to look you would walk right by, which we did about two or three times.

The restaurants we went to the normal person might not consider. For one thing I am a vegatarian, which our guide knew, but decided to be more cultural and ate meat. The other being that one was completely in the dark. The first one I refer to was Austrian. It had tons of meat dishes and amazing drinks. This meant that I had veal, something I rarely ate when I did eat meat. But it was definitely culture food. And the second place was as I said quite blinding. You are told to turn off anything that remotely emits light. We then pick our menu, well it is actually a poem about our food. I think I only guessed one item correct and that was the dessert. It had been labeled as drunk smurfs sledding, and was of course blueberries w/ cream and a bit of liquor. Our server was blind and quite helpful. But the whole experience was fantastic. When you can not see your food you almost enjoy it more. It made me try to picture things but also go with texture too. And though you keep waiting for your eyes to adjust, they do not. So you pour wine in the dark, eat in the dark, and talk to each other, never knowing what anything really looks like.

The people that we stayed with were wonderful. They helped us pick the right museums and brought us to the said restaurants. They also made the most wonderful breakfast in the world. I really do not know the name of what it is I ate, but it is like a mixture of whipped cream and cheese. Unfortunately you can not get it in the states, stupid FDA anyways. And thus I am ending this chapter on Berlin, thinking back on my wonderful breakfast.