Since our school program’s trip of the semester this year was Berlin I made my third appearance in this very large, diverse and historically very interesting city. We went on a long weekend during the public holiday of Christi Himmelfahrt (also known as Ascension Day). My religious beliefs are questionable but I sure wish we had this holiday in the US! Anyways, we went to many museums as well as spending nearly 4 hours on a river tour. I definitely could’ve gotten off after 2 but I’m sure it helped my tan to stay the extra 2. It also have me a chance to have a a ginormous glass of beer. As far as musuems go we went to the Alte Nationalgallerie (Old National Gallerie), the Pergamon Museum and the New Museum. I took thousands of pictures of course.
The group in front of the Konzerthaus at Gendarmenmarkt
Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral)
Bode Museum – one of the only museums we didn’t actually go inside
Awesome paintings at the Alte Nationalgallerie
How real does this painting look?!
Got to say another painting from one of my favorite artists – Monet
I found this picture very interesting – the title was something like Hell Island if i recall correctly
Loving the sculptures with babies 🙂
My favorite part of the Pergamon Museum was the Islamic art collection
at the Neues Museum -> walk like an egyptian 🙂
The hostel we stayed in was very close to a lot of the downtown monuments but the wifi had some serious issues. In fact, my number one complaint about Berlin is that there is no Wifi that works like anywhere in the downtown. I walked around for hours one day trying to find it and I ended up a very frustrated Julie to say the least (and I will say the least..lol). Well i’m going to keep it short because I have a lot of pictures to post and I think they speak for themselves for the most part.