The Berlin Blogs - Day Two

Day Two, we tried to get up early but early turned out to be around 11, so we quickly got ready and set out to Museum Island... yes MUSEUM ISLAND! It consisted 5 of Berlins greatest museums show casing art, artefacts and discoveries from all over the world all found in The Bode, Neues Museum, Atlas Museum, Pergamon Museum, and The Alte National Gallerie. These building where sights in their own right to the beautiful architecture of the past to the way the interior was extremely modern and the polar opposite to the exterior focusing your attention to the array of pieces Berlin had acquired, So as you can imagine aloooottt of photo opportunities! I think without a shadow of a doubt my favourite museum on the island, was the all awaited Pergamon Museum, which showcased some of the most jaw dropping things either of us had ever seen. Including a re-erected roman alter, tiles of the Ishtar Gate and stunning Islamic fireplaces adorned in jewels! After grabbing lunch we headed to the Berliner Dom the Cathedral in the heart of the city, where an exquisite dome floated over the main hall as the biggest organs I have ever seen was being played! We then walked up 2000 steps to reach the walk way on the roof that circled the dome and gave us a 360° of the whole of the mitte borough of Berlin which was incredible, on the green tin roof we wrote our names :) To finish the day we then jumped onto a river cruise, it gave us a chance to see the city from a different perspective and to place many of the things we wanted to see in the city later in the week, and it was a wonderful way to end our second day in Berlin!

Love Hannah xxxx

Courtyard of Museum Island

 

Roman alter in the Pergamon Museum

Berliner dom