The Berlin Blogs - Day Four
Our last full day in Berlin, and the last opportunity to cram everything else we wanted to see! So on the agenda was the Museum für Naturkunde, Check Point Charlie, The Berlin Wall and the Reichstag! The first stop was The Museum für Naturkunde, Germany's Natural History Museum, which we didn't even know existed till the day before, when we went to get the metro to Berlin Zoo and noticed our metro station was called Museum für Naturkunde. When we got home that day we asked the hotel why it was called that we and they told us the museum was literally across the road, you could see it from out room window, but there wasn't one sign or a post outside to say what it was! As we walked into the most beautiful atrium where the biggest dinosaur skeletons I have ever seen towered over us, and all around the edges of the atrium where metal telescopes that you pointed towards the skeletons and the dinosaurs came to life and started to walk around the museum entrance which was so cool! As we explored further into the museum it just got better and better, the planetarium you lay down on couches and the screen was on the ceiling that lowered down towards you during the show, we then found these huge doors that lead into the largest collection of embalmed animals, known as the wet collection including 276,000 vials, preserved in 81,880 litres of ethanol. It was one of the best museums I have ever been too and made me realise how much more advanced Europe is using technology with education.
Once we where done in the Museum we headed down to Check Point Charlie which was quite surreal it was in such a built up area, as you can probably see in the photo below, it was really strange with all the tourists taking photos you forget the origin of the check point and why it was actually there. We then travelled to the east of the city to see the section of the Berlin Wall still standing, it was hauntingly beautiful, the murals that cover the walls are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and to even imagine living in the conditions that the people of the wall faced is unbelievable! We walked right along the wall until we jumped the metro to the Reichstag parliament buildings, which where overwhelming the architecture of the building where break taking, and the true statement of old meets new. As we where nosing round outside we noticed each week night at 10:30 and then again at 11:15 along the river, a light show was projected onto the new parliament building, portraying the history of Berlin as a city. Getting last minutes presents and magnets for nans, we grabbed tea and relaxed not noticing by the time we finished it was 10:15 in a rush we got the metro and came out of the station that leads onto the end of the Reichstag gardens thinking we would miss it and we ran the whole length of the gardens by the time we got to the end ready to collapse, and not being able to barely breathe, we got a place on the steps on looking the river, thinking it would be the perfect way to end our time in the city, until a lovely security guard came over to inform after all that, the show had been cancelled as one of the projectors had broke. So coming back to the hotel exhausted, preparing to pack for our flight the next day and to say goodbye to Berlin
Love Hannah
xxxx
Once we where done in the Museum we headed down to Check Point Charlie which was quite surreal it was in such a built up area, as you can probably see in the photo below, it was really strange with all the tourists taking photos you forget the origin of the check point and why it was actually there. We then travelled to the east of the city to see the section of the Berlin Wall still standing, it was hauntingly beautiful, the murals that cover the walls are unlike anything I have ever seen before, and to even imagine living in the conditions that the people of the wall faced is unbelievable! We walked right along the wall until we jumped the metro to the Reichstag parliament buildings, which where overwhelming the architecture of the building where break taking, and the true statement of old meets new. As we where nosing round outside we noticed each week night at 10:30 and then again at 11:15 along the river, a light show was projected onto the new parliament building, portraying the history of Berlin as a city. Getting last minutes presents and magnets for nans, we grabbed tea and relaxed not noticing by the time we finished it was 10:15 in a rush we got the metro and came out of the station that leads onto the end of the Reichstag gardens thinking we would miss it and we ran the whole length of the gardens by the time we got to the end ready to collapse, and not being able to barely breathe, we got a place on the steps on looking the river, thinking it would be the perfect way to end our time in the city, until a lovely security guard came over to inform after all that, the show had been cancelled as one of the projectors had broke. So coming back to the hotel exhausted, preparing to pack for our flight the next day and to say goodbye to Berlin
Love Hannah
xxxx
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