It was another day of enjoying what Berlin has to offer today!
We started with breakfast in the hotel. I decided a while ago, but reaffirmed while eating, that I will only be eating bakery fresh bread from here on out. Does that mean I will be shopping more frequently during the week? Maybe. Have I already located at least one bakery in the vicinity of our apartment? Yes…yes, I have…moving on! Post-breakfast, we had a little time to kill before our single scheduled activity, so we went back over to Checkpoint Charlie because there was another, slightly larger, souvenir store we didn’t get to check out yesterday. We didn’t really find anything. We then went through a few other random souvenir shops before killing some time people watching in the subway station. By about 10:30, we hopped a U-Bahn a few stops into the city as we had scheduled an hour long riverboat tour! The weather today was the coolest it’s been in a while, and I was feeling mildly unprepared for the slight chilliest, but we chose to sit inside the boat for the tour rather than up on top. The tour was very cool; it went by a lot of the major buildings in the city that lie along the river Elbe. We saw the Berliner Dom, Reichstag, Futurium, and several other really cool buildings! With the tour done, we headed back towards the Sony Center where we ate lunch and *tried* to see more of the Sony store. Once again, there was a rope going up the steps, and after some sleuthing, we came to the conclusion that there wasn’t very much else in the store past what they have on the ground floor at the moment. It was a little bit of a bummer, but c’est la vie… From the store, we went to the Film Museum, which details the history of German film and television. It was a really nifty museum with a lot of old costumes, props, and memorabilia! There was a big section on Marlene Dietrich, and the section on film in the Nazi era was really fascinating! We didn’t spend too much time on the television areas, mostly because the access to them was confusing. We were both also getting kind of tired. I, in fact, had dozed off briefly during our boat tour earlier in the day! Before we went back to the hotel to relax, we popped over to the Schloss Charlottenburg. We didn’t take a tour, but it was magnificent from the outside! Satisfied with our perimeter tour and *very* tired, we went back to the hotel, where we spent the rest of the late afternoon/evening. I think both of our bodies were trying to tell us to calm down since we’ve been running amok so much the last couple days! Tomorrow, we move on to Hamburg. Fair warning, it may be a double post day the day after tomorrow as we have something EXTREMELY FUN planned for the evening! More details to come :) As always, enjoy the pictures!
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