Berlin. What an awesome city. If there was a city I could spend days upon days in, it would be Berlin. It may have topped my list of favorite cities. I will have to spend more time in it to be certain but that won't be hard for me. Thank goodness it is cheap to get there.
I could not have asked for better weather. When we left Burg a slight drizzle had begun. When we got to Berlin, the skies threatened with the same weather. The entire day was overcast and foggy, almost macabre in some way. We went on a city tour in a tour bus. That is the most touristy thing I have ever done and it was spectacular. I got to see places I want to go back and visit; pretty much every stop.
I don't really remember what we immediately did after that, the day was a bit of a blur. We did however go to the mall and eat some amazing Turkish food at the insistence of our professors who said Turkish food is the real Berlin food. If that is how Berlin food is then count me in. Over my face being stuffed with yumminess, I managed a hearty "Das schmeckt sehr gut!" a phrase one learns quickly in Germany. I we had some free time to go explore the mall, maybe get dessert, or whatever we wanted to do. Dessert? I just had heaven in a pita! I don't want that to go away so fast. Besides, there was a massive electronics store I saw that caught my fancy. It didn't disappoint either. I could have spent hours (and thousands of Euro) there had I been rich and had no pressing engagements.
After we left the mall we went to Berlin Cathedral. There we got to climb to the dome and look out across all of Berlin. Remember the mist and the cloudy day? It made the colors on the changing trees so saturated and luminous. It also added an awesome atmosphere to the pictures. I cannot wait to see how they turned out. The inside of the cathedral was mind-blowingly stunning as well, the ornate designs and nearly ostentatious gold layering in the main sanctuary area threatened to occupy the rest of my time just snapping pictures.
We then journeyed on to the Brandenburg gate. It's a massive gate that is super cool. On the other side there was this walkway that had all the fall colors lining it in perfect mixes of fall colors. There was also a man blowing giant bubbles along the sidewalk. This fascinating activity prompted more clicks of the shutter. The bubbles with the fall colors in the background have the potential to be really cool pictures. I was on the wrong lens and we were very pressed for time so that is just one of many excuses to go back there really soon.
Berlin Hauptbahnhauf is a fantastical building. Massively tall, it is the main hub for all the central public transportation in the region. The U-Bahn (subway or metro) goes through the bottom levels and the trains go on the next few levels. It was a bit peculiar to think of a giant glass building having trains running at different levels through it, but then I remembered that I am in Germany and they are genius engineers. I have decided that one could spend an extremely long time in the Hauptbahnhauf without going through the same area. It is massive and it's just such a cool building.
That sums up the day. I feel asleep on the train, first in the standing position, because I'm a ninja, and then on the seat. I was really tired because we had an awesome day. Berlin, I will be back, you have something of mine and I want it back. You stole my heart.
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