I'm just going to do bullet points, more information will be edited in later. And pics will come later.
arrival at ~5:30 am in berlin!
-went to two museums in the morning
gate of ishtar
-naptime
dinner with herr guy's friends at the 12 apostles ( ? )
Andreas and Katarina ( ?)
Jewish Holocaust Memorial
Brandenburg gate
Greetings from Herr Guy in late night Berlin, Wednesday 1:00 a.m.ish after our first very full day in Deutschland. Our flight arrived in Frankfurt/Main around 6:00 a.m., then we transferred to the Berlin flight and got to Berlin-Tegel around 9:00 a.m. After buying day tickets for the transportation net, then taking a bus to the train station, we found the train that got us within a block of our hostel, the Heart of Gold Hostel in Berlin/Mitte. Even though we were there by 10:00 a.m., they told us we couldn't check in in until about 2;00. So that made it a good time for culture: off to the Pergamon Museum to the see Pergamon Altar and the Gates of Isthtar, and after that to the Neues Museum for a look at the famous bust of Nefretete and othe Egyptian art works. By 2:30 everybody was ready to collapse, we went back to the hostel, officially checked in, got room keys and took a nap! At 7 p.m. Herr Guy's friend Andreas & Katharina met us at the hostel and suggested we go out for dinner and a little easy sightseeing. We walked over to the Friedrichstrasse station, then took the train to Savignyplatz for great pizza, conversation and a nice walk to Kurfürstendamm, the main drag of West Berlin. And then a nice bus ride back to East Berlin's Mitte. Before heading home, we took time for a spooky noctural visit to the Holocaust Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, then walked to Brandenburg Gate, hopped on the subway and finally got home in time for everyone to say how exhausted they were...and they watch them stay up for another hour checking e-mail and the like. It's been a tiring but satisfying first day! More to come. -----
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