Day 2 in Berlin

August 13, 2009

Today was another busy and fantastic day. Tess and I met her friend, Sonya, for brunch in a new (to me) part of the city. The girls had bagels with various spreads and I had muesli with fruit and yoghurt. I always want to like yoghurt, but I never really do. Instead I picked around my brunch and had some of the other girls’ bagels.

Next, Tess and I went on a four-hour walking tour of Berlin. This tour was fantastic because I was able to learn a lot of history of the city as well as see all the sights and get a great walk in. Berlin is a beautiful city and it’s amazing to walk the same places as Hitler, see the University where Einstein taught before he fled Germany, see the churches built by Fredrick the Great, and remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall that are still standing in one afternoon’s walk.

In the evening we went to the East Side Gallery which is a part of the Berlin wall still standing with art on it. Recently, the artists redid their work. I took photos of many of the art pieces. I did so because they are beautiful but also because Larkin’s Mexico graffiti pictures that should now be hanging at our house inspired me. Hopefully, we will have more graffiti picture art in our purple house post Christmas.