Berlin day 2

Day 2 in Berlin was great as well. We woke up at around 8am after 11 hour of sleep. We went down to get breakfast. I loved the hams while my girl friend enjoyed the boiled egg. She took some to her room. After breakfast, we were all full of energy. So we headed toward Potsdam, a town outside of Berlin.

There weren’t much to see here except some old buildings and a small art museum. We went inside for 3 euros but it was not worth it. There’s only 1 room of artwork and that’s it. We went outside, took some pictures and went to lunch.

In the afternoon, we went to Pergamon museum. It contains lots of archaeological artifacts from many different places. We got the museum pass for 9 Euros each but only had time for 1 museum. There’s an island of about 5 different museums at the same place.


Berlin was destroyed completely from the wars so a lot of the buildings are new. Some old buildings still remained but they are mostly renovated to look complete. We walked along the river near the museum island. Afterward, we headed toward pub crawl. Pub crawl is a tour where mostly English speakers got together and went to this place to drink beer and have fun. It was 12 Euros to get in and you can drink as much as you want for about 1 hour, 1 hour 30 mins. After that, we started to crawl to 5 different bars (hence the name pub crawl). Each drink you buy there will be rewarded with a jegameister. We talked to many people there, made some friends. They are from all over the world. We were buzzed by the third bar at around 11pm so we had to run away from our new friends. In addition we have an early flight tomorrow and still wanted to see the Parliament building and the glass dome. They closed at around 12. So we hurried out. I think if you complete the pub crawl, they give you a free tshirt. By the time we got there, it was about 11:50pm and no one is allowed to get to the glass dome anymore. I was disappointed. That is probably the most symbolic building of Berlin that I wanted to see. After 2 days there, I still couldn’t get inside the dome… Oh well, there’s always next time. So we got back to our hotel and folded some clothes, getting ready for our flight to Venice tomorrow.

I really love Berlin and wish that I could spend more time here. I didn’t know there were that many things to do and there were so much fun. The food is cheap (doner, sausage and beer), people are nice, information are free, tourist-friendly, easy-to-use transportations. In my opinion, Berlin is the best place to visit, at least for English speakers. I don’t know how much information they provide in French or Italian or Chinese. It might be more or less.