Day 6: Museum Island
Today I took full advantage of the museum pass. It was the
last day I’d be able to use it since it had been dated from the Pergamon visit.
I got to visit the national art gallery museum and the Neues Museum. The art
gallery had really awesome paintings and some really weird ones as well. My
favorite one was called The Artist or the Performer. It was the type of painting that I would
probably put up in my living room because it radiated so much sass.
The Neues was really cool because they had the bust of the
Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Unfortunately people were not allowed to take
pictures of the bust, probably for the preservation of it because its condition
of the bust was pristine. Another cool thing about that was that there were
also Egyptian tombs in the museum as well as the golden crown of berlin. The
hat was oddly shaped and tall. According to the audio tour the designs on the
crown correlated with the solar and lunar year cycles.
Tonight was the UEFA Champions League final between Real
Madrid and Atletico de Madrid and I got to watch it in the hotel bar. I’m used
to going to restaurants back home and having to look for a place that will play
the game and then being the only one that is watching it. That is not the case
here. There was a group of British guys sitting at tables and others sitting at
the bar watching the game, and everyone watching it was fully invested in the
game. I could get used to this type of fandom. No offense to Texas football.
Food: Some delicious bratwurst from a restaurant near the
spree with some potato salad on the side. The people in my study abroad group
were not kidding when they said that the potato salad here was bomb.
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