Check out time was 11 AM, so we slept in just a bit, checked out, and hit the road for our final day in Berlin. Andy said a teary goodbye to the Amstel House as we left.
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| Tears |
Our first stop was the Olympic Stadium. Predictably, they wanted 5 Euro for us to actually go in and look around, but we contented ourselves to walk around the outside. Seeing the stadium was cool because it is huge and old and historically important.
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| Tiny Andy at the bottom |
We grabbed an enormous bratwurst from the vendor just outside the stadium and headed off to see a palace for which my hopes weren't too high. I ended up being blown away. The Charlottenburg Palace was an enormous building stretching what seemed like a quarter mile end to end. Behind the palace lies one of the biggest, most beautiful gardens I've ever seen (better than Mom's in the size category only, of course). The garden was so big that it seemed to be a sort of public park with locals running and walking their dogs.
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| Charlottenburg Palace |
Nestled in the garden were all sorts of hidden gems such as the family mausoleum.
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| Mausoleum |
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| Eerily realistic marble sculptures on sarcophagi |
We made our last stop in Berlin at the world famous Berlin Zoo. Confusingly, we seemed to be visiting on the day when only small children and their parents went to the zoo. Everyone our age must have been busy today. We saw all kinds animalistic behavior including a monkey indulging his sexual urge, two lions wrestling over a gigantic slab of meat, and elephants sucking dirt up their noses and spraying it on their foreheads. That just can't be a smart decision.
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| This is how I imagine Patrick if he were a monkey |
We grabbed our last kebap and headed to catch our train to Prague. Throughout our trip, the language barrier has been a definite impediment to progress. Sometimes German is intuitive--almost as easy to understand as English. Other times you wonder where all the spaces went. And sometimes you just have to give up.
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| This obviously means "Surfin', chattin', and mailin'" which are all reasonable things to do at an Internet cafe |
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| This is a museum about Andy and me |
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| The spacebar hasn't yet reached Germany |
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| I don't know what this says, but no language could possibly explain what is going on in the second panel |
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