Museums in Berlin

With a 72 hour pass that let's me into museums, U Bahn, S Bahn, and busses, I set off to conquer Berlin! Fourteen hours later, footsore but satisfied, I re-entered the hotel after taking so many wrong trains and busses I can't count! The son of a map-making geologist, I prided myself on a keen sense of direction (which doesn't translate here) and astute map reading skills (but when Str. stands for Strausse apparently my powers fade). With unlimited pre-paid rides and no real or imaginary (the inner psychological self-pressure can be the wurst) no harm was done no matter how many times I goofed!

Veni, Vidi, vici? (Can't remember Latin cliches.) Anyway, I saw art galore. Roman art, Egyptian art, Babylonian art, Greek art, German art, French art. There is an island in Berlin covered with art museums and I saw them all!

Then travelled to Potsdam to see the town which was once DDR East Germany but now is tourists and palaces. Then to a distant restaurant with authentic German food, like duck, and German grown wine, and a sweet and sour dessert made from different berries. Lots of young Germans walking the streets and sitting in restaurants past midnight on a Sunday. The average age seems to be 15 to mid-thirties, with some kids and elderly thrown in. Extraordinary and remarkable youth culture here, few homeless, and apparent affluence.

All this fulfills a dream I had to see Berlin. Now back to (mis)reading the map!