Museums and a tram ride.

May 27, 2019, Berlin--We  returned to the hotel and John thought about pig knuckles and cabbage for dinner.  Ben was once again in an asparagus mood.  We  picked out a German restaurant that filled us, the Zur Hippe Gasthaus (translated literally "to the hip guesthouse").  The restaurant, located in the eastern sector, will be closing permanently after 33 years in operation.  It opened before unification.  It provided us with a good menu of asparagus dishes, soup and with boiled potatoes for Ben.  John got his pig knuckle, which was huge and very easy to eat once the layer of skin and fat was removed.   

The restaurant filled us up, like breakfast at this arty hotel (the Art'otel).  Everything from smoked fish to eggs to yoghurt to croissants eaten in a dining room surrounded by modern art.

Yesterday we headed off to the Museums!  We visited the Neue and the Pergammon Museums. From ancient Sumeria and Egypt to ancient Germany with the palace gate in Babylon, the mummies and temples of Egypt, the ancient walls of a home in Aleppo from the14th century, castle walls in Muslim culture and beautiful ceilings.  Quite a cultural feast.

Then we took off for coffee and a beer in a local park and a tram ride to see East Berlin's architecture from Communist days.   Not great.  The DDR looks like it was so dull, full of wide boulevards and huge nondescript buildings.  Today the ground floors bustle with activity.

 Here's an array of pictures.

Nefertiti poster, no camera in her room

Egyptian temple ceiling

Pre-historic Germanic era gold calendar hat

Muslim caliphate castle walls

Mummy cases

Gate of Ishtar

Temple painting

Muslim era Aleppo house

Never pass up a tram ride

Communist Architecture