ok, so it's the beginning of official day four of my trip (this is not counting the first flying day) and I'm going to be travelling most of the day, in fact I'm going to Poland this afternoon. It'll be nice to just take a day or so to travel because it's been such a whirlwind the past couple of days of sight seeing. Right now, I'm sitting here at 11:16AM (that's 5:16AM in the US) in a sunny internet cafe in a Dunkin Donuts looking out the expansive picture window out onto Zoologischer Garten, with the old bombed out church standing in the square on a few hundred yards away, quite a dramatic view to type on the internet...but they have rooms with a view...so why not internet, eh?
So, to catch up, well I decided to make tues. musem day and went out to try to see as many museums as I could in one day, well, you know how that goes. So, I got to the Pergamon museum at about 11AM, which is an hour after it opens. and let me tell you what a treat that was. Basically it is an entire museum of things from antiquity, and it is one of the best collections in the world, I can't wait to post my pictures, just so many amazing things, many of them original from the bible times. They had an original pergamon alter, they had the Ishtar gate from the kingdom of babylon, and another gate of a muslim city in the middle. They also had a good bit of greek and roman statues as well as 4 thousand year old cuneiform tablets, the beginnings of our recorded history from the cradle of civilization. So, all said and done I spent about 4 hours there and then comleted the use of my day pass by visiting the Altes Nationale Galerie, basically it a 17th century galerie of all German painters, and all of the captions and info was in German, which made it a little frustrating, but there were a few Monets, Ceszannes, Van Gough's, and Renoirs. Then I met up with my friend that I met from Hong Kong, we hung out, went to eat a few places, but our feet were tired. But, it was a good day and I felt I saw a lot, although I still want to see many things here, Perhaps I will be able to finish everything monday....I hope. More about yesterday. i.e. wednes. soon...till then auf widersein
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Day 4....in the beginning
ok, so it's the beginning of official day four of my trip (this is not counting the first flying day) and I'm going to be travelling most of the day, in fact I'm going to Poland this afternoon. It'll be nice to just take a day or so to travel because it's been such a whirlwind the past couple of days of sight seeing. Right now, I'm sitting here at 11:16AM (that's 5:16AM in the US) in a sunny internet cafe in a Dunkin Donuts looking out the expansive picture window out onto Zoologischer Garten, with the old bombed out church standing in the square on a few hundred yards away, quite a dramatic view to type on the internet...but they have rooms with a view...so why not internet, eh?
So, to catch up, well I decided to make tues. musem day and went out to try to see as many museums as I could in one day, well, you know how that goes. So, I got to the Pergamon museum at about 11AM, which is an hour after it opens. and let me tell you what a treat that was. Basically it is an entire museum of things from antiquity, and it is one of the best collections in the world, I can't wait to post my pictures, just so many amazing things, many of them original from the bible times. They had an original pergamon alter, they had the Ishtar gate from the kingdom of babylon, and another gate of a muslim city in the middle. They also had a good bit of greek and roman statues as well as 4 thousand year old cuneiform tablets, the beginnings of our recorded history from the cradle of civilization. So, all said and done I spent about 4 hours there and then comleted the use of my day pass by visiting the Altes Nationale Galerie, basically it a 17th century galerie of all German painters, and all of the captions and info was in German, which made it a little frustrating, but there were a few Monets, Ceszannes, Van Gough's, and Renoirs. Then I met up with my friend that I met from Hong Kong, we hung out, went to eat a few places, but our feet were tired. But, it was a good day and I felt I saw a lot, although I still want to see many things here, Perhaps I will be able to finish everything monday....I hope. More about yesterday. i.e. wednes. soon...till then auf widersein
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Monday, March 28, 2005
I'm here safe and sound
Well, I'm finally here same and sound, although today it is costing me an arm and a leg to be on the internet, about 1€ per 20 mins, that's a little pricy, but the things we do to be connected eh? S0 after about 24 hours of travelling, including a 6 hour layover in London which was more like pergutory, I am here and try to do as much as I can through this persistent jet lag headache I've had. Yesterday I just basially got to my hostel, got situated, did some reading and then went to sleep. Got up, had the traditional german youth hostel breakfast (I had forgotten how much I missed quark..aka european vanilla yougurt, only better) and then gathered my things to head into Zoolischer Garten in zentrum Berlin. By the time I got situated and got to my new hostel (which was a bit of an ordeal in and of itself) I took a nap, a 2 hour nap. Then went out and about the city, I have a lot of great pictures, but ungfortunately no way to get them on here...yet. But I did see the Brandenburg gate, went up the big TV tower, perused a street book sale at the humbolt university, had currywurst(berlin's traditional sausage) and walked around east berlin, and ended with the best Apfel Streudel (apple streudal) I've ever had in my life, now I'll have to try to make it when I get back to the states. So, even though I got to a late start, I did and saw a lot for my first full day here. Tomorrow will be museum day, then wednes wll be Sans Soucci palace day trip, then thurs. - sun. either Poland or Prague, I haven't decided yet.....choices choices choices I hope everyone is doing well!
Friday, March 18, 2005
Germany.....finally
Well, I'm finally officially going to Germany. It's been a little over 2 years, which being the person addicted to traveling that I am, is too long. Although I don't this trip will be as spontaneous as the one 2 years ago, but then again...it's me. I'm glad that my ticket situation finally got resolved earlier this week. So, I now have voucher with usher and a ticket (cheaper than the original) from ORB to BEREA. Although I will have to take an extra personal day, but then again I'd say a personal day in Europe is worth 3 in the states. A little over a week from now I will be in Deutschland...................yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah
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