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Compare and contrast one of the (many) sparrows outside the 2 euro pizza place near the hostel with the slightly more exotic specimens roaming Schloss Sanssouci at Potsdam.
The pizza was popular with the students; the students were popular with the sparrows, but I'm not certain the sparrows were popular with the pizza place -- although there were no crumbs or crusts in evidence.
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The Pergamon Museum contains several large-scale reconstructions of ancient architectural elements contained in equally large spaces. I often found myself gawping at the size, colour, and age of the displays.
Every time we've visited Berlin, a different part of the Pergamon or its sibling institutions has been under renovation. Everything old is made new again.
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In 2011, the Schwules Museum was upstairs in a courtyard off Mehringdamm, but now it's located in a beautiful facility on Lutzowstrasse (with a lovely cafe and patio for a drink or coffee).
May is Queer History Month in Berlin, and the Schwules Museum has some special tours and exhibits to mark the month.
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We took a side trip to Sachsenhausen just outside of Berlin to visit the former concentration camp, and feel a solemn reminder of what happened there.
A comprehensive visitors centre provided audio tours, and in-the-camp exhibits demonstrated and documented the grim reality of the unfortunate many who laboured and perished within its walls.
@GMSachsenhausen
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May 1st is Labour Day in Germany. While events are held across the city, much of the celebration -- and occasional rioting -- is centred in Kreuzberg. The instruction for the day: "Don't go there."
Many museums were closed, so we explored the city looking at architecture, catching a glimpse of a Canadian flag over the embassy, and wandering between the 2710 massive stele of the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas.
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Museum Island is well-named.
In a very small area we could visit the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Pergamon, the Bode, and the Berliner Dom. And these days, of course, the Humboldt Forum.
There's enough stuff here to keep your "museum eyes" engaged for several days. (And the cafes were pretty nice too.)
State Museums at a Glance
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The [Humboldt Forum](humboldtforum.org/en) stands opposite the Lustgarten on Museum Island, but in 2011 it was a construction site and archaeological dig presided over by the Humboldt Box, a temporary building being built to provide info about the massive project.
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The hostel where we stayed the first trip wasn't very far from Checkpoint Charlie, and remnants and reminders of the Berlin Wall were ever present.
(It was rumoured that the hostel was owned by -- or leased from -- the North Korean Embassy which was next door to it.)
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Touring a new city for the first time: find your way out of the airport, find your way into the hostel, and begin to acquaint yourself with some of the city's unique aspects -- Ampelmann & Aperol Spritz.
The goal on the first day: stay awake until 8pm in the new time zone, then go to bed ready to wake up the next morning less jet-lagged.
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The tulips are starting to bloom. It's time for another Field Trip.
This year: Berlin, a city none of us had visited before. 😲
We flew out of Toronto YYZ, and into the now defunct Berlin Tegel TXL. It was not a direct flight, and the group was split between two smaller flights for the second leg into Berlin.
In the early WiFi-only days of Field Trips, it made for some challenging travel coordination.