Meena came to visit me in London for her spring break... and we actually decided to spend the first few days of that time in Germany! I met her at Heathrow and we headed to Berlin for three days.
It was late by the time we arrived - our flight was delayed - so we only got dinner and went to the Brandenburg Gate, which was near where we were staying. The next morning we started the day by going to the East Side Gallery, a long stretch of the Berlin Wall, before going to Museum Island, home to five museums and the Berlin Cathedral. We started off at the National Gallery of Art.
Afterwards we went to the Berlin Cathedral. We toured the inside and then climbed up to the top of the cathedral, where you can get a panoramic view of the city from the dome. The Altes Museum is next to the cathedral, so that was our next stop, before the museum closed.
In the morning we first went to the Holocaust Memorial, before walking over to Museum Island again. We sat in front of the Berlin Cathedral in the sunny Lustgarten under momentarily bright blue skies with some brief warmth from the sun.
We spent the rest of our last full day in Berlin at the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum, before hunting down fries for lunch and waffles for a second lunch.
