Berlin: Part 3

Our third and last day in Berlin was Tuesday. We had to check out of our hostel by 10am, and our night train to Sweden wasn't until 11pm, so we had a whole day to wreak havoc on Berlin. First we headed back to Brandenburg Gate, to see it when it wasn't dusk and hopefully get a better photo, as well as to see a neighboring building I wanted to see.

Here is a photo of the gate during the day:




Oh, I'm sorry. Is the view of the gate obscured by a giant tent? That's because there was an all-day party celebrating the French independence day right in front of Brandenburg Gate! Humph.

We stopped by DZ Bank on the square facing the gate, because the interior of the bank was designed by Frank Gehry, the same guy that designed the Dancing Building in Prague, and LA's Walt Disney Music Hall, among other buildings. The lobby of the bank is supposed to make you feel like you're both inside and outside of a fish. Well, what do you think?:



After that, we went to the Pergamon Museum, which Kim had heard a lot about in Art History, so we had to go! It features tons of ancient Greek, Mesopotamian and Persian treasures, including ENTIRE TEMPLES AND GATES. I'm not even joking, they just picked up chunks of ancient Greece and dropped them in downtown Berlin.

Here is the Pergamon Altar, a 2nd century BC Greek temple:



After we saw everything in the museum, we got some food and decided to wander the Tiergarten, Berlin's giant public gardens.




After we got bored of that, we went to the French Independence Day celebration (the one blocking our view of the Gate) and enjoyed their free music.

French hipster band:




Since we had our 11pm train to catch, Kim and I grabbed some dinner at a supermarket and ate it on the platform, because we're classy,