Valerie might be getting sick, so we spent most of the day resting.

In the evening, we took the S-Bahn to Museum Island. We took a walking tour with free audioguide (German museums seem to love audioguides) of the Neues Museum. The Neues was displaying the famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. We got lost trying to find it, but eventually found our way there and then out of the museum.

Next, we walked through the Pergamon Museum. Shortly before WW I, some German archaeologists discovered a ancient temple (Pergamon) in Turkey and decided to ship as much as they could back to Berlin, where it was eventually reconstructed and put on display. In a similar manner, archaeologists also shipped back a large portion of the walls of Babylon to Berlin for the same purpose. The Pergamon Museum was built to display these ancient buildings. It’s quite impressive to walk through the city walls of Babylon. To think an ancient civilation was able to construct such an engineering marvel is amazing.

Valerie’s been feeling very tired since the train ride from Zurich. We spent most of the day resting. In the evening, we took a bus to Charlottenburg Palace where we took a walking tour (with free audioguide) of the old palace. The palace was quite large, but it seems small in comparison to some of the monstrous palaces in the older European monarchies. Maybe we’ve just seen too many palaces recently.

We asked the owner of the bed and breakfast that we’re staying at about good restaurants in the area. He mentioned some places with Vietnamese, Italian, Austrian, and Irish food. We asked if there were any good German restaurants. After thinking about it for a while, he mentioned that there was a place that he couldn’t remember the name of next to a bus stop. Based on his response, I have a feeling that German food may not be particularly good.