A Trip to Berlin - Day 6

 

On our sixth day in Berlin we visited the Museum für Naturkunde.

(Natural History Museum)

The main hall had dinosaurs!

This one looked really cool.

I spotted a sign promising more dinosaurs.

Wait a minute...

This is not a dinosaur!

Found them!

Dinosaur Shadow Play

There was a display showing what's left of dinosaurs today.

 If you've ever looked a chicken in the eyes, you immediately believe they're related to dinosaurs.

There was a big room with lots of jars with specimens.

A Dodo!

It wasn't a real one, but a replica. 

Still totally cool!

Hippos.

And Knut, a polar bear who was famous for a while.

Lots of other taxidermy as well.

A big (fake) spider!

Not sure who this guy was, but apparently he was important at one time.

Cool bird.

A last look at the dinosaurs.

I very much enjoyed this outing.

We then went back to our tiny lodge and relaxed for the rest of the day.

Next: Altes Museum

A Trip to Berlin - Day 5

 

The friends who were so generous to let them stay in their house the first four days of our trip had other obligations like work and such they had to get back to, so on day 5 we moved to a place called Easy Lodges.

It turned out to be a sort of camping, but with tiny lodges instead of tents!

We got a lodge with two beds and one small shelf thing.

There was a bathroom and showers in the main building. 

The main building also had a small kitchen and a room where you could sit and relax, but we didn't use those. All in all our tiny lodge was a great place to sleep, rest, and store our luggage.

Once settled in the tiny lodge we went to Unter den Linden for some souvenir shopping and sightseeing.

And we walked to the Brandenburger Tor of course.

I'm not sure I agree with this bear, but my owner did!

Next we walked to the Gedarmenmarkt to see the Deutscher Dom. 

Warning: picture spam coming up below.

But wait!

There was another Dom on the other side of the Gadarmenmarkt!

The Französischer Dom. Seems like the Germans and the French both wanted their own church.

On our way over to the Französischer Dom I spotted a lion!

I spotted a sign for a restaurant that had come up with a punny name that was appropriate for being next to a church for Huguenots. (Hugenotten in German)

I think these plaques inside the Französischer Dom tell the story of the Huguenots.

This woman clearly was tired of all this shit!

Next we went back to our tiny lodge to rest and read, because it was still very heatwavy.

There was a crow (Corvus Cornix) walking around at the camp ground looking for snacks!

We saw him and his friends a lot the next few days.

Next: Dinosaurs