Last Day in Berlin :(

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Today was my last full day in Berlin… I leave tomorrow on a marathon of flights, ending up in San Diego sometime Friday night. What to do with my last day?

I decided it was time to get a bike and ride around the city for a nice change. I was going to try to squeeze in a visit to a lake, the bike riding and two more museums, but I only had time for the bike and museums… The lake visit will have to be next time I'm here :) I hopped the U-bahn down to Alex-platz and picked up a red cruiser bicycle. It was perfect. My first stop was the Altes nationalgalerie where I was hoping to find some good impressionist paintings. There were a few… I breezed through and headed back out to my red cruiser to take a nice leisurely ride through the Tiergarten. It was a lovely day, with the sun shining bright, and the thousands of trees created some nice shady trails to ride through peacefully. It felt great to be cruising through on a bike this time. Plenty of locals and tourists alike were relaxing in the park, playing with dogs and children, or strolling through. With the heat over the past few days, there were also quite a few sun-bathers.

I rode through casually and eventually got to the zoo area, where I found the museum of photography. It was lovely and I enjoyed it very much. After that, I got back on the bike and cruised back through the Tiergarten, slowly, just relaxing and enjoying being out of the heat.