We began our day in Berlin with a rather forgettable city sightseeing bus tour. To put it charitably, perhaps because Berlin is designed to be pedestrian and bike-friendly the roads don’t go past very interesting places? The route mostly took us past dull apartment buildings and shops rather than places of historic or artistic interest. I think it’s a shame that in a city where they had/have the opportunity for post-reunification rebuilding, their architecture is so unimaginative.
Anyway, we got off the bus at the Jewish Museum. It is a very moving experience to visit this place, which consists of two buildings. You enter through the old Berlin Museum and go downstairs to enter the new building which is a twisted zig-zag reminiscent of a misshapen Star of David. But we didn’t enter straight away: there was a cafe where they were selling real Jewish cheesecake, the kind my neighbour Mrs Kuperholz…
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