Second day in Berlin was a bit less adventurous. We visited DDR Museum which had a decent
amount of things basically from my
childhood. It had an apartment set up in
the style of 80s with chachkies like egg holder, telephone,etc. The
boys loved it because the museum is interactive – you can climb into a car,
turn the knobs on the stove, use the
typewriter!
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| They had no idea what a cassette player is |
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| Notice the pictures on the wall behind - Marx and Lenin |
Then we wondered around Berlin down to the Tiergarten where we found a
large playground. Tiergarten is somewhat equivalent to Central Park in NYC with a minor difference of Tiergarten dating back to 16th century. On the playground
there was a large group of refugee kids playing so we got talking to adults
with them. Apparently, there is a charity organization that takes kids from the refugee camps and brings them to
playgrounds. The supervisors seem to be a bit exhausted because the kids are unruly.
Towards the end of the day we visited two Soviet war
memorials along with the East Side Gallery. East Side Gallery is 1.3 km long stretch of the actual Berlin Wall that has been turned into art project. Afterwards, we headed back to the apartment where some of us played soccer and
some drank beer.
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