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In August
2017 I went to Berlin to study German, but I couldn't just stay there attending
classes, I needed to explore what was around me.
So, one week-end I decided to walk around the city and... that felt like home.
This is what I carry the most in my heart:
1. You never forget your first currywurst. Mine was taken in a fake-beach outdoor bar and was just delicious. I also visited the "Currywurst Museum" but honestly I found it too expensive. Worth the funny experience though. 🌭
2. "Once it was the Berlin Wall. Now it’s the longest open-air gallery in the world"
Immediately after the wall came down, 118 artists from 21 countries began painting the East Side Gallery. This 1316-meter-long open-air gallery opened in 1990. 🎨
This alone can be an example on how peace can be achieved and celebrated.
But what made my visit and the gallery even more special was this little girl that was touching and comparing her hand to those painted on the wall. I wanted to see our future in her hands in that moment.
This unexpected and heart-warming gesture was so banal... Why weren't we all doing this? 🙏
3. The Molecule Man was strategically placed in the middle of the river Spree, which once marked the division between East and West Berlin. 🤝
Jonathan Borofsky's sculpture consists of three men almost embracing one another, as for representing the past, the present and the future of Berlin melding together.
At the time I visited it, right on the railing in front of this sculpture there was a paper with a photo of a young black man that had been "missing under unknown circumstances" in that area. Can we call this the future we long to have?
I've
visited lots of interesting and innovative museums in Berlin. I recommend
visiting the most you can. Anyway, these are the ones that I've found more
unusual or strongly engaging.
Top 5 museums to visit in Berlin
1. The Jewish Museum made me learn and experience so much about the Jewish culture, so enriching and emotionally intense. 🔍
2. The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fuer Gegenwart doesn't offer the kind of art I'm keen on, but the works of art inside it will bring you to reflect a lot about today's world. 🎭
3. The German Museum of Technology made me feel like a child again. There, your curiosity awakens and suddenly learning becomes stimulating again. 🤖
4. The German Spy Museum was funny, interactive and engaging. You realise just how brilliant, genius and able spies must be and have been in the past. 🔫
5. The Dali - The exhibition at Potsdamer Platz was a delightful surprise as well. Dali takes you in his dreams and subconscious mind full of colours and details to interpret. 🎨
On Sunday I
visited Potsdam: Branderburg's capital, 35 km far from Berlin. This city is
full of history and culture dating back from the Prussian empire right up to
recent decades and was the greatest surprise of my trip.
I can't choose what's best to visit. I had a 28,000-steps day in Potsdam and everything was worth the visit: the Dutch quarter, the Cecileinhof Palace, the Brandenburg Gate, St. Nicolas' Chruch and so on...
So I decided to tell you a funny anecdote about the Sanssouci Palace: Frederick the Great's summer residence and sanctuary between 1745 and 1747.
On its pediment it's written “Sanssouci”, which means “without a care” in French, because here he could relax and escape the neighbouring city of Berlin.
But there's more: it seems that there's actually written "sans, souci."
If you read it in French it becomes "Sans virgule (no comma, or, in this case, no penis), souci point (no problem)" and it seems to be a sexual joke on Frederick the Great's impotence... since his wife never spent time with him in the palace, but always remained in Berlin 🙆
Poor Frederick, people are still making fun of him 🤷
What a lovely, innocent way to end my weekend! 😇
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