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Encapsulating a few weeks

The next few weeks will mostly fit into a single blog post.

On Monday I dropped off the Bike to a service, where it would be until Thursday. I used this opportunity to check out some museums – spending multiple days in the “Deutsches Historisches Museum” (German History Museum). It ‘s a pretty spectacular museum I have to say!

In the spirit of things German, I also decided to have the “Spiciest Currywurst in Berlin” because I’d gone past it a fair few times. Let’s just say rating 6 was at the edge of what I could eat. Some Macho young guys from Stuttgart ordered a 10…  it was all they could do to not throw up,  with the loudest of them actually laying himself on the ground so he wouldn’t pass out from the pain. After smirking for a liiiitle bit and enjoying some good-old-fashioned “Schadenfreude“, I suggested they run along and get some Milk…  I’m pretty sure they also paid for the mistake of going for the 10 rating the next day.

That weekend Manja had arranged us to meet some of her friends for the “Postdamer Schlössernacht” (Night at the Potsdamer Palace). We headed out to Sanssouci for the evening, eating a variety of foods and watching a bunch of performances in the gardens. It was a pretty spectacular setup, which all finished with a laser show across the palace after dark.

Saturday we caught up with Manjas Family for some family events, and Sunday morning was a tour of where Manja started her Berlin life…  Right after a breakfast where we played “How many wasps can you catch in a glass?” (I got to three by the end of breakfast!)

Throughout the next week I went back to visiting a variety of museums, including the Topography of terror, which is a memorial museum to the atrocities of the Nazi secret police. I also visited the “Haus am Checkpoint Charlie” which was a great museum when I was a kid…  Unfortunately it’s not really been updated since then, so it now feels really run-down and outdated, which was a bit disappointing, especially seeing that it was more expensive than all other museums. Oddly I seem to have failed to take any pictures of note in either place! On the way over, though, I stumbled across an advertisement for Berlins most thematic escape rooms. I immediately setup a catchup with Niklas to try them out later that week.

We met up for some coffee before the game, and also saw this gem of an advertisement:
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After finishing our delicious coffee we went into the much hyped room. Being that we’re awesome, we obviously succeeded. I have to agree with the advertisement – the rooms are really well done and very thematic. Great fun, and the best escape rooms I’ve been to so far!  Niklas_Simon_Escape_room_HouseofTales

After the room we headed off to grab some dinner and chatting before calling it a night.

That weekend I had invited Manja to the “Lange Nacht der Museen” which is a night that 50 museums across Berlin are open for 8 hours. You can see as many as you like on one ticket, and that ticket also allows you to use the public transport system for free. Some of the Museums were super busy, but we still saw a lot – and I’m grateful that we didn’t really “pay” for some of them. Good to have been in there, but I would have regretted paying the entry fee – like the Bode museum.

Anyway, we started at “Schloss Charlottenburg” (Palace Charlottenburg) which was fascinating. About half way through there was even a concert in the old concert hall.

After that we went to the Charité museum and the communications museum which were a lot of fun. As always Manja had planned out a path for the night which allowed us to see as much as possible. She’s great at that – we managed to fit in way more than if we just moved from place to place the way I would normally do it.

Sunday was quiet, but Manja and I did go to a really nice place called “Lilyburger” where I managed to not get a heart-attack from eating a much too big burger, before we headed out to catch a movie in the nearby cinema.

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The following week I started to go on a secret mission for some things for my family…  Can’t post about that, they read the blog! 😛

1 Comment

  1. Sigrid Malessa

    Ha ha for the hubby day care 🤗and I do read the blog😜

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