Berlin

For the kids' week break in February we decided to visit Berlin. Some of the sightseeing included the Berliner Dom or Berlin Cathedral.  The church dates back to the 1400s and is still a parish church. You also see the huge TV tower in the background which is one of the symbols of the city.

 

Behind us here is the new museum which is on 'Museum Island'. The boys were not too impressed. They wanted to go back to the hotel pool.

 We visited the Berlin Zoo and Aquarium. It is the most visited zoo in Europe and claims to have the most species of any zoo in the world.

 This was getting better than the museum island according to Brian.

 

Our tour of the city included brand new complexes like the Sony Center which boasted its own big animal outside of the Lego store.

 We traced the old wall throughout the city. It was hard to explain to the kids how different the world looked in 1989. We explained that when we were kids, the city was completely cut in two.

 We also visited the natural history museum where they maintain one of the largest collections of dinosaur bones in the world.

 The hotel pool was the highlight according to several of our participants.