Shells

September 15th, 2016 , 20:44

So up and out to the Bauhaus Archiv – largest collection of Bauhaus material. It was a straight walk through the Teirgarten, so we walked. Lovely day in the garden, went through the ‘English garden’ which wasn’t so very English but still nice. In the morning there are water sprayers going, so had to dodge some wet paths. But still a lovely walk. Got to the museum just as it was opening, but headed to the cafe for breakfast. Best coffee in Berlin was in the cafe at Bauhaus.

The museum itself is tiny – displays actually say they knew it was too small as they were building, but as it was a Bauhaus design they went with it. The building is lovely, but takes almost no time to go through the museum. We spent about an hour and a half, but that’s because I really like the style and was watching a video! Joe paid for a very heavy hardback book on the Bauhaus from the start to 1933, then I had to carry it all day.

We then walked along the canal toward Potsdamer and passed one of the other Bauhaus buildings in Berlin – The Shell House. It’s really lovely and Joe took lots of photos. We walked on, up to Potsdamer and along to the memorials along the old wall. Unfortunately the one for Peter Fechter is right in the midst of a cafe! We ended up at the Museuminstel where we had lunch, then we walked along the river back to the hotel, stopping for Joe to take photos. At the train station we saw a Oktoberfest tent, so had a look in. Why is Oktoberfest in September? Or why isn’t it called Septemberfest?

We packed as we’re off tomorrow (boo) then went out to a nearby Croatian restaurant and had a wonderful very large meal. We got a sharing platter – after Joe had crowd sourced what to eat from the online menu amongst a bunch of his work colleagues. Which was the other shell of the day – the centre of the platter had a large flaming scallop shell – yes, on fire. Cooking the skewers of lamb. There is a photo. And at the end of the meal we got a little brandy. Then back to the bar and g&ts on the water watching the boats and people.