Cool Berlin and Tourist filled Prague

So we actually visited these cities in the order of Prague and then Berlin, however we uploaded the pictures backwards and well don't really feel like having to change them all so here we go...







Berlin was very interesting. It was the most American feeling city that we have visited on this trip. What I mean by that is that everything there is now so modern since it was all destroyed during the war. You will notice that we have included many pictures of the Berlin Wall, and that is because it was just really cool to see. The eastside gallery is the longest preserved section of the wall that artists from all over the world came to after the fall and decorated it with different paintings. It was really beautiful and we spent a good deal of time walking up and down the strip. On the other side of town was a museum and memorial for those who died attempting to cross the wall. Probably the highlight of Berlin was the second night there when we discovered that Toy Story 3 was playing in 3D at the Sony Center. Dan had been tormented by posters of this the whole trip, and was so happy to finally find it playing in English, it was amazing! We also went to the Jewish Museum where we tried our first Kosher Gummies... way better than normal gummies btw. The museum was really cool as it went through the entire history of the Jewish culture.







PS- Our guide book was right that Berlin is a crazy party city... on our second night, our entire hostel was out until 4 AM, it was crazy.





















Onto one of the bigger disappointments of the trip... Prague. So going into our trip to Vienna, Budapest, and Prague, we both thought that Prague would probably be the coolest. It probably would have been had it not been such a tourist trap! While the city was beautiful, it was just packed with tourists and people trying to take tourists money. Rather sad really. However, with that said, we did enjoy most of our time in Prague. On our only night there, we went to a concert in a church and listened to pieces written by Bach and Mozart. It was really pretty, and Dan was actually able to stay awake through this one (unlike the organ recital in Bergen). We also had the opportunity to visit our first Jewish Synagogues of the trip in which Dan had to wear a kippah to enter. One of them was the oldest Synagogue in Europe, while the other was much more modern, but quite colorful as seen in the picture.