Day 48 - What... Ever!

It's been a weird day today. First off I was amazed that I didn't stick to the bed after getting so sweaty dancing the night before. It's a good thing I didn't bother doing laundry before leaving Munich. That would have been a waste! It was really nice to shower in the morning. I'm going to keep an eye out for proper shower facilities when I'm looking at hostels on "the dismal side of the iron curtain".

I ate some cereal, then I hiked about. I wanted to drop by the euraide office to grab a map, but they were closed at 1PM on a Saturday. I'm guessing that was their lunchtime. So I head to BVG. I don't know what BVG is, but the Lonely Planet book in the hostel said it provided tourist info. They sell bus tours, and the maps they have are not suitable for people like me who would usually rather walk than ride. I take one anyway and head over to Easy Internet where my blog update gets eaten. But on the plus side, they have some half decent maps in the back of a free english guide to Berlin. It's more paid advertising than an actual guide, but a map's a map. I start walking and eventually realize I'm on embassy row. It's mildly interesting to see the different architectural styles for the chinese embassy (ancient stone lions on the steps and metal box patterns in the windows), italian embassy (cheesy fluted scroll capital columns), and the south african embassy (with a big rusty gate right out of Half-Life 2's City 17), but I'm not bothering to take any pictures. I check the map and realize I'm close to the Kulturforum, a collection of museums, at least one of which was on my museum list (the long one, not the five item one I wrote about on day 43).

I was not feeling that museum. I had seen much cooler stuff in the Residenz, and everything was in German, so there was no way to gain any insight that might make the collection interesting. So I flew through the old stuff, only taking some snaps of stuff I thought looked especially nice. I don't know if I'll even bother putting that kind of stuff in a slide show when I get back. It's more just for me to look at and try to understand why I like some stuff and not some other stuff. In fact, if there were two similar items and I liked one a lot better than the other, I made sure to photograph both, for future study. Then I started getting into the modern collection. Some of that stuff was awful. I couldn't believe you could have jeweled challises in the same building as this incredibly tacky and uncomfortable furniture. Highlights include the chair made from a shopping cart and the pressboard television.

I wandered the streets for a while after that, locating the Bauhaus Museum for future reference, then I took the metro home, bought some pasta and made dinner. I didn't make sauce. I wanted to, but I couldn't figure out if the market had the right tomatoes, but they definitely had no onions, which is totally improper for saucing.

So now I'm trying to figure out what's up for tomorrow. I'm guessing I'll mark the museums I want to hit on my map for future reference. I was planning to take Brewer's Tour on Monday to try and avoid weekend crowds, but I think I might do the Sunday one. I keep wanting to walk around and saying, "Nah. I can't go see the Reichstag. That'll be on the tour." Best just to get it over with, I think.