Walls, wind, crankiness & food fusion

Monday morning bright many changes in our little world in East Central Berlin. First, the traffic increased multifold. Then there was an alarm at 530 that took 10 minutes for someone to turn off. Then there was a small line (& people seated) at Starbucks after 2 days of being the only one there.

& then there's the 3 amigos (-as): feeling tired, sore & a bit cranky. KH did a nosebleed over breakfast, then EH pulled up lame (exaggeration) going up stairs.

Today's picture from the morning site is of the Wall.(here's link to more pics)

It's not much now, but it was 150 km. They've kept this to remember. &, as a visitor I'll tell you they don't let you forget. Even though it's been down longer than it was up, it is mentioned constantly. Or the partition is. Checkpoint Charlie is still a thing.
What we did:

• Started with the "Topography of Terror" museum. Nope, not what you might think. It's all abt how the Nazis came to and held power. & killed millions of people. Panel after panel depicting Nazi this & these people being led off, etc. It's rather amazing.  The site is where the SS headquarters was. I never saw it, but I suspect the Allies turned the former palace into rubble. 
• Next it was to the Neues Museum, which houses... Old stuff. Ok, there's a part of 3rd floor on ancient Berlin. Part of first floor is Egyptian. Part of second floor is Huns. There's a whole wing on Schliemann's work & robbing of the Troy dig. The highlight is Neferti's head, which you can't photograph. But I liked the recreation of the temples.  They seemed to be big on dragging whole walls back from the middle east. 
• Then we looked at the cathedral, but no one was up to climbing the stairs to the walk along the outside of the Dome. 

Other notables:

• We breakfasted again at the bike place. They replaced spinach in scrambled eggs, W some unknown greenery. I had their version of an English breakfast, which failed multiple ways -- the baked beans weren't right (multiple colours of beans) & as Sheldon would say, the bean to egg ratio was off -- too many beans. 
• We found a local chain for mid morning coffee, but it was so cold we had to move inside to drink it. It was 60 cloudy & windy.
• You can see from the photos we had ice cream for lunch.  😋
• OMG! It was supposed to be Tapas for dinner at a place that had 4.7/5. Yeah, come to Germany, eat Spanish. But, despite having av reservation, there were no tables inside (& it was chilly remember?) & the tapas reminded us of Madrid (code for "not good"). So it was EH & KH tried to find a nearby alternative: one wanted a "safe burger" the other Vietnamese food. I sulked. ☹️ they ended up finding... Wait for it...a Vietnamese place that served burgers! NS. Ironically, I was the only one to get Vietnamese food (pictured). A fusion food ending. 

Tomorrow, early, dresden.