My friend Jared in front of the reconstructed Pergamon Altar
Yesterday, we briefly walked around Museum Island, a museum complex literally located on an island in East Berlin. Museum Island is considered a UNESCO World Heritage site and contains 5 internationally significant museums. Today, we bought a Museum Island pass and decided to spend time exploring what these museums had to offer. My favorite museum here was the Pergamon Museum, which holds an enormous reconstructed ancient Greek temple (The Pergamon Altar) in the main room. After spending time at Museum Island, we tried currywursts from a market (basically a hot dog with curry powder - quite popular in Berlin for some reason) and then headed to Schloss Charlottenberg, a Prussian royal palace on the West side of Berlin. It was quite an impressive building, but we did not have much time to take it in. We did manage to have another great German dinner - the best roast pork I have ever eaten smothered in - you guessed it - beer gravy.
