Today I learned all about German politics when I checked out the Reichstag Building (their youngest politician is 22, crazy), but was unimpressed that what I waited an hour for was just an elevator to the dome and not a tour. I saw the Brandenburg Gate, full of tourists and idiots in American and Soviet military uniforms who you could pay to pose with for a photo in front of the gate. I wandered through the Jewish Memorial thingy, which was an interesting forest of different sized blocks, saw a lot of closed shopping centres. I visited the East Side Gallery, which is apparently the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, and was very disappointed that it was full of tourist scribblings - "Bob was ere 2007!!!!" etc.
A little homesick and very tired. I've seen everything I wanted to see in Berlin, so tomorrow I'm heading to Prague.
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Did you know that 50% of the German parliament (Reichstag?) are engineers?
True story or geeky urban legend? You tell me.
Geeky Urban Legend, according to the book I got yesterday :)
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