Berlin (part 4)

This blog post will probably be focused on just one day, but we'll see how much I feel like writing after I post the plethora of pictures that will inevitably be needed to convey what I want to show you: Wednesday, after class, a friend and I met up with Matt and decided to go to the Berliner Dom. It was only 4€ with a student discount, and I got lots of pictures!

Looking to the front of the cathedral

The pulpit

The super-impressive organ (sorry if it's blurry)

Each corner had a mosaic of a different gospel

The pictures at the front of the cathedral

And then we climbed up the ~300 stairs (not too bad, compared to some other places!) to the top of the Dom and I got some pretty awesome pictures, if I do say so myself!

The Fernsehtum from a bit higher up!

Our friend Karen with the sculpture/statue

Underneath the Dom were the crypts, which had some pretty well-known people in them (but of course I can't remember the names of any of them - there was a Frederick or two!). It was sad seeing the little baby coffins. But I did like this that you had to pass by at the end:

The text says "Er ist nicht hier; er ist auferstanden" which is "He is not here, he has risen."

After the Berliner Dom, we stopped for dinner and some drinks before heading over to the new synagogue, which we'd heard is pretty. Unfortunately, it was surrounded by trees, so you couldn't really back up to get a good picture of it. It was very pretty though!

Karen wanted to see a Märchen fountain (fairytale fountain) so we went there next.

On the way to the fountain...I'm thinking the bike path was put in after the light pole...

There were a bunch of little statues around the fountain that were all different characters from fairy tales. I didn't actually get a lot of pictures here.

I liked the turtle though, so I got a picture of him

So that was Wednesday! I'll update again soon-ish covering my last days in Berlin and getting into Villmar, where I have lots of pictures again.

Bis dann!