Berlin, arrival day

Tuesday afternoon we were quite stressed at the little airport of Florence. Our plane for Munich was 35 minutes delayed and this meant that we would have difficulty in catching the next plane from Munich to Berlin. Luckily when we arrived at Munich there was a minibus waiting for us outside to take us directly to our next plane without going through the terminal. We found all the other passengers seated and waiting impatiently for our arrival to the plane. When we entered everybody was looking at us with that look in their eyes: 'Who are these idiots that arrive so late, making us lose time waiting?'. Well, it was not our fault guys, our plane was delayed!

We arrived at Berlin on time, took a taxi to our hotel, changed and rushed out to go to a party that we were invited to. The party was organized at the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum (Berlin Medical History Museum). It was a very strange building that was destroyed during the war and not quite renovated afterwards. They even said that it didn't have a ceiling until recently. Anyway, they had made it look very nice with candle light, a bar in a corner, some live music, round tables with white table clothes over, waiters going around with round trays in their hands with colorful cocktails first, wine and beer glasses afterwards... They told us that we were free to enter the museum's hall during the dinner and we decided to go and see the museum before eating. That was a clever decision because, frankly, if we did that tour after eating we would risk vomiting out everything we ate right there in the middle of the museum. Why, you would ask... You should just go and see that museum to understand why. They had tissue samples from sick people. There were skeletons of babies (from a few months old to 1,5 years of age) that had problems like microcephaly, or hydrochephalis, or skeletons and skulls of people that had various problems. There were bottles with lungs of cancer patients, patients with tuberculosis.. There were other organs (you name it, they had it!) that had different types of failures/sicknesses. I didn't manage to look at them all. I just had to run out of the museum hall. My goodness.. What kind of a museum was that????

Berlin is full of extremely beautiful museums to visit, you should see them all. But please, don't even bother to go and see the Museum of Medical History, if you don't thrust your stomach!