Donnerstag, 28 August 2008
Visited the former Statsi headquarters this morning. I think I've now fulfilled my lifetime quota for 1970s furnishings. The spying exhibit was rather amusing (cameras hidden in everything from birdhouses to gloves; there was even a watering can camera for spying on funerals). They also apparently had trouble finding enough tape to for all this recorders, and had a tendency therefore to steal music tapes out of the incoming international mail to use in voice-recording.
Lunch at Checkpoint Charlie (too many tourists, pretty good ice cream).
Spent the afternoon at the Jewish Museum. It was very informative, and had lots of cool artifacts going back to the Middle Ages. Highlights include illuminated manuscripts written in Hebrew, Moses Strauss's glasses (18th century frames are weird!), beautiful Torah shields, and lots of portraits from the past 3-4 centuries. Really depressing things included the whole first and second floors (post-1900).
Need to do something cheerful; will probably involve Monty Python in some capacity.
In other news, it is much easier to “bake” potatoes in a microwave than in an oven. But the oven does get coolness points for being labeled in Celsius.
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Stasi HQ AND Checkpoint Charlie??!! No Fair!! Did you get strip searched at CC? Haha. ;)
No. Though there were people in old-school uniforms for tourists to take pictures with. And lots of street vendors with old Soviet uniforms and memorabilia.
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