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Berlin is not a city to be travelled on foot – too spread out. I picked up a (probably stolen) bike at the Flohmarkt (flea market) in Friedrichshain for €35.

Berlin is, however, a city made for biking. Literally, there are bike lanes everywhere. Most streets have a painted line for the bike land or a section of the sidewalk marked for biking. Most roads also have a short marked lane at intersections to give bikes room to skooch up to the front without getting squished.

I absolutely love biking in Berlin!

Maybe it goes without saying but the Jewish museum is pretty intense. You enter into a basement with a long slightly rising corridor. Along this corridor are two others that intersect at odd angles creating a path with two extra axes. Along the corridor are displays with belongings of Jews that were murdered at concentration camps. At the end of two of the corridors are large voluminous void rooms; one of them pictured below has 10 thousand screaming metal faces. Once you leave the basement level, the two floors that comprise the permanent collection detail Jewish customs and history and are much less depressing.

Ok the last bit was by metro but the first 14 km were on foot!