Day 206 Thursday 11th August 2016 – Berlin Breakfast around the corner again then hitting the road for a day of museums this time some big ticket items on the “museum island”. On the way we gawked at some interesting buildings, passed by the site of the Nazi book burning that occurred on the 10th May 1933. This is where all that black and white documentary footage of intolerance and suppressing free thinking by burning books happened, standing here surrounded by the university buildings and the Prussian National Library I guess this is where you stamp out learning and understanding of different ideas. Anyway moving on it is off to the island and when we arrived the lineup for the Pergamon museum was about 2.5 hours long, it is nice that there is a
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