Berlin, Germany

It poured for the first half of the day, so we were forced to abandon our cycling plans to the local neighbourhoods and ended up taking the tube to East Berlin. There lies the longest length of the Berlin wall complete with graffiti and perfect for photography and camwhoring. This, followed by a visit to the Pergamon Museum (link) in the evening. The museum's amongst the many situated on the city's Museums Island and it's pretty neat that they exhibit some of the most famous gates and columns from all over the world. There was the Babylonian gates dated centuries back, and some Roman columns and beheaded Roman sculptures.

Alas, travelers' exhaustion has kicked in because Alan was slumped onto any seat he could find at the museum today. It's really crazy walking kilometres on end for more than 10 hours a day, and it's no surprise I'm down with the cold now. Collecting stashes of used tissue paper wet with fluids from my leaky nose is certainly not something I like doing during a trip around Europe. What's more, I officially finished the final lozenges from a pack of 24 today, and my throat is not completely better--but definitely not hurting as bad as 2 days ago. Time to down a litre of water before bed, and I pray I don't get woken up in the midst of sleep to pee.