Germany 2022 : 2022-09-20 : Lighter Mood Day in Berlin

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Type Name Service Provider Origin Destination Cost Notes Actions
Train Berlin 24-Hour Transit Ticket $25.00 Two 24-hour transit tickets. We bought them late enough that we can use them to go to the airport tomorrow.
Activity
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Kms To Date Total Notes Actions
Sight See Pergamon Panorama $37.00
Sight See Disgusting Food Museum $50.00
Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Bed and Breakfast Cozy hut/ A-frame house Air BnB Brandenburg $390.01 Host: Mario
Cost is for four nights. 219.13 paid 2022/08/03. Balance to be charge on Sept 2
Check-in 15:00, Checkout 10:00
Confirmed no dogs or cats on 2022-08-03


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After all of the heavy WWII museums and memorials the last few days I needed to lighten the mood today. We visited the Purgamon Panorama, then the Disgusting Food Museum, and then made a run up to a map store called Chropp where I bought six new cycle tour maps.

Purgamon was fantastic, but I do think I liked the Berlin Wall Panorama better.

The Disgusting Food museum was fun. They broke disgust down into seven categories: Food, Disease/Contamination, Body, Mutilation/Deformity, Animal-Reminder, Sexual and Moral. The museum had a clear political agenda - to steer people towards sustainable alternative protein sources (primary bugs) but I’m ok with that.

They had a lot of really gross and weird stuff. Some of it we were allowed to open and smell. A lot of it based on animal cruelty. Some of it we’ve had before and would happily have again: Roquefort cheese, Blutwurst, Haggis, Spam, lobster, durian, huitlacoche, escargot, gummi bears, jello salad, salt licorice, Thrills gum, Twinkies, Pop Tarts. Some of it we’ve had, but wouldn’t necessarily go out of our way to have again: Steak tartare, caviar, Vegemite. Disgust is cultural so I guess it’s normal that we have no problem with some of the things.

Of all the things we sniffed, the Hákare (rotten, dried shark meat) that made me gag. At the end of the tour, we got to try some things: bugs, and juice. We each had a grasshopper, and they were really dry and crunchy, and did not have the fishy taste of the crickets we had in Mexico. We also tried the fermented carrot juice and sauerkraut juice, both of which I could have happily done without.

I had found Chroop by searching for a map store in Berlin. We took the subway up there and I was not disappointed. They had the best selection of maps (cycle touring maps, to be specific) maps that I’ve seen since we were in Regensburg in 2015. I bought some maps for our tour next year and one for when we do one in the NE (in the area where Dietmar and Brigitte live).


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