Today Mrs. Thiermeier and I headed up to northwest berlin to check out the Charlottenburg Palace.
The palace itself was originally just one wing, intended as a summer retreat for the prussian royal family outside of berlin (at the time of it's building, the town was not a part of Berlin - now it's well within the city limits), over time however more wings were added on, especially as the royal family spent more and more time there.
If you want to read more about the history of the palace, go here.
We couldn't tour the whole thing unfortunately (would take too long, and was rather expensive), so we went through the old palace (i.e. the original wing).
All the rooms were very nicely decorated (tons of paintings, tapestries, etc), and gold adorned (was a baroque and rococo style palace), with numerous antechambers, dressing rooms, beedrooms for the king and queen, seperate apartments for guests, as well as a large oval room used to greet guests as they arrived (this room opened into the garden, and sticks out from the line of the palace quite a ways).
Outside the palace was a large garden, park, lake, and mausoleum. Inside the mausoleum lie 4 members of the royal family (can't remember which off the top of my head). The mausoleum itself was built with lots of black marble, which gives it a very regal and solemn feel.
We spent about 3 hours at the museum. Afterwards we headed to a cafe to get something to drink (was hot again today), and then headed back to the apartment on the U-Bahn.
After we got back, I went for a run, and then spent the rest of the evening sorting (still!) through the weekend's photos, and getting caught up on the blog.
