It’s suddenly summertime in Germany. A week ago in Hamburg it was a high of 42.

I booked a 1:30 ICE train to Leipzig, so I decided to hit a museum in the morning. Unfortunately the Neues Museum had an endless queue and my time was limited, so I thought the Altes Museum would work but, strangely, it is closed on Monday and Tuesday. My next choice was the Museum of German History but the main building was closed for renovations. Fortunately, the modern annex was open and had an exhibition of German history from 1848 to 1990, which held my interest for two hours.

I took an Uber from my hotel to the Berlin Hbf to wait for my train to Leipzig. The station was full of people on holiday since tomorrow is May Day which, despite its Communist reputation, has always been a German holiday to celebrate labor and springtime.

Since the rest of this post has been languishing in autosave mode for the past ten hours, I deleted the evening portion and will repost shortly.