Luckily I just missed the breakfast rush by going down after 9. My efforts at completing an account of yesterday were thwarted by falling asleep. Wandering around cities is extremely tiring even if you didn't get up at 3.30am. On a plus point the rain discouraged too much random walking.
After an afternoon nap I headed out to the DDR museum. It seems more critical than last time I was there. A whole new room majors on the lack of consumer goods and political freedom. The strange thing about their poking fun at DDR fashions (clothes and furnishings) is that they look just as awful as the 60s and 70s in the west.
Afterwards I went next door to the DDR restaurant which offers some favourites from the days of East Germany. In fact I went for the Berlin staple pork knuckle, sauerkraut and boiled potatoes. Unfortunately large and filling, so I was unable to sample a dessert. The black beer was excellent.
Back to the hotel through the rain and in bed by 10pm.
So today after breakfast I went to the radio tower and took some entertaining photos (although not much in the way of views due to poor viability. The Helmut Newton gallery provided an interesting couple of hours followed by a sandwich and coffee at Zoo station.

Then it's back to the hotel to swap my tourist bag for my camera bag and wander over the bridge to Kreuzberg.