Parliament Building (Reichstag) Berlin

It's surprising how easy it was for me to fall asleep on board the overnight train. I guess its the rocking... but I did wake up a few times when it became a bit colder... brrrr....

The train reached Berlin Lichtenberg Station at 745am. After which we alighted to take the S-bahn which is free to Jannowitzbrucke, and then buy a ticket (EUR1 …

Berlin was amazing. So much history and soooo much to see. We were given the background on Berlin’s troubled history in our morning city tour. We learn about the East/West split at the Berlin Wall and check out the controversial Reichstag (German Parliament) as well as Tiergarten (one the world’s biggest parks), an learnt the layers of …

We were both really excited about Berlin and we were pulling a 7-nighter here so took our time to enjoy this fascinating and exciting city.

We got stuck straight in with a 4-hour segway tour on our first full day there. After a quick practice we were whizzing round at top speed (well, the max we could go which was topped at 20kph, but …

The second day started with us having to go out hunting for breakfast. As the hotel breakfast would have been €12 each we thought it better to try and find a café nearby. Fortunately it was only a 5 minute walk down the round before we found somewhere. It was a nice little café with various types of coffee lining the wooden fascias of the …

We walked our feet off again today and got a lot of use from our public transport ticket. The weather was absolutely perfect; sunny, warm. We visited the DDR (East Germany) Musuem which was very informative and unusual in that it is totally hands-on and interactive. You pick up, touch, feel the everyday items from the old East Germany and the …

My long weekend was really exciting. I started it off on Saturday afternoon with a Pillow Fight Flash Mob on Dam Square, the main square in Amsterdam. I was invited by another UvA student. A crowd met up for a random, fun-spirited pillow fight. It was a lot of fun to be a part of it. Feathers were everywhere!

That night I met up with my …

Berlin is a gorgeous city! It has such an amazing history. On our first day we did a four hour walking tour that was so interesting. We saw everything from the Brandenburg Gate to the old resients of Hitler and the Berlin Wall. The history of Germany is incredibly interesting.

Friday after the German History Museum, we did the Meiningers …

What a City... more please!

This is my very first blog ever... sorry if it sound like a review, I'm sure in time I will get into the swing of things... so be gentle with me!

I was initially thinking... what is there to do in Berlin once you have done the Berlin Wall & The Brandenburg Gate...be a bit boring...boy was I wrong!< …

When you do a scavenger hunt, you don't really expect to have to do math, but that is exactly what happened! Chemnitz has a scavenger hunt that is supposed to take you to some of the main landmarks in the city using a GPS device. You then find the coordinates of your next destination by answering a riddle and solving an equation using that answer. …

... with "Ja" one with "Nein" and the other with "???" whatever the German word for undecided is. When people leave the parliament building after a discussion or before a vote, they use the door that corresponds with how they are feeling about the topic of ...

... to a cool chocolate shop that made Megan drool the previous day.  They even had massive models of the Brandenburg Gate, Parliament building, and even the Titanic all made out of chocolate.  It was pretty impressive.  After checking out the chocolate ...

... , where you can climb up to the glass dome for free!  This was my favorite place in the entire city.  The parliament building was all grand and old while the dome was so random and furturistic.  Now we are back in the hostel... about to do ...

... short sight-seeing tour, following Rick's guidebook.   This took us past the Victory Column and to Reichstag, the parliament building of Germany. The Reichstag was almost burnt down in 1933, and it was believed that Hitler used this as an ...

... blocks make a great hide and seek/tag course. From the memorial, we walked past a big park that was behind the Parliament building, in the direction of Bradenburger Tor (Bradenburger Gate), which was built in the 18th century by Friedrich Wilhelm ...

... dinner (very traditional German food) before meeting up with our friends from the hostel to visit the Reichstag (the German Parliament building). The building is really impressive, with a huge glass dome that visitors can walk up, and best of all, it's ...

... and insane demands of both leaders in stages. Statlin wanting a propoganda photo of a soviet soldier on top of the old parliament building by the 1st of November (a national holiday) so rather than strategically taking the area they were ordered to do a ...

... to see a few sights & work our way to Potsdamer Platz and the big screen to watch the game. The German Parliament building, Brandenburg Gate, The Holocaust Memorial & part of the Berlin Wall later, there we were at Potsdamer Platz ready for the ...

... the mispronunciation today and of course sell a lot of T-shirts. Right near Brandenburg gate is the Reichstag or German Parliament building. We eased through the tight security and were destined for the rooftop. The entire roof is enclosed with glass ...

... on Berlin's western boundary, today it symbolizes the reconciliation of the Eastern and Western portions of Berlin.  The Reichstag is Germany's parliament building and, like most of Berlin, is beautiful and was created with phenomenal attention to ...