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Travel Blogs from Berlin
Berlin baby
... potsdamer platz, reichstag and the victory column just to name a few. There was more but I have misplaced the map with the names of all the sights. We also found out that the main Berlin train station is relatively new only being opened in 2006 in time for the soccer world cup at a cost of €1 billion!!! It also was technically. Never completed with the main platform being some 40m short at one end so when the ICE ...
A Day of Silence
... party. The story evolves into the suffering the Jews faced once Hitler had full control. The story told here is heartbreaking, ending with more than 6 million deaths as a result of one mans vision (a majority of them Jews). No one spoke, nor was anyone capable of speaking it seemed - pure silence.
Not far from the Topography of Terror, the Holocaust Memorial mimics the theme of our prior location. The memorial itself is comprised of hundreds of stone ...
Berlin
... went to something called the East Side Gallery. It's not an art gallery per se, it's the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, I believe about a mile long, and artists from around the world have painted their messages of freedom and hope. It's an incredible thing to see.
Apart from the geography of Berlin being different than other European cities we've visited, it's also much more of an international ...
Berlin - day 34
... it has differed
as you walk around it's easy to forget the turmoil this city has been through in the past, and it's also really humbling to see a breathtaking building from afar and then to see the bullet holes in the construction as you get closer
the differences between east and west berlin are instantly recognisable in the structures you see and even in the colour of everything around you, and in a show of pure class (in my ...
Ich bin ein Berliner!!
... more and more people in black trench coats, piercings, dying black hair were boarding the train. Bingo! follow the freaks. And believe you me....there were some freaks there. I have seen some interesting characters in my day, but Germany definitely has its share in the big cities. When I arrived at the concert, some other bands were playing already getting the crowd into a big frenzy. When the time came for As I Lay Dying to come on ...