City Appartements Bismarckstrasse
Travel Blogs from Berlin
Museum Island
... oldest on Berlin and then made our way to Berliner Dom which is the largest church in Berlin. Made our way up the 267 steps to the top of the dome for a great view of Berlin, had a look at the small museum about the church and the site as there were 2 previous churches on the site and the current one had extensive renovations because of damage during WWII. Then we entered the public gallery on the first floor and watched a wedding ceremony that was being concluded which ...
Here comes the sun da da da da!!!!!!!
... along the major university in Berlin where a man name Humboldt is very famous and I like that because I live in Humboldt Park! yeah! :) and the street ends up at Museum Island.
Then Kel and I went to the Holocaust Memorial and the museum underneath it. From afar the memorial looks nice but you dont realize how emotional it is until you walk ...
Day 17 - an end to our glimpse of Berlin
... knees and the lady in the corner was complaining about the air coming out of the vents and it was cold even on warm. It was so stuffy and I said they are automatically on, then she said shed find a way to get it turned off. I said it was nice and because we were packed in we needed it. The lady seemed to give up after that. The other people got off in Dresden so Baba and I stretched out. When people walked past our compartment I would cough really ...
The new and cosmopolitan Berlin.....
... University which has a history tied to Frederick II (also referred to as Frederick the Great). The Guide related an interesting story concerning Frederick. Apparently he had little interest in his regal duties and tried to escape to England with his childhood friend (and possibly his lover). They were captured near the French border on orders issued by his authoritarian father, Frederick I, and returned to Germany. As the friend was an officer, he was ...
Sun 4/9 to Tue 6/9/2011.
The train to Berlin was hot and crowded, and the main station at Berlin very busy. Kathi kindly gave me some directions and drew a map so I could catch the correct suburban train to Alexanderplatz. There, after a little confusion, I walked to my next host, Claudia's former partner, Pete. Pete took a while to answer the door and I was waiting outside in the street making phone calls in the hope that he would come down (he had fallen asleep). Eventually we did make contact ...
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