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En route to Berlin....
Status report: It is 0612hrs CET. The train is whizzing through rural Germany en route to Berlin. I am sitting on the top bunk in a small but well appointed cabin.. The night was spent dozing amid the sounds of a high speed loco doing it's stuff!! What more can I say. Slightly dazed but ready for a strong "uber coffee" Next task: Arrive Berlin Hbf …
Berlin
... it's sights. The Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate and The Riechstag to name just a few. One of the most interesting was the Holocaust Memorial- a plot of land central to the city but just a few yards from Hitlers bunker covered by 2711 plain concrete blocks (oblong shaped) of all differing sizes. A very poignant reminder of what went on. They have been sprayed with anti graffiti paint but there is much controversy over this as the company ...
Cold War Mecca!
... Berlin’s Cathedral) another pretty amazing cathedral, but an unexpected surprise was I got to climb to the top of the Dom, so of course, I did! If it can be climb I shall climb! And since it is on the opposite end of the city as the Reichstag I got a different vantage point and of course more pictures then a person really needs!
Nest stop: Check point Charlie! So this is the ...
Day 1 - Pergamon Museum
... history and culture that occurred at this site. Unfortunately, because of the angle of the sun and the condition of the glass it was impossible to get a good picture of it.
From there, we came to the Pergamon Museum, which was really a museum of gates. The primary focus of the institution was on the Pergamon Temple in Greece that had bee removed and reconstructed in the museum. Along this this entrance were a Greecian temple gate, a Roman gate for a market, an ...
Glad it is 2012 and not 1945....
Hello from Berlin !
Since I had just one day in this amazing city, I took a 5 hour historical walking tour, which started in bright sunshine and ended in cold and rain ! It was appropriate as we ended with the WW2 sites and Hitler's bunker (now a car park !), so by the end we were all sufficiently wet, cold, miserable and depressed ! Though it was thrilling to see the Brandenburg ...
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