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Travel Blogs from Potsdam
To be an Australian tourist or not to be ...?
... only 10 then!! Oh the gags keep coming !!). Anyway for those of you living in the dark ages Tacheles is/almost was a large old decaying building which was inhabited by artists, homeless people , homeless artists and artists with homes. Just generally a cool place with little bars ( because alcohol is treated like water here, it can be drunk anywhere!) loud music and many stairs and the occasional smell of urine. Sadly this epic kunsthaus is closing. ...
Neukölln musings
The streets of Neukölln are a little grimy, tagged with graffiti, and a muted shade of grey most days. People with ambiguous origins shuffle along, seemingly not going anywhere in particular. Except for of course, the women. In this somewhat gender-divided community the women walk with purpose. Their mission seems to be to haggle down the price of their sacks of tomatoes or flatbread at the corner "Gida" store, or turkish ...
Day 63 -- I'm APT to Get Anything
... map and gave me general directions. I found the street it was on without difficulty, but it still took a while to find the specific location. Once there I got a city map and made reservations in Potsdam for the next two nights (more about that later). For the rest of the afternoon, I wandered about the city looking around and finding various sites of interest. I found an area of town that was a part of an old Dutch settlement, an old gate to the city, a couple ...
Sachsenhausen
... s were proud of such as – a gravel death strip where prisoners would be shot upon foot on it, an electrified barbed wire fence, had a layout that reinforced the Nazi control over the prisoners (namely it was set out in the shape of a triangle so everything could be seen by the guards in “Tower A”) and a “prison within a prison” where the most 'important’ prisoners were kept – the idea being the general population could hear ...
Ich bin ein berliner
... even in such a heavily visited area you'l find moments when there is no one in sight.
next on the hit list was the location of the bunker in which hitler took his own life rather than being captured by the allies. the sight itself is just a gravel carpark for a nearby office building (find it by looking out for the carpark with several tour groups standing around just around the corner from the memorial.)there isnt so much as a sign ...