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Kinda feels like home?
... all the bodies were burnt (up to 600/day), camp prison where people were tortured, pathology lab where experiments where carried out of dead/living people during the war, SS guard housing and facilities and the side of the camp that was named Station Z. Z being the last letter of the alphabet - which also meant the last part of the camp the prisoners would ever see. They also had museums on site with things like original prisoners outfits, the white and ...
Don't mention the war!!
We did not know what to expect really. You get these pictures in your mind of Berlin's Nazi and Cold War past and that's all so negative. Yet everybody we have met on our travels had said what a wonderful city it is.
It’s certainly not picturesque and there are no ancient ruins to see but there are plenty of modern ones: The Brandenburg Gate, The Reichstag, the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Tiergarten and so on. A lot ...
You call this art?!
... 8230; or at least make more sense. I agree, somewhat, but I get what he means. There’s a generational gap. Time has changed and so have culture and the people living to witness it. To my dad, rap isn’t art because he will never find meaning it. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Similarly, graffiti can be seen in two lights. Artists who spend time learning about the culture of graffiti and find meaning in the style of ...
Beigli
... forced to move on when the lights were switched off, we made our way to the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag to view them at night. Both were very impressive. Needing to get a few things done we then returned to our amazing hostel and spent the rest of the night attending to some admin. Midway through the night we treated ourselves to some beigli which lived up to its expectation. It was well after midnight by the time we got to bed.
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The Divided Beauty.
... the East Side viewing gallery of the Berlin wall (our hostel was about a 20 min walk to the Wall)
The wall is all painted with various artwork from artists. It was very beautiful. I bought a postcard which came with a piece of the berlin wall. :)
We also went to see Checkpoint Charlie (the famous American border ...
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