Berlin A week in Berlin | ||
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| Some great playgrounds just next to our hotel | ||
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| We were very close to Checkpoint Charlie. This is where the Berlin Wall stood. | Everywhere there were gypsies trying to scam people. It's so obviously a scam, but I guess it doesn't need to be so sophisticated in order to make money | |
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| Checkpoint Charlie from the nearby McDonalds | Finally, we see the shell game scam. We saw it operating twice in Berlin, both times at Checkpoint Charlie, where there's lots of tourists. | |
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| Eating the Berlin specialty of currywurst | The view from the top of the Franz�sische Friedrichstadtkirche | |
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| I took this picture to remind me of something unusual that I noticed in Berlin - huge, wide streets, with no pedestrian signaling at all, nor any other signals (stop signs, etc). I believe it was part of a policy to make everyone watch out and not rely on signals. Don't know how effective it was. It felt weird crossing the road. | At Checkpoint Charlie | |
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| The Jewish Museum | ||
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| We did a tour at the old airport - Flughafen Tempelhof. The Americans had officer's quarters there after the war, and also the previous incarnation of Lufthansa had some offices there, before the war. | The old officer's quarters | |
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| The airport terminal hall, closed for years now. | ||
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| Peter got tired during the guide's long explanations | This looks very 1930's to me. | |
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| In a former film repository, which burned after the war | ||
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| At Mauerpark - lots of street life, markets and and musicians. | ||
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| Also lots of litter | ||
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| These swings were scattered about oddly over a wide area - maybe an old playground? | ||
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| Remnants of the Berlin Wall | ||
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| At the AlexanderPlatz | ||
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| Walking throught the Museum district | ||
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| A famous chocolate store on the Gendarmenmarkt | ||
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| At the Holocaust Memorial | ||
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| A Russian war memorial close to the Tiergarten | ||
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| The kids had lots of fun trying to make it up these very slippery rocks. | The Berlin Wall went right through here as well | |
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| Peter and his rock collection | At the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin - lots of interesting things, though not very interactive. | |
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| An old railroad, from the 1500s | ||
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| This windmill rotated, and was turned via this long post | ||
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| Some ruined old buildings next to the museum | ||
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| In Potsdam. This was my favorite part of our Berlin trip (though it wasn't actually in Berlin) | ||
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| Old East German era buildings in Potsdam | ||
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| We spent most of our time in the grounds of the Sanssouci palace. It was lovely. | ||
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| More rock collections | ||
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| At the Chinese house | ||
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| Peter showing off his gun | ||
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| I never quite figured out exactly what this sundial type thing was | ||
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| On beautiful little island in the park | ||
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| Interesting old fence on the perimeter of the park | ||
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| At the Eastside Gallery - where there's a long stretch of the old Berlin Wall, with all kinds of graffiti on it. | ||
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| This one is quite famous | ||
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| No toys? No problem! Just play with rocks! | ||