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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