Some great playgrounds just next to our hotel | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1642.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1646.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1651.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1653.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7395.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7403.jpg) | Eating the Berlin specialty of currywurst | | The view from the top of the Franz�sische Friedrichstadtkirche |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7413.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7417.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7420.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7434.jpg) | The Jewish Museum | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7436.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7448.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7450.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1685.jpg) | | | The airport terminal hall, closed for years now. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7460.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7469.jpg) | Peter got tired during the guide's long explanations | | This looks very 1930's to me. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1754.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7482.jpg) | In a former film repository, which burned after the war | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7491.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7494.jpg) | At Mauerpark - lots of street life, markets and and musicians. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7497.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7501.jpg) | | | Also lots of litter |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7502.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7503.jpg) | | | These swings were scattered about oddly over a wide area - maybe an old playground? |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7507.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1786.jpg) | Remnants of the Berlin Wall | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1791.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1793.jpg) | At the AlexanderPlatz | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7521.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1798.jpg) | Walking throught the Museum district | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_mvi_7526.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1810.jpg) | | | A famous chocolate store on the Gendarmenmarkt |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7533.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7535.jpg) | | | At the Holocaust Memorial |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7539.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1856.jpg) | | | A Russian war memorial close to the Tiergarten |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7562.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7569.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1872.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7572.jpg) | Peter and his rock collection | | At the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin - lots of interesting things, though not very interactive. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7573.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1900.jpg) | An old railroad, from the 1500s | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1906.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7581.jpg) | | | This windmill rotated, and was turned via this long post |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1938.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_1951.jpg) | Some ruined old buildings next to the museum | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2007.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2006.jpg) | | | In Potsdam. This was my favorite part of our Berlin trip (though it wasn't actually in Berlin) |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7590.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2010.jpg) | | | Old East German era buildings in Potsdam |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7594.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2020.jpg) | We spent most of our time in the grounds of the Sanssouci palace. It was lovely. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7617.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2034.jpg) | More rock collections | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7629.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7636.jpg) | | | At the Chinese house |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7644.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7645.jpg) | Peter showing off his gun | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2055.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2057.jpg) | I never quite figured out exactly what this sundial type thing was | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7650.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7657.jpg) | | | On beautiful little island in the park |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7668.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2085.jpg) | | | Interesting old fence on the perimeter of the park |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7677.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_7675.jpg) | 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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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2091.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_img_2092.jpg) | | | This one is quite famous |
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| ![](/Pictures/2013/08-09-2013-berlin/gallery_mvi_7686.jpg) | | | No toys? No problem! Just play with rocks! | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |