From Stansted on a cold wet dreary morning... - photo miltoncontact.com
to the Potsdammer Brandenburger Tor on a hot georgeous day - photo miltoncontact.com
looking through the Brandenburg Gate to the Church of St Peter and Paul - photo miltoncontact.com
Taking a turn right into a little shopping courtyard, I found these delightful teapots on display - photo miltoncontact.com
At the exit to the yard on the Dorfusstrasse, there was a golden monogram emblazoned on the doors - photo miltoncontact.com
i continued down the Dorfusstrasse and turned left onto the Charlottenstrasse, parallel to that seen through the gate earlier. Here was a fantasic combination of houses in all stages of renovation, side by side - photo miltoncontact.com
Some more examples on the Charlottenstrasse - photo miltoncontact.com
Dereliction had attracted the graffiti artists - photo miltoncontact.com
I turned left into the Jägerstrasse to get back towards the central street and photographed someone having their lunch outside during their break - photo miltoncontact.com
instead of a builder, Valentin Oelmüller was actually a craftsman, making and restoring stringed instruments - here seen before - photo miltoncontact.com
and here after his ministrations - photo miltoncontact.com
Valentin'e workbench - photo miltoncontact.com
The cool, comfortable interior was illuminated by natural light from the large windows - photo miltoncontact.com
I left Valentin busy at work on his next project - photo miltoncontact.com -
to be greeted by another resurgent German phenomenon - Gesellen who had completed their initial training (in this case in carpentry) to wander through the country, gaining experience with other Masters (meister). - photo miltoncontact.com
Onward to the church of St Peter and Paul... - photo miltoncontact.com
St Peter and Paul entrance - photo miltoncontact.com
Since unification, the Church had obviously adopted a different apporach to Marxism (Marx ist tot = Marx is dead) - photo miltoncontact.com
A richly decorated interior within - always a surprise for a british visitor used to plain stone - photo miltoncontact.com
and with a beautiful skylight - photo miltoncontact.com
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Out of the church and turning right the market was in full swing - the local apples crisp juicy and refreshing - photo miltoncontact.com
I was entering the Dutch Quarter and loved this green gate - photo miltoncontact.com
the shuttered windows decorating what was a tourist shop at every doorway - photo miltoncontact.com
the occasional Carriage gate revealed hidden gardens inaccessible to the shopper - photo miltoncontact.com
who's real and who's not? - photo miltoncontact.com
the cars and busy streets made it difficult to get good shots of the typical dutch style - photo miltoncontact.com
The infamous Hauptmann von Köpenik bought part of his uniform here before committing his audatious robbery in Berlin - photo miltoncontact.com
Wandering on and out through the Nauener Tor - photo miltoncontact.com
my attempts to capture the buildings were complemented by the more modern street furniture of carefully separated and colour coded waste bins for recycling. - photo miltoncontact.com
i turnde back down the Hegelstrasse until i came to the Jägertor and turned into the Lindenstrasse - photo miltoncontact.com
Here sun and architecture played in the courtyard off a legal establishment - photo miltoncontact.com
Right into the Gutenbergstrasse to a whole row of buildings in the early stages of restauration - photo miltoncontact.com
still wearing their graffiti - photo miltoncontact.com
and hats of young trees - photo miltoncontact.com
The scale of the task is immense... - photo miltoncontact.com
the floorboards showing the years of neglect - photo miltoncontact.com
yet a neighbour shows what will be - photo miltoncontact.com
here the protection is more like a modesty veil - photo miltoncontact.com
on the boundaries of park Sans Souci, the Friedenskirche - photo miltoncontact.com
with its shaded quadrangle - photo miltoncontact.com
giving perspective views - photo miltoncontact.com
looking across to the domed Kaiser Friedrich Mausoleum - photo miltoncontact.com
different views - photo miltoncontact.com
And then inside the Chruch itself - photo miltoncontact.com
where King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Queen Elisabeth Luise are remembered above their crypt - photo miltoncontact.com
A last glance over the lake - photo miltoncontact.com
then it is out near the fantastically formed trees - photo miltoncontact.com
to glimpse another moment in time - photo miltoncontact.com
On to the Palace of Sans Souci - photo miltoncontact.com
With its fountain - photo miltoncontact.com
Sans Souci - photo miltoncontact.com / miltoncontact.co.uk
Sparrow and griffin - photo miltoncontact.com
up the stairs - photo miltoncontact.com
Turing right at the palais and continuing along, you reach this vision of steel and gold - photo miltoncontact.com
...glinting in the afternoon sun - photo miltoncontact.com
and the view back - photo miltoncontact.com
just along is the tower of - photo miltoncontact.com
the art gallery - apparently the first of its kind - with flemish and dutch painters in the left wing and the italian in the right! - photo miltoncontact.com
Wandering on back through the gardens to the Schopenhauerstrasse, you meet the sculptures of Moors - photo miltoncontact.com
and at the junction with the Weinbergstrasse find neglected ruins - photo miltoncontact.com
On my travel home from the hotel Seminaris outside Potsdam, i took the watertaxi - photo miltoncontact.com
past rich yachts - photo miltoncontact.com
pirates - photo miltoncontact.com
This mock mosque actually hides the pumping engines for the fountains - photo miltoncontact.com
The relaxed captain chats with his passengers - photo miltoncontact.com
decaying fogotton industries - photo miltoncontact.com
The Nikolai Church being wrapped for export - photo miltoncontact.com
Then its good bye to the taxi - photo miltoncontact.com
and hello to the first of many trains - photo miltoncontact.com
