The starting point: conference at DESY at hamburg, which is the German particle physics research lab.
Hamburg is known historically as a port...
...and also as the Venice of the north.
Old warehouses...
...at the harbour district.
Looking through the window.
Still at harbour district.
Insight!
The old, dilapilated from WW2 bombings, St. Nikolai's Church.
Rathus, with a Chinese festival going on.
The huge Nivea store...its their headquarter.
Nivea vending machine.
.and pay WC's, as they are known in Europe.
Beatles memorial.
At night.
The other attraction of Hamburg...
continental Europe's largest redlight district.
Hungry?
Colorful alleys...
...and stores.
with everything in between.
I traveled to this cute little town from Hamburg...
The entrance of the town...
A castle like gate.
Close up.
Skyline of Lubeck...
...dominated by church towers.
Lubeck architecture.
Walking around in Lubeck...
you see a church in every street corner...
View from one of those.
Gunther Grass used to stay here.
Lubeck is also famous for its Marzipans, invented by this cafe, which had awesome nut-covered-ice cream-cake!
View from the cafe.
Sunset at Lubeck.
From Berlin, I visited the site of the erstwhile Saskatchewan concentration camp.
Greeting on the gate, which literally means, "freedom through work".
The path of one way traffic...
Inside the camp ground....
Camp walls...
And little cabins.
In memory...
Too late...
One last look.
The fine old restaurant where I had my lunch. Spent half an hour looking for it.
German food...
...and drink.
Reminds of some other city?
Mercedes Benz cab
Former East Berlin's meeting point...
Old and the new.
Berliner Dome
The University.
Random
:-)
The Reichstag, or more accurately, the Bundestag.
Uniquely laid out holocaust memorial.
Berlin's "downtown".
Checkpoint Charlie
...marked the separation between the east and the west.
Remnants of the wall.
The damaged and the modern bell tower.
Victory tower
Brandenburger Gate
At night
From top
Dome of the Reichstag
Where laws are made...
Berlin central station.
East Berlin Ampelmann traffic signal
The peculiar Exit sign!
The beauty and the Beast
How many people can one bench hold?
Apples!
