The Brandenburg Gate at night...
...and the Quadriga on top of the Brandenburg gate during the day.
A side-view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Note the cobblestone stripe in the road marks the spot where the wall used to separate east and west.
Sanssoucis Palace in Potsdam with terraced gardens.
A gazebo in Sanssoucis Park. It was over a 2km walk from the entrance to the park to the Sanssoucis castle.
The Teahouse in Sanssoucis Park.
Nice detail of figure in Teahouse. Check out the hat!
I thought this was such a pretty duck, I had to take a picture of it. Sanssoucis Park.
It sounds better than it looks.
Pretty statues in front of Sanssoucis Palace. An audio-guided tour through the palace gave visitors and idea of life during Friedrich the Third's time.
In front of the German parliament building in Berlin
Cute manhole in Berlin detailing many important spots.
Berlin Zoo - baby elephant born in March.
Berlin Zoo - and a baby pigmy hippo.
The Gedächtniskirche in Berlin with part of the new structure and the old part of the church. The inside of the new part is a very vivid blue.
Gedächtniskirche inside detail - a royal ceremony depicted in such detail that the faces look as though they were photographed.
A model of what the area around the Gedächtniskirche looks like now...
... and what it used to look like.
Around the Kurfürstendamm - a view from the terrace of Cafe Kranzler
A detail of some statues across the Cafe Kranzler.
Our lunch consisted of Berlin Bouletten (a type of hamburger with onions) and fried potatoes.
A view from the river Spree during our boat tour of the Berlin Dom.
Berlin - City of Peace
View of the Nikolaiviertel - a part of town with many riverfront restaurants and cafes.
Another view of the Spree river closer to our hotel.
They call this place the "pregnant oyster" - it's now a house of world cultures for many art exhibits.
People along the river Spree enjoying the good weather.
On Sundays, there are many flea and antique markets such as this one near the Ostbahnhof station.
Sign in one of the U-Bahn stations.
Inside a WW2 bunker of the "Berlin von unten" tour - you can see part of the Berlin "wall" that blocked off the end of this hallway. It was scary down here and we had to find our way through with flashlights, wading in ankle-deep water.
The owner of this cafe in WW2 had a special function - he had the key that opened the bunker for people to hide in during war-time air raids.
Hackesche Hofe - a shopping area of Berlin. Very nice cafes too.
The TV-tower from afar...
... and a close-up
A view of Berlin from the top of the TV-tower (about 200+ meters up)
A view of the Spree from the TV-tower
Not so scenic view of apartment buildings. I think these might be remnants from former east Germany.
The Berlin wall marker running through many streets of the city.
The front of the German parliament building...
... and an inside view of the cuppola at the top. It's a good time to see it in the late evening as the lines to go in are shorter. It is open until midnight with the latest (free) admission at 10pm.
Berlin at sunset from the glass cuppola of the parliament building.
The glass cuppola features a cone-shaped, mirrored structure that extends from the top down to the bottom and inside of the parliament hall. This is a view down.
We walked past a parking-lot full of Trabis...
... which tourists could rent for the visit. These former east German cars were manufactured from fiber and resin.
A piece of the Berlin wall remnant separating east and west.
Another view of the marker showing where the Berlin Wall used to be and that it had been in place for nearly 30 years.
