Trendy Deutche Eatery
Our first meal in Germany (Italian)
Euro Cool
The view from our hotel's red carpet
An espresso machine in the room!
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, which was serious damaged from Allied bombing. A modernist church was constructed around the damaged tower.
Over 70% of the buildings in Berlin were damaged or destroyed in WWII. We saw shots of the streets around this church in 1945 and it looked like neat rows of rubble piles.
The sort of photo we could have taken if it stopped raining (scanned postcard)
Thousands of tiny square stained glass windows in the modern hexagonal "beehive" church.
Everything in the church is hung from thin cables so the lights, balcony, organ, and even Christ look like they're floating.
The original ceiling repaired
Rain, rain, rain...we felt right at home!
U-Bahn Undergound
High-capacity German post-bike
A street watched by a giant smiling Sheik?
The Jewish Museum
This "garden" of exile is suppose to show the sense of confusion and loss felt by the thousands of Jews who fled Germany
The Great Void, expressing the emptiness left by the genocide of so many.
The clinging sound as you walk across this piece felt cold and sinister - very effective
The Architect Libeskind's lines/shards of brokeness
Checkpoint Charlie, the most famous of the 3 gates between East and West Berlin during the Cold War
Berlin street
Our traditional German dinner in 'Zur Letzten Instanz', Berlin's oldest restaurant and pub opened in 1621.
The resturant from outside
Photos from our night walk (no rain!)...
Pointing to the moon
Just a short 10,000 km to Berlin's partner city
Two shady figures in the night
Berlin Cathedral along Unter Den Linden Strasse
Saturday night in Berlin!
East German TV tower
Berlin Cathedral
Construction site with cool lighting
The S-Bahn stop on the famous "Under the Lime Trees" Street
The famous Brandenburg Gate
"Victory"
The imposing Reichstag Parliament building
Those 2 shadowy forms again.
Brandenburger Brake Lights
Our AMAZING "sorry for giving away your room" present.
We could get use to this...
Strange shot of our "living room"
Artistic? No, not really.
The next morning: Charlottenburgh Palace, summer home of the first Prussian Monarchs
Appropriately impressive
The sprawling French-designed Palace gardens (in the rain)
The skies clear for 30 seconds, just long enough to snap this picture. Note the amazing cloud formation in the upper left.
An advertising pillar confesses its true feelings to this dog
Lauren catching some rays at Potsdamer Platz, the business hart of Berlin
Dangerous architecture: when buildings can kill
Corporate Architecture at its best: the Sony Centre
This giant sail structure covers the plaza at Sony's European HQ
Pieces of the Berlin Wall where it used to divide Potsdamer Platz
Us at the wall
Photo of the wall blocking the Brandenburger gate
1989 and the day the wall came down
Holocaust memorial
Reichstag in the rain
Very grey day
Children's play-place architecture
In line for the Reichstag: A bit of color
Norman Foster dome on top of the reconstructed Reichstag
Helical ramps and a rainy sky
Berlin from the dome
This conical mirrored core draws natural light and funnels it down into the main parliamentary chamber
Norman "crazy shapes" Foster
Sweet structure
Parliament from above
Us at the top of the (open) dome
The seats of parliment
Berlin from the Reichstag roof
Patriotic sky-shot
River Spree at night
Last shot before the train/plane back. Auf Wiedersehen, Deutchland!
