Berlin

September 29th
2009
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We spent 3 nights in Berlin with my cousin Jessica, and aunt Robin.  Jessica lives with her husband in Germany, and Robin came to visit her.  They were nice enough to let us share part of their vacation!  We kept ourselves busy sightseeing… Berlin is huge and there’s a lot to see.  My favorites were the Berlin wall (there are markers everywhere that show where the wall was, and photos that show how it used to look), a cool flea market with local designers and artists, and the Brandenburg gate.

Lots of photos…

Reichstag - the Nazi\'s used a fire here as an excuse to declare an emergency state, leading to Hitler\'s dictatorship
Reichstag
Sightseeing with luggage
Sightseeing with luggage (2)
Checkpoint Charlie (former boarder crossing)
Ha ha
You are leaving the American Sector
Checkpoint Charlie
Berlin Wall 1961-1989
Where the wall used to be
Old East Berlin style cars are now trendy
Portion of the Berlin Wall
Portion of the Berlin Wall
Walk
Don\'t walk!
Where are we?
Pretty street lamp
Berliner Dom (cathedral)
Robin on our boat ride
A museum and TV tower
Berliner Dom
Schloss Charlottenburg (fancy palace)
Alonna and cousin Jessica
Robin
German Tapas - delicious!
Modern Postdamer Platz
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
You can walk through it
The memorial was huge
Brandenburg Gate, built in the 1600\'s
Napolean took this to Paris, but Berlin got it back
Used to be part of the wall\'s dead zone
Comfort food - Starbuck\'s vanilla latte
Comfort food - coke with ICE

09.20 - Germany, 2009

2 Comments

  1. Sandra
    09/29/2009

    Snack Point Charlie – what a kick!
    I’m surprised the E. German cars are trendy – I thought they had really noisy and polluting engines – has that changed?

  2. Alonna
    09/30/2009

    Hmm, I don’t know, but I doubt that’s changed. And not everyone likes them, Dave said this on Facebook:
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    Also the cars… called “Trabants” are called for short “trapy’s”… but I prefer the term “crapy’s”. Those cars go so slow on the autobahn, when you drive fast and pass them, they come at you as though they were driving towards you. It’s like a game of frogger… to drive on an east German highway because of those cars!

    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant_(Pkw)
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