Germany - Summer in Berlin
Dem Deutschen Volke
This is the seat of the German Parliament, reopened in 1999. Most people remember it from the staged image of a Russian soldier raising a flag on its roof in 1945.
[Reichstag]
Contemplation
Sandra silently thinking something in German. Maybe her thoughts goes to Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus master who designed the building next to us.
[Sandra outside Neue Nationalgalerie]
From the ashes
This church was built in 1890 but damaged during a bomb raid in 1943.
[Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche, Kurfürstendamm]
Keep out
Why do humans always insist on building fences instead of bridges?
[East Berlin]
Du bist kein Berliner
Nobody likes George W Bush, especially not on his visit to Berlin earlier this year.
[East Berlin]
The wall
East Side Gallery is the largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall.
[Reine at East Side Gallery]
Here be Americans
The corner of Friedrichstrasse and Zimmerstrasse is the location of the well-known border station held by Americans, one of the Berlin Wall gates during the cold war.
[Checkpoint Charlie]
Beneath the dome
[Berliner Dom]
How to impale a sphere
[Fernsehturm]
Altitude caffeine
Surprisingly good coffee is served at the height of 207 meters.
[Reine at the top of Fernsehturm]
Columns
[Altes museum]
Construction time again
It's hard to believe that this area used to be a nomansland ten years ago.
[Reine at Potsdamer Platz (photo by Sandra)]
I want to be a Marilyn
Have you ever wondered what Victoria has under her skirt? Now you know.
[The statue of Victoria at the top of Siegessäule]
Edge of civilization
This is what you get for ascending 285 steps in a narrow spiral staircase. The angels in Wim Wender's Der Himmel über Berlin also met at this place.
[View from Siegessäule]
Trains of thought
This ruin used to be the largest train station in Europe.
[Anhalter Bahnhof]
How fragile we are
Imagine that such a thin piece can block so many people.
[Remains of the Berlin Wall at Zimmer Strasse]
Duck tales
A distant relative of Donald Duck. Same temper, different shirt.
[Zoologischer Garten]