Thursday, 27 June 2013

Berlin - Part II: East Side Gallery

The Berlin wall, which parted Germany, fell during the night to the 9th November 1989. Back then I was nine years old and I can actually remember it very well.
I was getting ready for school and had the TV turned on. The news were on and I saw pictures of thousands of people standing on the wall, walking the streets of both sides of the wall and the eastern German army giving up on trying to keep the people of the east in their part of the city.
There were strangers hugging each other as if they have been friends forever, sharing tears of joy, because Germany was one again.

In most parts of Berlin you can't see that this city was once divided into two. There are only a few bits and pieces of the wall still in the city.
The largest stretch is the East Side Gallery. The street (east) facing side of the wall has been painted by many many artists showing their understanding of the peaceful revolution which took place in Germany in 1989.
The western side of the wall was already painted, well....let's say sprayed, as the people from the west were always able to walk right up to the wall. That wasn't possible in the East as a 'death zone' was leading up the last meters to the wall.

Here are a few pictures of the East Side Gallery:
































Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Berlin - Part I: Sightseeing

My long weekend in Berlin has just been awesome, wicked, perfect! 
Had such a good time with the girls in Germanys Capital.....we have done and seen so much and enjoyed every single minute of it. I wanna show you a lot of pictures, so I am splitting the trip up in different posts. 
This first post is all about sightseeing. 
I lived in Berlin for three years, so I was the tour guide for the weekend. Brought the girls to all the places you just HAVE to see when in Berlin. 

So here we go, the highlights of our sightseeing activities in pictures. Hope you enjoy them! 

Streetart on Alexanderplatz

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Fernsehturm - TV tower at Alexanderplatz

 Weltzeituhr - World Clock at Alexanderplatz




Building side of the rebuild of the Berlin Castle


Berliner Dom

Museumsinsel


Detail of Berliner Dom

German history museum

Willy Brandt Museum - Picture of the moment when he made history

Brandenburger Tor - Brandenburg Gate


Holocaust Memorial





Left foot in the west - right foot in the east


Reichstag - German Parliament




Streetart at Oranienburger Str. 


Very German balkonies