Berliner Dom on Museum Island
27th-30th November 2008 - Berlin with Mike & Mo
Weekend away in Berlin with Mike &
Mo. stayed at the Kempinski Hotel Bristol (excellent and good room rate deal on
the internet!).
Weather was freezing!
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the first day we did a guided walking tour of all the main sights in both
East and West Berlin - about 5 hours. Berliner Dom on Museum Island |
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| The holocaust monument | |
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| The secret underground station - Unter den Linden. Closed until unification even though the tube trains continued to run through it. | |
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| Brandenburg Gate | |
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| Reichstag and its new dome designed by Sir Norman Foster | |
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| One of the last remaining bits of the Berlin Wall | |
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| The unique 'traffic light man' as used in East Berlin. The West Berliners liked it so much that it is now been installed in the Western bits of Berlin too! | |
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| Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche is a bombed out church left as a monument to the futility of war. On Kurfurstendamm - close to our hotel | |
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| Christ above the altar in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche | |
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| Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtnis-Kirche by night | |
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| The same view up Kurfurstendamm at night | |
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| Gendarmenmarkt 'one of Berlin's most beautiful squares'. Franzosischer Dom with the Christmas market in front | |
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| Enough Christmas decorations for a thousand trees | |
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| Christmas markets everywhere. | |
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| Potsdam is about a 30 minute drive from Berlin. This is the Schloss Sanssouci and the view from its terrace | |
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| Back in Berlin. Charlottenburg at dusk | |
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| Charlottenburg at night | |
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| In the Christmas market in front of Charlottenburg | |
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| Dinner in the Orangery of Charlottenburg | |
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| Performance in Charlottenburg of Mozart, Handel and Bach | |