BERLIN! day 1

First stop in Berlin was:

This is a photo of the sign in the subway..ooh. How exciting! If only we understood the signage!

€6,20 gets you a day pass on all the public transport and it was well worth the while. School children only pay €4,40, but it doesn't say anything about being a school child when you buy the ticket at the machine, so on our second day in Berlin we wondered why we hadn't bought the cheaper ticket on the first day...hmm. Dumb tourists. Fortunately nobody ever asked for our tickets and the only person who saw the tickets was the guy at the backpackers help desk, who then explained the difference to us.

Potsdamer Platz is, as Tash would say, really shiny!

And there are some really intense buildings, like this one. I thought Niel was going to leave me for it. He couldn't stop staring

But by far the most impressive was the sculpted grass

Geometric grass

En route from Potsdamer Platz to the Jewish Memorial we walked past these two interesting buildings..ying and yang. We both like yang. Ying looks like a stranded super yacht.

I really enjoyed the Jewish Memorial. Niel, on the other hand, had looked at the sections..apparently a dead give-away

Looking grave

Next on our tourist trip: the Branenburg Tör

It's almost time for the German elections and the political campaigns are quite amusing. The poster above left us both wondering what exactly more Germany wanted..hmmm

Sight-seeing for those who can afford it. Horse-drawn chariot in-front of the Kennedy's museum. We didn't go in. Visiting and american museum in Germany just doesn't make any sense

Me on my horse-drawn chariot visitng the Reichstag

Niel achieves shallow depth of field

Back at the subway

Unter der Linden is one of the main streets in Berlin. It got its name from the lime (linden) trees planted on either sides of the road by Wilhelm the great in the 1700's, transforming the street into a grand boulevard. Unfortunately, Hitler favoured visibility to grandeur and had the trees felled to expose his marches

Reason number 2 for coming to Berlin: our visit to IKEA. Now where's that train?

Yei! We bought everything... plus a trolley. Now to get it across the city to the backpackers and then to Dessau and then to Brauereistraße...and then to Röttgerstraße. Phew!