Tag: Berlin
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Take me to Church
This church was about 2 blocks from our apartment. It was stunning and we were drawn to the repaired hole in the side from damage during WW2. We did a little research and found that it has an impressive organ (teehee), and on Thursday evenings they do a playing open to the public. Aside from…
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Remi
For dinner we went to Remi in Berlin, a Michelin star restaurant. I didn’t take a single picture even though every dish was beautiful, so photos are from others off the internet. We sat outside at a little wobbly table on metal chairs covered with a cushion barely more than a cloth. David had a…
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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall stood from 1961 to 1989, separating West Germany from East Germany. It was torn completely down by 1994, only a very small portion of the original wall still remains. In short, the wall was put up and guarded by East Germany to keep the people from fleaing to the west. The area…
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Pink pipes – Civil Engineering
We stumbled across a system of twisting and turning pink pipes that made no hydraulic sense to my civil engineering brain. They don’t drain, they are way up in the air, the head loss must be atrocious, what is happening here? I looked it up and found that it is a pump system for dewatering…
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Berlin Walk
The Memorial to Politicians who Opposed Hitler was our first stop today. There were 96 congress members who opposed Hitler when he was first brought to power in Germany. Note, Hitler came to power with only 33% of the popular vote, a case in favor of rank choice voting if I have ever heard one.…
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Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church
On our way to dinner tonight we also found The Kaiser-Wilhelm church. Built in 1890-ish and destroyed during WW2. The ruined tower was left as a memorial and reminder of the cost of war.
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Berlin site seeing
We walked all over Mitte Berlin today. So many things to see. I found a yarn store and bought some lovely soft fingering weight in mustards. We were concentrated near Museum Island and the Spree River. Good food and shopping here. We used public transportation, both the underground and the light rail. Most of the…
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