Archive | September, 2014

Berlin 2014

28 Sep

Hotel
The Apartment Hotel Berlin Hackescher Markt was a wonderful place to stay. Near to Hackescher Markt and S-bahn station. See area on OSM map @ lat 52.522, long 13.374.

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Hotel and spa from sidewalk with pink flower pots.

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Hotel lobby

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Room included a kitchen

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Microwave

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Terrace off of room on 6th floor

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View of Radio Tower


Food
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Bread was nice, always fresh baked.

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Fresh fruits at KaDeWe department store

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Käse – cheese decorated for gift giving

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Chocolate bread at our local coffee shop

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Herrentorte

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Meat of many stripes. There was a Vega festival going on at Alexanderplatz, but never found it.

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Swedish Knäckebrot

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China Wurzer spice. Translation please?

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Currywurst Museum


Buildings
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Hamburg

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Glass lobby with reflection

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Bauhous curvy wall

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Dresden

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From the bus window

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Center courtyard

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Palace

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People on street

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Catholic church

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Porchelon wall

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Christian II and Johann Georgi

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Dreseden Porcelain of pug for 789 euros

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Many wind turbines in Brandenberg between Berlina and Dresden


Museums
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The Pergamon Museum is set to close soon for a five year renovation. We were lucky to get inside. With a three hour line

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My next favorite museum was Alte Nationalgalerie Found Portrait of Johann Gottfried Schadow (1832) by Julius Hübner of Düsseldorf school of painting.

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Portrait of Kaiser Franz I. von Österreich (1832) by Friedrich von Amerling

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Bust of Richard Wagner

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The Philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel (1831) by Jacob Schlesinger (1792 – 1855)

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Portrait of Theodor Mommsen (1897) by Franz von Lenbach (1836 – 1904)

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Soviet Memorial in Tiergarten

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Soviet tank in Tiergarten


Bundestag @ Reichstag building
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Reichstag front

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Reichstag roof with the glass dome Cupola

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Inside Reichstag Building included ideas by Norman Forrester, architect.

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Stone the shape of Louisiana inside Reichstag

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Seats of German parliment, the Bundestag

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Christian Boltanski‘s metal boxes for democratically approach representatives from 1990 to 1999.

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Angel Merkel’s box in Boltanski’s work

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Lightbulb from display by Boltanski.


Posdam

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King’s Palace

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Marble Statue

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Marble Statue

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Roof

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Inside

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Inside above door

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Clock on mantle

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Clock and Frederick

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Clock and paintings in red room

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Clock in another red room

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Painting Gallery (room for one more?)

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Outside Painting Gallery

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Fountain

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Chinese Palace

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Tea room inside Chinese Palace

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Outside Chinese Palace

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Marble Statue

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Leaving King’s Palace and the wool slippers behind.


Around Berlin

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Shopping

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Meiner Green book covers of Paul Ricœur, Mose Mendelssohn and John Stewart Mill

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Gritty door

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Street art with tongue and bowtie

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Checkpoint Charlie circa 1961

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memorial

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Orange chairs

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Abrham Lincoln – Change Everything

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Circus school

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Face missing eye

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Older woman

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Boy with tape on his face

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Red Berlin bear

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25 Year Celebration of Fall of the wall in 1989

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Pink Trabi

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Trabi on wall

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Orange beach chairs

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Sculptures in the river

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Motocycle helmet with mask

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For love of classical music – three opera companies and seven professional symphanies.

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Contruction and blue water tubes

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Street signs – name changes for each block

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No smoking sign on train

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Model train in underground station with simulated fire

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Radio Tower from East Berlin

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Refection in car

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Self-portrait

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Puddle

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Rainy night before dinner

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Fabric store, organized neatly

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Berliners love BBQ, taking classes at night at the academy

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Weber Official store

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Foosball best played before the BBQ

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Closefup of foosball in grill
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Spree River at night

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Sunset

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Chus until we meet again!