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.
Hotel and spa from sidewalk with pink flower pots.
Terrace off of room on 6th floor
Food
Bread was nice, always fresh baked.
Fresh fruits at KaDeWe department store
Käse – cheese decorated for gift giving
Chocolate bread at our local coffee shop
Meat of many stripes. There was a Vega festival going on at Alexanderplatz, but never found it.
China Wurzer spice. Translation please?
Dresden
Christian II and Johann Georgi
Dreseden Porcelain of pug for 789 euros
Many wind turbines in Brandenberg between Berlina and Dresden
Museums
The Pergamon Museum is set to close soon for a five year renovation. We were lucky to get inside. With a three hour line
My next favorite museum was Alte Nationalgalerie Found Portrait of Johann Gottfried Schadow (1832) by Julius Hübner of Düsseldorf school of painting.
Portrait of Kaiser Franz I. von Österreich (1832) by Friedrich von Amerling
The Philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel (1831) by Jacob Schlesinger (1792 – 1855)
Portrait of Theodor Mommsen (1897) by Franz von Lenbach (1836 – 1904)
Soviet Memorial in Tiergarten
Soviet tank in Tiergarten
Bundestag @ Reichstag building
Reichstag front
Reichstag roof with the glass dome Cupola
Inside Reichstag Building included ideas by Norman Forrester, architect.
Stone the shape of Louisiana inside Reichstag
Seats of German parliment, the Bundestag
Christian Boltanski‘s metal boxes for democratically approach representatives from 1990 to 1999.
Angel Merkel’s box in Boltanski’s work
Lightbulb from display by Boltanski.
Posdam
Clock and paintings in red room
Painting Gallery (room for one more?)
Tea room inside Chinese Palace
Leaving King’s Palace and the wool slippers behind.
Around Berlin
Meiner Green book covers of Paul Ricœur, Mose Mendelssohn and John Stewart Mill
Street art with tongue and bowtie
Abrham Lincoln – Change Everything
25 Year Celebration of Fall of the wall in 1989
For love of classical music – three opera companies and seven professional symphanies.
Contruction and blue water tubes
Street signs – name changes for each block
Model train in underground station with simulated fire
Fabric store, organized neatly
Berliners love BBQ, taking classes at night at the academy
Foosball best played before the BBQ