2006 Nov Berlin

	James, Nancy and myself in Atlanta Airport	where I'm staying, Citystay Hostel (single room, my room has a balcony that is inside the courtyard)	TV tower and 13th century Marienkirche (St Mary's church) considered Berlin's 2nd oldest church after the Nikolaikirche
	river Spree	Berliner Dom , The Berlin Cathedral cuta a majestic figure in its prime spot on Museumsinel.		Completed in 1905 in ornate Italian Renaissance style, this was where the royal Hohenzollerns-the Prussian royal family worship
Altes Museum (Old Museum, 1830) was the first exhibition space to be built on Museumsinsel.		Humboldt Universitat (University) Berlin's oldest university. Albert Einstein taught here for 18 years	Sankt-Hedwigs-Kathedrale, (St-Hedwig-Cathedral 1773 giant copper dome overlooks Bebelplatz)	Franzosischer Dom (French Cathedral) completed in 1705
Gendarmenmarkt is Berlin's most beautiful square created in 1700	One of Schinkel's finest accomplishments, the Konzerthaus (1821) Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester is here	Deutscher Dom (German Cathedral) 1708		Checkpoint Charlie
		Checkpoint Charlie		you are entering the American sector carrying weapons off duty forbidden obey traffic rules.
Berliner Mauer 1961-1989 (the bricks alone the road and the sidwalk is where the Berlin Wall was standing)	man selling pieces of the wall ( I think his name was Frank but I don't really remember)	Berlin Wall
me at the Berlin Wall				former Reichsluftfahrts Ministerium (now home of the Fedral Finance Ministry)
Holocaust Memorial took 17 yrs of discussion, planning and construction, but on 8 May 2005 the memorial to the Jewish victims	of the Nazi-planned genocide of WWII was finally dedicated. it occupies a space the size of a football field	2711 rectangular concrete blocks of varying height positioned on undulating ground as thought it were some giant cemetery		Unter den Linden
Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate)				Johann Gottfried Schadow's Quadriga, a sculpture of the winged goddess of victory piloting a horse drawn chariot
colum of the gate			new US Embassy being built	Reichstag
	walking the glass dome on top of Reichstag
putting up the Christmas lights	ok, getting hungry and there was all these outside market stalls with food and selling things, so I choose this one	everything written in German, so I just choose these potatoes fried in who knows what but they were delicious	potatoes, onions, kraut, looks like some kind of meat and some kind of sausage thingy	this was right where I got off the bus at the Hildebrand Str.
Tiergarten, 167 hectares one of the world's largest city parks	Siegessaule (Victory Column) 5 large roads merge into the roundabout called Grosser Stern	triumphal column commemorating successful 19th century Prussian military exploits notably	over Denmark 1864, Austria 1866 and France 1871	the larger gilded lady on top stands 8.3m tall, predictably represents the goddess of Victory
exotic elephant gates marks the gateway to the Berlin Zoo		rare giant panda donated by China
	Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (1895)	destroyed in 1943 by Allied bombs, the husk of the neo-Roman-esque church's west tower	is one of Berlin's most haunting and enduring landmarks.	it's now home to a Gedenkhalle (Memorial Hall)
the ceiling	Jesus Statue	ceiling
	KFC in Berlin (no, I didn't eat here), "Europa Center" in the West Berlin City near Kurfuerstendamm	KaDeWe, 2nd largest consumer temple in Europe (Harrod's of London is #1)	7 floors of everything, 6th floor is the Gourmet Food department	Christmas tree where you walk in one of the doors
			freshly renovated, chalk white, neiclassical palace is the official residence of the German president	built in 1785 by Philipp Daniel Boumann for the youngest brother of Frederick the Great
Adlon Kempinski (hotel) Berlin's most high-profile defender of the grand tradition has been a celebrity magnet since first	opening its portals in 1907. Faithfully rebuilt after the fall of the Berlin Wall		Pariser Platz
		built in 1818 the neoclassical Neue Wache (new guardhouse) was Schinkel's first major Berlin commission and is now a memorial to	the 'victims of war and tyranny' the inner courtyard was covered in 1931 leaving only a skylight which now spotlights	Kathe Kollwitz's heart-wrenching sculpture Mother and her Dead Son, also known as Pieta
		the pink building is the baroque Zeughaus, a former royal armoury completed in 1706.	IM Peri Bau designed by the Mandarian of Modernism	Berliner Dom
Fernsehturm (TV tower) is Berlin's tallest structure, soaring skyward fro 368m	Berliner Dom	Altes Museum
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