Back in Berlin! I have to say that I was excited, once I got there and got over the terrible flight and the following nausea and everything else. I got to see more of the city than what I had during my exceedingly brief 60 hour excursion from my summer abroad, and that made me happy. Above is the church that was bombed during World War II that has been left without its top as a memorial to that time. This is in the western part of the city.
This has got to be one of the most bizarre pictures I took. That is the statue of Marx and Engels as seen from behind as they look on in the direction of Alexanderplatz and the tower there, which seems to be disappearing in the clouds. It was snowing that morning -- that light, quiet kind of snow that made it a pleasant morning for a stroll.
This is the angel atop the Siegessaeule, which stands in the western part of the city, but is not far from Unter den Linden, where the Brandenburg Gate is. Maybe Wim Wenders was on to something with his "city of angels."
I thought it kind of funny that the Reichstag still had its Christmas tree out in the middle of January. The picture is a little bleary because the afternoon was a little bleary, but I thought it was still a pretty scene.
This was one of the cinemas I visited while I was there for my work -- Hackische Hoefe. Cool place. You walked through this gate and then into a courtyard, and the entrance was through some double doors and up several flights of stairs. I saw a documentary here one night, and the director was actually there for a discussion with the audience afterward. Very cool.
This is another movie theater I visited -- called Babylon: Mitte. I saw a couple of films here as well. I liked this one a lot too. The theaters were small and the atmosphere was fun. This was also where many of the films from East Germany used to debut back when Germany was divided.
This is a view of the relatively new memorial to the Holocaust that is also not far from Unter den Linden -- just down the street, actually. I like this place. It is an odd sort of contemplative spot in the middle of a very busy city. The strangest was when I went the last time and was there early in the morning.
This is a close-up view of the Quadriga that is on top of the Brandenburg Gate.
This is what one calls good timing. On one of the sunny days, I happened to be passing through here when the sun was in this spot. I thought it made for a cool picture of the gate.
This was a somewhat "grungier" cinema I visited with my host sister one night to see a film. It may look a little scary on the outside, but it ended up being fine. Lots of graffiti. It was also a small place. Unlike most cities in the states, there were many small theaters in Berlin that I visited -- more so than the mulitplexes. There was also more of a variety of films to be seen there, which was cool.
This is inside one of the old East German "secret police" (Stasi) prisons. The group took a tour there and got to see the inside of several buildings. It was kind of creepy. Some of the rooms looked just like the sets they used in
The Lives of Others.
The Berliner Dom -- also not far from Unter den Linden. It's a great big church. Yeah. I liked this view of it from the bridge
Back in Berlin! I have to say that I was excited, once I got there and got over the terrible flight and the following nausea and everything else. I got to see more of the city than what I had during my exceedingly brief 60 hour excursion from my summer abroad, and that made me happy. Above is the church that was bombed during World War II that has been left without its top as a memorial to that time. This is in the western part of the city.
This has got to be one of the most bizarre pictures I took. That is the statue of Marx and Engels as seen from behind as they look on in the direction of Alexanderplatz and the tower there, which seems to be disappearing in the clouds. It was snowing that morning -- that light, quiet kind of snow that made it a pleasant morning for a stroll.
This is the angel atop the Siegessaeule, which stands in the western part of the city, but is not far from Unter den Linden, where the Brandenburg Gate is. Maybe Wim Wenders was on to something with his "city of angels."
I thought it kind of funny that the Reichstag still had its Christmas tree out in the middle of January. The picture is a little bleary because the afternoon was a little bleary, but I thought it was still a pretty scene.
This was one of the cinemas I visited while I was there for my work -- Hackische Hoefe. Cool place. You walked through this gate and then into a courtyard, and the entrance was through some double doors and up several flights of stairs. I saw a documentary here one night, and the director was actually there for a discussion with the audience afterward. Very cool.
This is another movie theater I visited -- called Babylon: Mitte. I saw a couple of films here as well. I liked this one a lot too. The theaters were small and the atmosphere was fun. This was also where many of the films from East Germany used to debut back when Germany was divided. 
This is a view of the relatively new memorial to the Holocaust that is also not far from Unter den Linden -- just down the street, actually. I like this place. It is an odd sort of contemplative spot in the middle of a very busy city. The strangest was when I went the last time and was there early in the morning.
This is a close-up view of the Quadriga that is on top of the Brandenburg Gate.
This is what one calls good timing. On one of the sunny days, I happened to be passing through here when the sun was in this spot. I thought it made for a cool picture of the gate.
This was a somewhat "grungier" cinema I visited with my host sister one night to see a film. It may look a little scary on the outside, but it ended up being fine. Lots of graffiti. It was also a small place. Unlike most cities in the states, there were many small theaters in Berlin that I visited -- more so than the mulitplexes. There was also more of a variety of films to be seen there, which was cool.
This is inside one of the old East German "secret police" (Stasi) prisons. The group took a tour there and got to see the inside of several buildings. It was kind of creepy. Some of the rooms looked just like the sets they used in The Lives of Others.
The Berliner Dom -- also not far from Unter den Linden. It's a great big church. Yeah. I liked this view of it from the bridge
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