Days in Berlin, Germany

I just returned from Leipzig, from the Games Convention. I am going to put together in a third and last post, what we did in our visit to Berlin during a couple of days some weeks ago. Then I will write about the convention in Leipzig.

In our past visits to Berlin, we never visited the sections of the city where you could still old parts of the Berlin Wall. We decided to look for them, with the help of our Lonely Planet. Outside the tourist path in Berlin East, using the Tram, you can get to one area where there is a monument, a rebuilt church that used to be the middle of the wall, and a museum.

This is the view of how the division was in the middle of the Berlin wall. It is not a nice story but it is good to get to know, to read about and to see and feel. If you stand next to the wall, see how big it was and get a small feeling of how it used to be, when Germany was divided in two.

As I mentioned previously, my wife likes to see the cities from the buses, the trams or metro that does not go underground. In Lisbon, we used to take the tram very often, with no intention of going anywhere, just for the feeling and to see the city from a different perspective. In Germany is the same. In Hamburg we try to avoid going underground, and we like to take the bus whenever we have the chance. In Berlin we took the bus several times. As I mentioned before, the 100 and the 200 line buses.



Here is a video of the bus driving out of Unter den Linden, and we can see the Berliner Dom, the TV Tower (Fernseheturm) of Berlin and where the palast der republik used to be before it was demolished. I still got to see it some years ago. An ugly building.



And here is a video of Potsdamer Platz. At the end of the video you can see the reflection of our camera.

For the next day, we choose to go up to the top of the Fernseheturm. We were not thrilled by the long cueues to get into. But we could not do much. We had to wait around 30 minutes, but it was worth it. The decoration inside, is very 60's-70's as you can see with the diagram of the Tower, that indicates how fast the elevators go, if they go up or down, or where in their way they are.

More about my last day in Berlin, in my next post.