Photo Journey: Berlin Day One

Icelandair. Business Class. 

Yummy.

One of the churches in Berlin.

The building in front of the church with the grey squares is one of the Opera Houses in Berlin, with some of the smaller performances.

Church from the other side of the street it is on.

The date on the church was 1981-1985.

So many of the older buildings were under construction.

The city approved a facelift of most of the older buildings for Berlin’s 750 anniversary.

Gold plating.

No idea if it is real or not.

I also have no idea if the church was damaged in the war, but my assumption is that it was.

Above a random doorway.

It’s a very pretty church.

They certainly knew how to build structures hundreds of years ago.

Without modern conveyances. That are still standing.

Can’t really say the same of a lot of our modern buildings.

Course, we are an planned obsolescence society.




This was the wall of the performance house.

It said opera house on the outside, but it’s not THEE OPERA HOUSE.

That one is pretty unique.

But then, so is this one.

As far as I could tell, the grid is steel. 

In memory of the Emperor of Prussia and Germany Wilhelm Konig.

Donated by the whole German people the first Imperial Wilhelm memorial church.

During World War II, on the night of November 23, 1943, She was destroyed in an air raid.

The tower of the old church is meant to remind the Court of God, that in the years of the war, it broke over our people. 

Reminder to the Court of God



Probably one of the most unique buildings I’ve ever encountered.

Kinda artsy



One of the malls, or maybe a transportation hub, since they are kind of the same, had a wall of windows overlooking the Berlin Zoo. People could sit in what was basically a food court and watch the baboons play on the other side of the glass.

I got food at the Hard Rock Cafe, after taking the train to a stop close by, and then also picked up a hat for Hard Rock Berlin. Some day I will have something from every Hard Rock Cafe in the world. :) One of the things that was pretty interesting, is that the smell and taste in the food and drink that I had such a hard time with in Düsseldorf was not as overwhelming in Berlin. It was still underlying everything, but very subtle, and it didn’t make me sick like the last time. They have so many trees, with huge Linden forests, and some oak, chestnut and pecan (from the shape of the nut - I guessing) all throughout Berlin. It was a very pretty city and their transit system is much to be admired. I had no problem going any where I wanted in the city. Google maps did a great job of allowing me to sort by walking-train combination and got me everywhere I needed to go.

I was pretty wiped by the time I got back to the room. It was getting dark and I had been up for 30 hours by the time I crashed.