It's gonna be a blog full of pictures again.
My aunt and me in ICE. It's the freaking fast and expensive train taking us to Berlin from Brussels.
Cam-whore in the train.
Now you believe me? I told you it's fast. This train can reach 300 km/h or more but you don't feel a thing. Only thing you can feel is your ear drum gonna burst out from your ears but few rounds of Valsalva Maneuver should do it's trick.
After reaching Berlin check in to the B&B. Kena marah kao kao by the fierce owner because we didn't inform him earlier that my aunt is joining us. He is very unhappy with it, but he was okay after we agree to add 8 euros for the room.
He recommended this little restaurant in Falkensee. It has this very romantic atmosphere and the food was big even the big eater Jenq Uei could not finish his portion. And the goat cheese was yummy. I think I would enjoy Greece because of it's food.
It snowed silently at night. In the morning everything was covered with snow. It was so nice. Waiting for snow in Simferopol so we can go ski. But it seems that Spring Summer had arrived. wtf.
The train haven't arrived. so we decided to play with the camera. I love this picture. So romantic.
In front of Starbucks in Brandenberg Gate Berlin waiting for the walking tour.
Snowing heavily.
Hotel Adlon, the most expensive hotel in Germany. 35,000 euro per night. Obama Queen Elizebeth stayed here and MJ even throw show his newly adopted baby in this hotel balcony.
The famous Brandenberg gate. It was facing the palace but too bad the palace didn't survive WW II.
It was the place where the east Berliners and west Berliners first met.
Memorial of the murdered Jewish. Building this structure is controversial because it cost 22 mil euro and there is no signs of memorial to be seen. But the architect said that it's up to your own interpretation. Walking through this you feel lost and all the tall wall in this structure signifies the days where the Jewish were closed in the cell with four walls and barely had the space to turn around.
In my opinion, it's even brilliant if my whole class were there and we played snow fight inside. It would be fun!!
The memorial covered in snow.
Carpark? Hell no. Underneath is actually a bunker where Hitler get married and kills himself the same day.Poor Hitler was remembered by a big car park.
This building is one of the few that survived WW II. That's my cool tour guide form UK.
The remnants of the war is clearly seen on the wall. This building is actually the office of Hitler's transport minister.
Surprised why the picture is so well preserved? It is also one of the building that survived WWII. why? it served as a main landmark because it's huge and tall so that the air force knows that they've reach Berlin and drop a bomb at the correct place.
It is now the German income tax office.
Crossing road also wanna take picture.
Actually the traffic light in Berlin is very cute. It's a man wearing a hat. Ampelmännchen ( the little traffic light man) which is a symbolic person shown on traffic lights at the pedestrian crossing in the former German Democratic Republic( east Berlin).
So if you see any of these man in Berlin, you'll know that you are in east Berlin.
p/s: the picture on the below I took from the internet.
Pose pose posey. Below is remnants of Berlin wall. East Berliner before the fall of the Berlin wall would like to go to west Berlin ( love issues, better life there, family there) so the brilliants build a wall to prevent them crossing. They even made the top round so there isn't any grip to climb over the walls. All measures to make sure not a single soul could cross and go over to west Berlin.
This car made from fiberglass is a car from the past that many of the Germans yearned for. But you would need to wait for 30 years before you could buy one.
Checkpoint Charlie. Picture or Charlie there. It's the best well known crossing point between east and west Berlin during cold war.American soldier and USSR soldier will stand facing each other everyday during the cold war and will shoot if anyone walk pass the border.
Today there is no more soldier but stores selling USSR hat which cost 40 euro each. crazy. Rynok can get one for 100 Grvn. The picture stood there is the symbol of the days USSR soldier stood eye-to eye with the American Soldier.
Not to forget the famous Peter Fechter story whereby he was wounded in the pelvis trying to escape from east Berlin. He was left bleeding to death because no one could help him. American soldiers could not rescue him because he was a few yards inside the Soviet sector. East German border guards were reluctant to approach him for fear of provoking Western soldiers, one of whom had shot an East German border guard just days earlier. Over an hour later Fechter’s body was removed by the East German guards.
Have a break, have a kit kat.
Berlin, having a symbol of bear was believed to be named after the bear. BEAR-lin.
Hence bears everywhere. Cute?
Germany is famous for it's Christmas Market. You can know that you are approaching one by just smelling the air.
Berliner Dom. Magnificient.
Inside the church. Nice or not?
My taliban aunt and me.Excuse me it's winter and this is the only winter coat I brought.
TV tower build by the east Berlin (GDR government) tall enough so that the west Berliners can see over the Berlin wall and mainly to tell west Berlin: F*** you, we are stronger than you see, we can build this tall structure, can you?
Today it's non another viewing deck.
East side gallery. The well preserved side of Berlin wall. It's so nice and they got all the artist to repaint the wall because 2009 is 20th anniversary fall of Berlin wall, and we visited it in the last day of 2009.
I love this painting the most.
Very meaningful.
Currywurst, my darling favorite. The whole trip he keep finding this sausage.
Good bye Berlin, Good bye my aunt ( she is heading off to London) Hello Munich.
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