Berlin
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The central train station is an imposing glass and steel structure and a fine example of German engineering.
Next to it is a modest little funfair, quite a juxtaposition!
Der Reichstag! symbol of German brutality.
The House of World Cultures. Bauhaus inspired design perhaps. The perfect marrying of form and function.. or something like that.
I think this sign was in the huge Tiergarten park, I love the gothic font used here, symbolic of Germany. I saw it a lot all over the city.
Looking down a classic German road, as straight and efficient as can be. Taken from the top of the Victory Column. It was a battle to get up there, we had to ascend hundreds of steps while bundling past hordes of tourists.
Silhouette of the column. On top is the Goddess of Victory, built to commemorate the victory of some war or something back in the 1800’s.
The symbol of Berlin, not quite sure why. These are dotted throughout the city and each are decorated uniquely.
An officer of the Stasi secret police. They kept those Berliners in check.
Checkpoint Charlie, the crossing between the American and Russian sectors. Where people were smuggled through using all kinds of elaborate methods, if they weren’t catapulted over the wall that is. I could have had my passport stamped here, but decided against this pointless tourist trap.