My favorite parts of Berlin

This was the most moving place in Berlin for me, as it probably would be for any German.  It's a mixture of pride and shame and both are entangled in the aura of the place.  So much sadness and so much hope in that city.  This place just keeps picking itself up.  The Tiergarten Park is a good example.  It was a beautiful park with ancient trees and lakes before the war.  Now the trees are only 50 years old.  In 1946 the park was completely razed for firewood and Berliners grew potatoes all over the park.  In 1949, they started planting trees again.

My favorite photo's of Berlin:

Tribute to the wall and all who died there....

Middle section of town

Typical East Berlin government building

Sections of the wall that are now the worlds largest open air art museum

Of course there's a currywurst stand right in the middle

Someone purchased a section of the former no-mans land and is building a condo.

Great view onto the river Spree

Berlin's Macy's

Art and the Berliner Bear

two bears

Reichstag

View from the Bahnhof

Reichstag, Federal Building...like congress

Concert Hall

Presidents Palace, for entertaining foreign guests

Sieges Saule (Victory column)

oldest department store

Marien church

Apple rules!!

old section of wall

Brandenburg gate facing east

Art standing in former East Berlin

me too.....love it!!

our tour bus

Gedechtnis Kirche

Always demonstrations going on.  Note the signs

Variety of architecture

The "bauhaus" structure around the church is being taken down!

old Berliner Beer Hall

love this old gate

Holocaust museum

Artur's waiting on the bus