| Page Views: 131 Last Visit to Berlin: November, 2007 | BERLIN by wanderingbilly - last update: Mar 13, 2008 |
WALL TO WALL HISTORY. | THROUGH THE GATE AND INTO HISTORY.. |
FINALLY GOT TO BERLIN IN NOVEMBER 2007.. AFTER MANY YEARS OF WANTING TO SEE THIS HISTORIC CITY.
MY WIFE AND I ARRIVED IN A VERY COLD BERLIN BUT WHERE SOON WARMED BY THE WELCOME OF ITS PEOPLE AND THE PROSPECT OF THREE ACTION PACKED DAYS.
SO WITH A VERY LONG LIST OF THINGS TO SEE AND DO WE WASTED NO MORE TIME AND HIT THE STREETS UNITED IN OUR QUEST TO SEE AS MUCH OF THIS ONCE DIVIDED CITY AS WE CAN... |
| HONECKER AND BREZHNEV SEAL IT WITH A KISS !!! |
|  | THE EAST SIDE GALLERY. THE EAST SIDE GALLERY IS THE LONGEST SURVIVING STRETCH OF THE BERLIN WALL.
RUNNING SOME 1300M THIS SECTION RUNNING FROM STRALAUER PLATZ AND OBERBAUMBRUKE IS ONE BIG OPEN AIR GALLERY.
THE PAINTINGS ON THE WALL WERE DONE BY ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.. MY FAVOURITE IS THE MORTAL KISS, IN WHICH ERICH HONECKER AND LEONID BREZHNEV KISS.
THIS SECTION OF THE WALL HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS, SOME PEOPLE THINK IT IS FINE TO DEFACE WHAT IN MOST CASES ARE WORKS OF ART..
THE EAST SIDE GALLERY NEEDS SOME T-L-C...
BUT STILL A MUST SEE WHILE YOUR IN BERLIN.. |
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| Pros: | "HISTORY AROUND EVERY CORNER..PLUS GREAT PUBS !!" | | Cons: | "VERY VERY COLD IN WINTER..WRAP UP WELL !!" | | In A Nutshell: | "FROM THE WALL TO THE GATE..HISTORY AWAITS.." |
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