1. This is a city I would definitely want to return to; no, I think I would NEED to return to.
2. U-Bahn and S-Bahn systems beat London's Underground hands down.
3. What the hell is the matter with my luggage? Just take a look:
No clothes! Or at least, everything that I actually NEED is buried under tea and instant coffee. There is a certain dance theory professor in Taipei who is going to pay through the nose for all that instant coffee!
I took the easy way out of the tourist's job and took a guided free (sic) walking tour through the city center. The tour only passed by the Wall, the faux Checkpoint Charlie, and ended on the Museum Island; the guide was actually quite good, very humorous, and I got to try out my German in translating a bit of Heine at a memorial.
All things aside, the Holocaust memorial near the Brandenburg Gate offers quite a lot of opportunities to play with lines and light:
Our wonderful guide: (he said the tour was basically free and that he worked solely for tips, I gave him €10, but he really did such a fantastic job I really think he deserved more)
Later on I returned to the wall to see the Topography of Terror exhibit there, and also took a few more snapshots of the Wall and the fake Checkpoint:
The east side of the Wall is almost bare, while the west side is covered with graffiti - don't know if the graffiti here is "authentic" though.
Also, the American Checkpoint Charlie now flanked by McDonalds, oh the irony; further down the road is a Starbucks:
Also, a free Ai Weiwei banner in front of one of the museums:
Just another testament to the significance of Berlin in the human pursuit of freedom.
-- from NK Wang's iPad
Location:Berlin
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