After spending the day in Postdam, we settled in for the night at the beautiful Camping Sanssouci zu Potsdam. The next morning we were up and at it, headed for the trains to take us to the amazing city of Berlin. Since I'm following up with this in now October and not June, when we were there, I can tell you that these pictures only become sweeter and sweeter to me.
We spent the morning catching the trains and doing a great bit of walking to get to the Brandenburg Gate. In awe, we stopped at this lovely cafe in the west of the city centre at the junction of Unter den Linden and Eberstrasse.
Here we had curry wurst mit pomme frites, beer, cappuccino and waters for lunch while taking in the people of the city. It was one of those picture-perfect days. Not too hot. Not too cold. Little birds begging for nibbles of pomme frites. People coming and going. Eavesdropping in conversations that we truly had no idea what they were saying. Just the hustle and bustle of busy life going on all around us!
These are tour bikes!
There's a cool story behind this television tower. It's commonly referred to as The "Pop's Revenge". It's a stainless steel dome (the highest structure in all of Germany) and when the sunshines on the dome, no matter where you are in the city, the reflection usually appears in the form of a cross. All during The Cold War, lots of money was spent trying to get rid of the reflection of the cross; yet it still prevails.
Lunch... we even got a table!
Patience hanging out
People watching
Trabant, East German car
All through our trip, we saw people who were painted and dressed up like statues. It was amazing when you weren't expecting it, a statue would change positions.
Another "statue" man... I caught on that if you look for the Tip cup, it's not really a statue.
German Pretzel from a street vendor
The remains of the wall
On the other side of the Brandenburg Gate from where we had lunch, there was a huge TV screen streaming in European soccer tournaments. The energy level of the German soccer fans was amazing.
The dog had the largest face EVER! Of course Matthew and I had to go grab a quick pet.
