We found most of the art to be quite inspirational.
This is a very iconic scene. We had even bought a postcard of it before knowing of its origin.
The woman is real. She added to the picture!
The
back side of the wall was left open to the graffiti artists, and they
struck with full force.
Does anybody know that person in the upper left?
In the background: The German National Bird
The construction crane
Berliners have a clever term for everything.
This
part of the Wall is on the bank of a river, which was the actual
border. Once we got to the end of the Wall, we came across quite a
marvelous scene of brick bridges and towers, some of which had
featured in the artwork. And we consumed another curry
wurst.
Looking up at the back side of the Wall from the river
The amazing Oberbaumbrücke (bridge), along with a floating hotel made up of two anchored boats
Then
an uncaptioned walk along the rather funky Skalitzer
Straße to a subway stop in a Turkish part of town.
After
a brief subway ride and a walk along the river, we were at the Reichstag building with its
recently added
(post-Wall) glass dome. We had hoped to take a tour on previous visits but the
lines were much too
long. Seeing no lines this time we thought we must have won, but we
learned that now they were
using timed tickets, the
tickets were gone for today, and they were only available at inconvenient times
tomorrow. So, next time we’re in Berlin we will get our tickets on
Day One of the visit.
An Orangina and a beer, some sketching, a walk to the subway station, and back to our hotel.
The Reichstag on the right, and the new Bundestag on the left
At the subway station
Streets in the Bundestag area are named after renowned statesmen. Nearby are two more such streets, named after John Foster Dulles and Yitzhak Rabin.
The day concluded with a very ample dinner at the Black and White Turkish restaurant.
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