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The German flag flying from the Reichstag building.No-one truly interested in history should miss Berlin where the busy last century left its marks on almost every corner of the street. I have been postponing a visit for the last 20 odd years because I kept feeling sour for never having been there when the city was still divided into East and West. I Back then I didn't really care so much but in time I saw myself grow longing back to those bad old bi-polar days that smelled of brown coal, Trabants and Sauerkraut. I would have loved to peep over the wall across the "Todesstreifen", with the vopo's peeping back at me from the other side. I would have enjoyed the procedures concerning the crossing of the border and wander about in that funny environment, the DDR with it's empty shops and streets. After the unification a lot of money went into the City, which filled already most of the empty space around the Wall, the wall from which only few meters are still standing, together with one or two watch towers. But it's a bustling City, with plenty to see and do and with wonderful people living there.
View from the the top of the Dome down the Reichstagbuilding
The dome is a wonderful place full of interesting shapes and views.Not too much of the old Wall is still standing around, unless you have the time to travel to a fairly out of the centre place, which we hadn't.
So we only have some pieces which have been painted on both sides, which was impossible back in before '89.
Before you get bored by the usual shots of the usual landmarks, here's one,in chocolate.
This Schokolade Meister also cast the Reichstag, the Titanic and a huge Christmas angel in chocolate.
Almost as sweet as chocolate are the series of socialist frescoes painted on the former Reichs Luftfahrtministerium.
Isn't this good, clean fun?
Farmers, scientists completely agreeing on issues.
It was a serious building, a fact a couple of frescoes cannot hide.
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