Munich Prague Berlin

Part 8

Nice guys.

Lunch here on the Neumarkt Plaza.

The young-uns ate separately.

A choir sang nearby.

The group meets to head on to Berlin.

We took the autobahn the rest of the way.

The usual fun at the ibis hotel check in.

Our room was small but nice.

The nearby S-Bahn stop had this bear and girl.

All aboard for a walking tour of Berlin.

New Synagogue of Berlin, built 1859-1866 (reconstructed)

Good dinner at the Oranium.

Neat car.

Reliza tells us about the Grosse Hamburger Strasse Jewish Memorial.

Courtyards behind buildings house restaurants, bars and art.

Our hotel is near Alexander Platz.

The next morning we took a bus tour of Berlin.

Our guide, Kevin was very energetic.

He took us to a park dedicated to the Russian WWII war casualties.

It was a large place.

Very large.

With very large monuments.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an

uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.

Check Point Charlie.

Just watching the world go by.