Yesterday late afternoon we took one of our many walks right from home, and this time I did not forget my camera. First by the Xmas Market on Gendarmenmarkt and the French Dome (in the back of which - same building - is another church where Senta and Stefan got married), by the Holocaust Memorial and the American Embassy to the Brandenburg Gate.
The Brandenburg Gate:
And then walked back on "Unter den Linden", the main thoroughfare and these days another big construction site to connect the U5, one of the Metro lines that runs solely in East Berlin and ends at Alexander-Platz, to the Brandenburg Gate and the Haupt-Bahnhof (the main train station which lies in West Berlin). One side of the street is closed to traffic so the street was eerily empty, but nice for biking. The stores are touristy and sell the kind of stuff nobody needs. However, someone surely would like a bear - the symbol of Berlin - especially the one dressed for rain that we found along the way.... We crossed over the Spree (a miniature of D.C.s Potomac), by the construction near the Dome (the equivalent of the National Cathedral), by yet another Xmas market and stopped at one of the typical Berlin Gasthauses for dinner. Yumm!
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