Berlin impression

Arrival Berlin airport and sunshine just stop, wet ground.

The sky is grey, the rain seems to be down at any time. At the airport Gate sits on a hotel taxi, slowly to the city centre. A quiet, tree along the street, though it is on the wane in late autumn, but with a few wisps of winter at once. To enter the city center of Potsdam (Potsdamer) Street only point popularity.

I live in NH Hotel in Leipzig Street (Leipziger Str.), distance from the famous "bodhi (Unter den Linden)" street only 15 minutes walking distance.

Here is the reunification of Germany in front of East Berlin's land. Off the map, Berlin's main monuments are in East Berlin. Soviet Red Army entered Berlin, head up the initiative, good things to do in their bag.

To read some of the Berlin before, but here is not clear what exactly want to see.

The hotel is settled after midday, the priority is to solve the problem of the stomach. The hotel along the Friedrich (Friedrich) road towards the "Linden" Boulevard direction, along the many shops, restaurants, cafés, is hilarious. Gendarmen go along in a circle, there is one of the sights of Berlin, Germany Cathedral and concert hall, the momentum of the magnificent. The Church behind the small wood, golden color for dark autumn adds some angry and vitality.

Mr. Zhu ziqing, "in Berlin is spacious, clean streets, London and Paris are not comparable."

And to the most spacious "Linden" Boulevard, did not think than Paris Xiangshe Lai Xie spacious, but the latter to many busy busy, busy from morning to night, jammed, street cafes are usually overnight service. "Linden" the lonely much, perhaps because the tourist season, not many tourists. But I think more importantly Berlin is far from a tourism city. To Berlin is see? I myself had some pondering Ferdinand. The city does not have too many places of interest, also not what cuisine. The Museum's collections, but far from and to Paris, London, New York, the Metropolitan. Really worth a look, the remaining Bo Jia Meng (Pergamon) Museum, there are several very magnificent historic building: ancient Greece of Bo Jia Meng Hall, was built over 200 years ago; Babylon to color he gate (the Ischtar Gateway); and Jordan of Musa his facade (Mschatta Façade).

Perhaps history, especially of the Nazi and cold war history, is the city's truly see the point.

Majestic Brandenburger Tor is the dividing line between East Berlin, universally known by the Berlin wall is built on the Western side of the door. Now the wall has been removed, but history is not forgotten. The small square near the Pro iron fence erected a statue in front of a wooden crucifix, fence with photos and text descriptions. Those who are cold war attempt to go over the Berlin wall from East Germany to flee to West Germany's victims. Although a drizzle rain proclaimed, there is still a lot of people stop to watch, to give the deceased a commemoration.

From the Brandenburger Tor, a few minutes walk to the West, a 19th century building in the immediate, which is Germany's Parliament House (the Reichstag).

In 1933, "Congress arson" took place here. Arson causing has not yet, but at the time of the incident to Hitler a pretext, the charges attributable to the Communist Party of Germany, the Communist party leaders were arrested, the prohibition party's participation in elections, and thus further the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. As a sliding door, hundreds of people line in the rain waiting in queue, from the above glass dome overlooking Berlin, you can leisurely sit down for a cup of coffee, both from above to watch the Berlin scene. I crowd isn't waiting, just how many of these people know or remember what happened here and its brought to Germany and Europe's disaster?

From the Capitol building along the River to the East a few hundred meters, paragliders and across the River, the bridge on the South, there is a not-so-handsome railway station, red brick base after rain scrub has become a dark red and black, the above is the iron frame and glass hybrid structure, black ash tone in the late autumn especially dark and rainy.

The railway station is the cold war, the dividing line between East and West Germany, and also the connection of Eastern and Western Europe the only railway corridor. This station has been seen in many cold war spy movie description. A bridge between two worlds.

Rain, lower and bigger.

It was already dark, street lanterns, restaurants, bars, cafés, people in and out, a warm ambience transmitted from the inside out, and gave out food, wine and coffee's aroma. Yes, the Berlin wall has been removed for 18 years, or from the history of heavy inside out. I should find a place to sit and enjoy wine and food and the good life.