Berlin Sightseeing!

Finally here, writing you about Berlin sightseeing tour I had with Taika Sedai. :D This is the last time I'll update my blog from Berlin, because tomorrow we will travel to TV.net Summer Euro Party in Jugendburg Rotenberg, about an hour away from Frankfurt am Main. I'm so excited to meet Tower people again, after such a long time!

Anyway, off we go to the sightseeing tour. Here we are, planning to get going with Taika Sedai's favourite way of traveling, the bicycle. :p The pic is from the back yard of her house.

First we're going to see the Mauerpark, where the Berliners have left some of the old Wall as a memorial from the time of division. People like to make graffities and writings overall it. Here I'm posing in front of a random graffiti.

Then, we went to the castle and palace of Charlottenburg. We didn't visit inside, but the park was quite fancy. They had a lake in there:

And also very Baroque style garden. This summer has been such a dry and hot one here, so the gardeners had to be watering the flowers and lawn all the time.

This is the front gate of the Charlottenburg palace. Lots of other tourists here, too.

So... Next to Alexanderplatz! Here is a good example of Janus face of this city: some places are really beautiful and well cared for, but others are like this. In the background you'll see the famous Berlin TV tower. The irony is that it was built in DDR (an officially atheistic state), and in the light of setting sun the construction of the ball reflects a cross. But quite awesome, isn't it!

And another famous Berlin sight, the Welt-Uhr, or World Clock, situated in Alexanderplatz. This was the end of our trip, we didn't go to see Brandenburger Tor, or Siegessäule (which is under construction right now), which is too bad. But I think this is good, too. :D

As a conclusion, I'd say Berlin is a fascinating city; you can meet all kinds of people here, from the trendy young families in Prenzlauer Berg are to the punk rocker people with scary looking dogs, hanging around U-bahn or S-bahn stations. Surprising amount of people don't speak English, but they are in general very friendly towards foreigners. The beer is good here, too!

But as I said, tomorrow brings a change for me and I'll say goodbyes to Berlin; I'll be leaving Taika Sedai and travel to Sweden with Thalya Sedai. Though before that, there's the PARTY!!!!