Welcome Britannia to Berlin! Here are the intrepid bunch all ready for a day at Sanscoucci! I told them all I wanted a 'Sound of Music' photo - most cooperated ;)
Could you get a more 'appropriate' photo?
Part of our visit included the Orangerie - palace and greenhouse to the Prussian king...
In order to visit Sansoucci and the Orangerie you have to wear these high fashion Schuhe - get them now before EVERYONE's wearing them!
Here is the Neues Palais - we were disappointed because it was closed, but in a way that was a good thing. The group by this point was 'dragging' (important footnote - if anyone reading this wants to come to Berlin and I say/explain that 'I will walk you so hard you'll be begging for mercy!' that is NO joke and you should make your preferences known at that point ;)
These are statues on the 'Chinese House' - China was the true 'exotic' back in the day and all the nobles liked to decorate according to their understanding of the culture back then...
David Richards created a relationship between the word 'Frederickan Rococco' and 'camp', so whenever he said 'Frederickan Rococco' we all laughed! Poor, poor Frederick....
So, the group was dragging, 'all we had seen were more and more palaces' - I just found it hilarious, they all turned into little kids and had SO MUCH FUN with this 'whispering gallery'....you know when parents say 'I just give my kids a box because they have more fun with that than the toy?' Well....
So people were feeling fresher the next day and there we are about to embark on our 'Free Berlin Tour' which began at the Brandenburg Gate.
They took us to Hitler's bunkers - right under the ground are his bunkers where he married Eva and then killed himself....
We went by Checkpoint Charlie - that is not the 'real' Checkpoint Charlie guard post, but that is where the real one used to be....
On the other side of that picture of a US soldier is the picture of a Soviet soldier....
This is the Berlin Wall - took the 'remaining' group (many had left us by Monday) to a memorial to the people who tried to escape from East Berlin and right beside is a part of the Wall that remains - not much left of the Wall to be honest in Berlin...
And then to end the Tour de Berlin, we saw some of what 'West Berlin' was made of - and here I am eating my 'leg o' pig' with all its disgusting fatiness (pork rinds smell) - this is kind of a 'Berliner' dish....the other one would have been boiled and I decided that probably wasn't wise ;)
Goodbye Britannia! Hope you had fun!
