So my last night in Berlin I was rushing to get things done and like 'a moth to the flame' I just saw all of these 'lights' and followed...
As I followed a Christmas market, I saw a mall and thought these lights were loverly...
'Oooch Tannenbaum, Oooch Tannenbaum..."
This is Potsdamer Platz (Potsdam Square). It was 'No Man's Land', i.e. one of the places the Berlin Wall ran through Berlin. Now it's 'capitalism galore' ;)
Remnants of the Berlin Wall that ran through the Platz...
And there is a Christmas market through 'No Man's Land'...I just find that so crazy and how worthless conflict is...40 years people would have loved to have walk across this area and now there are parties, food and fun times....I'm glad, but sad....
The world-famous arteest, Christo, struck again! This time he's covered the new American embassy...I hope I don't get in trouble for this one (Brad?) :(
There is the Brandenburg Gate with a Tannenbaum....
Here is Unter den Linden - one of Berlin's historical main streets....all lit up, WUNDERBAR!
Here is a Christmas market along Unter den Linden. The whole place was full of booths, lights and best of all - FOOD! ;)
There are some of the booths with East Berlin's TV Tower and Berlin Cathedral in the background... I like this picture....
These guys are the Berlin Fire Department Band...I was their lone fan...I think they were a bit startled when I started clapping for them ;)
This is Schloss (Castle) Bellevue - the residence of the German president (head of state), NOT the German prime minister (head of government)...
Germans luv their Tannenbaums....
Here is yet ANOTHER Christmas market in Berlin more near where I live....
Kind of foreboding pic, but that's the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church that they left like it looked after WWII with another Tannenbaum...this one from Bavaria....
