Germany - Berlin

Okays… I’ll start with three things which are completely irrelevant but cute/interesting… haha, firstly their traffic light!

See the green man?

Now the red man!

The second thing is that while we were in Berlin, the sun was super strong and it was actually hot! I didn’t have to wear my jacket! For the first time in Europe I walked out of my room (in this case hostel room) like as if it was Singapore. And guess what? I got sunburn! So fun! But even though it was “hot”, it’s still not like Singapore hot. Haha.

And the third thing is… guess what? The world is getting small, seriously. Cos I crossed paths with Michelle in Berlin! Goodness! Haha, again nice to see a familiar face!

Ok back to serious stuff. Berlin is a very historical place… and I totally loved learning about the history! Gosh… I think I’m still a history bug at heart. Haha. I’ll love to share all about the stuff I learnt… but that will make my blog too wordy. Haha, so sadly I’ll have to skip that… anyway, here are some of the many pics!

Holocaust Memorial – this design for the memorial has a lot of symbolism… and it was inspired by the Jewish Cemetery (which was the one I visited in Prague! – this is why I said to take note of that picture)

Brandenburg Gate*

Berliner Dom

A lovely rainbow which was in the garden (Lustgarten) in front of the Berliner Dom

A memorial to the books Hitler burnt… it’s a room of empty shelves build underground at the spot where the books the burnt. Again, it has a lot of symbolism involved.

Gendarmenmarkt – there are two identical churches here facing each other (again for historical reasons)

Close up of one of the churches

The Berlin Wall - with Yvonne and I doing a wu liao pose. Haha.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church*



Siegessaule

Reichstag*

On top of the Reichstag

Inside the observatory… can you find mini me? Haha I doubt it.

Ok! Serious stuff over. Here are some pictures of a chocolate version of some of the above places!!! Amazing right?

Brandenburg Gate

Reichstag

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

And of course… food!

My third ice cream in Europe! This one is the cheapest and really nice to eat! Again, it’s Italian ice cream… =)

This is a famous currywurst store (the hostel people told us)… currywurst is a sausage (Germany’s famous for that) with curry ketchup and curry powder on it.

This is a super yummy kebab! It’s very very nice to eat lo! As a side note, Germany is the one which started the doner kebab (bread with the meat)!