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Berlin, Germany - 25th January 2013

By: MA_17

Hey friends!

Today I did my first walk through my hometown Berlin. It's the capital and biggest city of Germany!

First I walked through the district Charlottenburg, but I think it's a bit boring. Nothing interesting around me.
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This is the Central Station. It is the main railway station in Berlin. 1,800 trains call at the station per day and the daily number of passengers is estimated to be at 350,000! 
From here you can do non-stop travels to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Novosibirsk (Russia) or Astana (Kazakhstan).
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I found some water. As a turtle I love water! That one is called Spree. It is the main river of Berlin. It is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) in length. There's so many ice on it, I think I'm NOT going to swim there.
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Next to the river I met a tiny lovely guy. Can you see that little dark point in front of the tip of my nose? It's a wild rabbit. That little guy was watching me for a while. :)
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Then I saw another famous building: the German Bundestag, which is located in the Reichstag Building. The centrepiece of the building is the generously glazed chamber that is crowned by the dome. A funnel with panes of mirror glass reflects the daylight from above into the chamber.
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In Berlin you can visit a square with tonz of stones! It's the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial. It is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It consists of a 19,000 square metres site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m.
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I found the Victory Column. It is a major tourist attraction to the city of Berlin. Berliners, with their fondness for giving nicknames to buildings, call the statue Goldelse, meaning something like "Golden Lizzy".
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Ouh, Berlin has more than one river. This is another, smaller one. It's called Landwehrkanal. It seems to be cold, too!
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I went shopping to the KaDeWe! It is the most famous department store of Berlin and the largest department store on the European continent, famous above all for its gourmet food department on the sixth floor.
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The streets around the KaDeWe look nice, too.
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Shakespeare

* Posted Jan 25, 2013, 10:32 pm Last edited Jan 25, 2013, 10:46 pm by MA_17 [Quote] Go to the top of the page


 

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