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Berlin, Germany - 14th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hey Mommy,
I'm in the middle of the city and there's so much nature around!
Also near 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).
There's Potsdam Square (somewhere behind me you can see Sony-Center).
This is the river Spree with a nice bridge. It is the main river of Berlin. It is approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) in length.
Here you can see the Haus der Kulturen der Welt ("House of the Cultures of the World" ). It is Germany's national centre for contemporary non-European art. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on non-European Visual Art and culture. This building is a gift from the United States, designed in 1957. John F. Kennedy spoke here during his June 1963 visit to West Berlin. To Berliners it is also known as the Schwangere Auster ("pregnant oyster" ). I found a funny sign. It is written in German and Turkish! In some areas in Berlin you have stores where everything is written in Turkish, can you believe this??? Btw the sign means: "Don't climb on the roof! Danger to life!"
Across from this building you can see the "Federal Chancellery". The inhabitants of Berlin call it "Waschmaschine" (washing machine).
I've been to 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.
My last stop was the Mauerpark. The name translates to "Wall Park", referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. Today the park is one of the most popular places for young residents of Berlin, especially from the fashionable district of Prenzlauer Berg, and attracts basketball players, jugglers, musicians, and many other types of people. It is a crowded leisure ground and a site of sustainable improvised nightlife, especially in the summer, and has also become notorious for Walpurgis Night riots in recent years. There are two stadiums next to the park.
Tittel-di-tüü-de-lüü
Woozy
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Posted Mar 14, 2012, 7:38 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 26th March 2012
By: MA_17
Today we did a goodbye-party for Pieksi. First all of us took a party-mug of each home area. Kirin couldn't find any Chile-mug, so she decided to take another one from South America.
Later we shared some sweets and hugged Pieksi.
Then he crawled into his envelope. We wish him a save journey.
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Posted Mar 27, 2012, 6:04 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 28th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mommy,
today I climbed up a hill. It wasn't easy!
But it was worth it! I had a wonderful view over the north-east of the city. Can you see the houses on the horizon?
The way back down was not better.
Yours, Woozy
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Posted Mar 29, 2012, 8:04 pm
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Oranienbaum, Germany - 30th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mum,
today I visited the area around the castle. At the moment the castle is closed because of winter time and we couldn't go inside. But we saw the castle from outside and went to its gardens. The Gardens had its origin in the 17th century, when the marriage of Leopold's great-grandfather Prince John George II of Anhalt-Dessau to the Dutch princess Henriette Catharina, in 1659 brought a team of engineers and architects from the Low Countries to lay out the town, the palace and a Baroque garden in the former settlement of Nischwitz, which was renamed Oranienbaum in 1673. The Dutch influence remained prevalent in the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau for many decades. Oranienbaum Palace was finished in 1683 as the summer residence of Henriette Catharina, where she retired after the death of her husband in 1693. From 1780 on Duke Leopold III had the palace and the park rebuilt in a Chinese style with several arch bridges, a tea house and a pagoda. In 1811, the orangery was built, with 175 m (574 ft) in length one of the largest in Europe, which still serves to protect a wide collection of citrus plants. It was too cold to go to the orangery! Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, inspected the restoration works on March 3, 2004.
This is the castle from the front:
Look, some of the windows are not real, just painted on the wall!
The garden view of the castle:
There's a fountain in the garden, but there's no water inside. It's still too cold in the night. When it is warmer there'll be also lots of palm trees in the garden.
Then we climbed up an old bridge.
And finally we saw the Chinese pagoda. It is so beautiful!
Under the pagoda we found a tunnel. Spooky!
There's also lots of water in the park, but I really don't want to swim in it. Looks dirty!
I also found some purple flowers and fulfilled one of my life missions. Poor flowers. After sitting on them they looked like stamps.
Yours
Woozy
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Posted Mar 30, 2012, 2:36 pm Last edited Mar 30, 2012, 3:14 pm by MA_17
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Gräfenhainichen, Germany - 1st April 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mum,
this evening I went to Gräfenhainichen, again. Last time I showed you the lake and Ferropolis.
This is the church Sankt Marien. In the night you can see spooky shadows of it in the sky.
And this is the Paul-Gerhardt-House. He's a famous man of the city.
Yours
Woozy
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Posted Apr 1, 2012, 10:42 pm
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