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berlin.

in early october n. and me made a trip up north to berlin. the main reason for this trip was the 15 year birthday show of 'dance of the vampires' in germany. n. is a huge fan of this musical and gifted me with an early birthday present ticket. we were greeted with beautiful sunny october weather and left in a grey and rainy mess.
two days are too short for this overwhelming capital city. maybe we will return in the future.


arrival at berlin hauptbahnhof ( central station ).

we immediately sat down by the spree. soaking up some sunshine.

town of many cranes.

this is the german chancellery. quite impressive. notice the litte trees growing on this building!



the reichstag from afar.

oh, we're coming nearer.

in the front of the reichstag. it was packed. we visited on german unity day, the streets were full of people celebrating.

standing under the brandenburger tor.

american, russian, french & german soldiers were everywhere.

the embassy of russia. a lot of golden details.





the roofs of the berlin cathedral. with the fernsehturm in the background.






right next to the cathedral is another museum: the altes museum ( old museum ).


you can see the fernsehturm from about every point in berlin. really.


me and nici in front of the old museum.



we decided to do a few jumping pictures :D

funny people on bicycles watched us.



in front of the rote rathaus.



finally we made our way to the fernsehturm on alexanderplatz, not the best place to be, but still impressive.

hello mr. joker. randomly found in a video store.

the skyline of berlin in the evening.

near the hauptbahnhof again. 

in streets of berlin. 

theater des westens. were the musical took place.


young-goon, the girl from 'i'm a cyborg but that's okay'.


 the next day we decided to go to the east side gallery. you can find some leftovers of the berlin wall there. on our way to this we had to pass through the karl-marx-allee and its russian monumental residential buildings.


there were a lot of good paintings on the walls near the east side gallery as well.




the historical 'wall'.


sorry. this turned out a bit pastel coloured.

nici is in the hood!










after our east side gallery trip we climbed the kreuzberg.

nice view on berlin on a bad weather day.

in the evening we went to 'dance of the vampires'. let's say it was quite an experience :D 

i leave you with unspectacular pictures of the interior of the theatre. there were no pictures allowed during the musical performance.

the next morning we had to leave quite early. i had to work in the afternoon. the bubble we were living in popped quite soon.

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