Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Day 1 running into 2 or it might be three


I have lost track of time,  and for those that know me also know how unusual that is. My brain is scrambled eggs right now with a big dollop of emotionality so please bear with me.  
This is the end of my travel days and first day in Berlin, when I got into town I could only focus on the heat which seemed rather boring and inconvenient. But  after I found my accommodation, napped and consulted Rick Steves; I have found Berlin to be larger than life.  Not on a Vegas way but in a WOW so much modern political struggle (and engineering of mass murder) happened HERE.  So that is where the emotionality is coming from.  I feel blessed by her almighty to witness and humbly start to process the human suffering, anxiety, indignity, courage,  kindness, apathy, mean spiritedness and tragedy which came to an ugly head RIGHT HERE!  Tomorrow I'm going to experience more of Berlin and might have more feeling words to describe my day, thanks for checking in.   Here are some pics that I took on an early evening walk.  
Oh YES!  The humidity just broke and it's raining:)




Reichstag
Brandenburg gate
My tired self at the Brandenburg gate

 A very nice church near museum island (I don't know the name). 

3 comments:

  1. Is the Reichstag the location of the famous photo of the Soviet soldiers in 1945 raising their flag over the captured city?

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  2. It was beautiful. And yes, the reichstag is the location of the 1945 picture. must have been a tenuous climb because the dome had already been bombed out.

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