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2007 Berlin

June 14th, 2007 Leave a comment Go to comments
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An aeroplane
Airport
U-Bahn station
U-Bahn station
U-Bahn station
Alexander Platz U-Bahn entrance
Fountain at Alexander Platz
Big radio/observation tower thing
Warning: roadworks
Unter Den Linden
Polizei!
Mike walking in his flat cap. He was working undercover as a Brit.
Me taking a picture of Mike taking a picture
That beautiful building again
Beautiful building though we never figured out what it was
Tour boats on the river. THere were hundreds of them.
Beautiful building though we never figured out what it was
Beautiful building
Beautiful building though we never figured out what it was
Beautiful building
Egyptian museum
Egyptian museum
Egyptian museum
Violinist and guitarist playing classical music at the Museumsinsel
French art museum at the museumsinsel
Beautiful building though we never figured out what it was
Egyptian wall piece
Egyptian head
Egyptian head
Egyptian head
Egyptian head
Egyptian head
Egyptian head
Egyptian wall section
Nefertiti, 'husband' and children
Nefertiti
Nefertiti
Nefertiti striding
Nefertiti holding hands
Anubis
Papyrus
Mini sphinx?
Egyptian sarcophagi
Egyptian sarcophagus
Egyptian coffin
Egyptian wall section
Egyptian wall piece
Egyptian statues
Ceiling in Egyptian museum
Ceiling in Egyptian museum
Beautiful building
Fountain outside the beautiful building
Fountain outside the beautiful building
Fountain outside the beautiful building with a strangely blue tint
You can't fool me, that's not a proper wall.
Cool manhole cover
Ferrari shop
Lunch in the rain
Some pasta-y meal
Brandenburger Tor
Brandenburger Tor
Brandenburger Tor
Band playing behind the Brandenburger Tor
The floor
Archway
Side of Reichstag
My slant on the Reichstag
Reichstag
Reichstag et moi
Buildings near the Reichstag
Buildings near the Reichstag
Frieze at the Reichstag
A view along Unter Den Linden just East of the Brandenburger Tor
S-Bahn station (?)
Ruins of a church near Zoologischer Garten
Church ruins near Zoologischer Garten
Mercedes building
Official speaker hotel for FFmpeg?
Church ruins near Zoologischer Garten at night
Church ruins near Zoologischer Garten at night
Mercedes building
Church ruins
Church ruins
Church ruins near Zoologischer Garten
Train stuff at the technical museum
Train controls
Leaf-spring suspension on a train
Train engine
Stereoscopic photos in style!
Pigeons are conspiring against us.
Under a train
Turbine?
Water wheel at the technical museum
Bottle washer
Brewery
On top of the brewery section of the technical museum
View from the top of the brewery
Overgrown window
Wooden floor tiles with grain running into the floor
Model boat
Model boat
Model boat
Model boat
Aeroplane engine
Aeroplane
Die Welt balloon from a distance
View from the technical museum
View from the technical museum
Berlin
Aeroplane innards
V2 rocket engine
V2 rocket engine
V2 rocket fuel tank
Saturn 1 rocket
Mechanical stuff
Boat
Cloud chamber
Important-looking building
Die Welt (German newspaper?)
Nature behind bars
Berlin mauer
Berlin mauer
Berlin mauer
Near the large section of Berlin mauer
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie sign
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie
Berlin Mauer plaque
Lime tree (?) at Unter Den Linden
Lime (?) trees on Unter Den Linden
Unter Den Linden
Unter Den Linden
Nature behind bars
Statues on top of a building
Large building on Unter Den Linden. A museum possibly.
Humboldt University
Statue outside the Humboldt University
Statue at Humboldt University
Statue at the end of Unter Den Linden
Museum?
Statues atop a building on Unter Den Linden
Columns and mantle
Statue atop another building
View along the river
A view along the river
Some clock tower that loomed up on the skyline
Clock tower on skyline
Big tower at Alexander Platz
Power adapter chain used by a couple of US Americans in a hostel to charge their iPod. Efficiency?
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Me at holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Me at holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial. Reichstag in top left.
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Holocaust memorial
Brandenburger Tor
Brandenburger Tor
Pergamon Museum
Roman friezes
Roman friezes
Roman friezes
Roman friezes
Roman friezes and columns
Roman friezes and part of a building entrance
A model of the Roman building seen in the other photos
Roman columns
Roman columns and mantles
Roman mosaic
Roman wall section
Roman archway
Venus (I think)
Roman statue
Hot or what?
Roman statue
Dionysus?
Roman statue
Name plaque - Dionysus
Roman statue
Pots
Detail floor mosaic (macaw?)
Roman frieze
Roman frieze piece
Roman room
Roman mosaic floor
Roman mosaic
Assyrian wall piece?
Roman columns
Roman columns
Roman archway
Roman room
Assyrian castle-style archway
Assyrian carving
Assyrian statues
Model of Babylon
Egyptian wall section (?)
Indian fireplace-looking thing. Very ornate.
Indian wooden carving
Indian fireplace-looking thing
Some Indian coins (I think)
Indian writing (?)
Indian fireplace-looking thing
Very intricately carved Indian wooden window frame
Indian carved wooden window frame
Very intricately carved Indian wooden ceiling
Assyrian column piece
Intricately carved Indian wooden wall plaque
Assyrian wall
Assyrian wall section
Indian writing (?)
Indian art of dancers
Indian King?
Roman mosaic
Building overgrown with plants
Three consecutive 'f's!
'Trapped' under a bridge by a thunderstorm
Roberto trying to keep dry
We got swamped by surface water from the thunderstorm
The booth
Funkturm at night
Diego's flamboyant beer + lime drink. Tasty.
Diego and his drink
Moon
Moon
Vegetarian restaurant in Berlin, who'da thunk it? It wasn't meal time though so I didn't go in.
Diego in a Russian hat (courtesy of Roman or one of his friends)
30 minute staring contest between Attila and Måns that ended in a draw
Mike's talk
Mike's talk
The crew
Attila's electronic musings
Touchdown! Another of Diego's cocktails.
Diego and cocktail (and his friend in the background)
Diego and some coconut cocktail
My own touchdown.
Me (just), Takis and Baptiste
A tree
Ubuntu sponsored barbecue
Ubuntu sponsored barbecue lift shaft
Ubuntu sponsored barbecue (outdoor cinema screen?)
Ethereal glow
An old but very comfortable chair, worthy of having its photo taken
Dangerous-looking electronic thing with valves and callipers
Diego, Ben and Oded
ICC
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
ICC
ICC
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
Me at the Funkturm
Ben and Oded at the top of the Funkturm
View from the Funkturm
Oded and Ben and the holocaust memorial
Reichstag
Ben and luggage
Fare looking West from Brandenburger Tor
US and Russian soldier uniforms at Brandenburger Tor
Brandenburger Tor
Ben in front of the church ruins
Oded and Ben at the church ruins
The lottery is really taking off in Berlin
Lottery going big
Amusingly small vehicle
 
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