D17&18 Berliner tour

12/28&29 Big snow, –20 degree crzay
Berlin

I had 4 days in Berlin. The city’s full of stories and tourists especially in new year period. On the first day, we joined a walking tour by NEW BERLIN, the English tour guide took us to most of the important attractions around the city he provided many historical facts and stories about the wall. And the 2nd day Jurij took us to Potsdam, we visited the main streets in the town where he spent his senior high there and the Palace of Poussin king. But the rest of the days we stayed in the warm hostel, doing nothing but sleep or chat, so that I haven’t post any articles these days. Cold weather, –20 degree mad people lazy.

The English guide talked us about the history of the Branden Gate.

And people listened carefully.

The memorial designed by an American archetechtor.

But a perfect place to snow fight.

The billboard talked the history.

People stood in front of the peaceful scene of Utopia world.

A girl’s mourning.

Berlin bears were everywhere in the city.

The wall divided the country into 2 different worlds.

Check point Charlie, everything’s fake…

Mini is owned by BMW, according to our German friends, it’s girl’s car.

One of the most significant building.

Statue to everyone hurts during the war.

The Berliner Dome, a church built in 19th century.

Walking green man appeared in every traffic light.

Blurred TV tower.

My dinner, curry wurst, awesome!

One of the best wurst i ever had.

We had a vodka party after we went back to our room.

The next day, Jurij took us to his place.

We digged the snow first, Paul totally good at it.

In the park, everything’s covered with snow, so fairy tale.

It was minus 9 degree, and we were walking in the snow for 2 hours.

How to get warmer? Jump!

And taking group shots.

BTW, this house was belonged to Princess Sisilia?

Also where the Potsdam agreement was signed.

Then we went to Dutch town for Kaffee.

The German still talked about history :P

It was warm inside and outside.

The car from eastern German

The hunting gate, where people went out for hunting.

Every scene was poetic.

And we went to the Russian colony, people played Chinese martial art.

Then the palace.

We jumped into the snow, and make 3 snow angels.

Walking in the evening was fun.

The Palace in the night.

Anyway, I was lazy to write something significant but let the pictures flow throught the post. We had a high time with Jurij and he’s so awesome to show us around his hometown. Too bad that we didn’t make it to see each other again or Nora in new year, but still, it’s nice to see friends.

Paul didn’t let us to cut his hair. Damn it!

D16 Snowglobe

12/28 Snowy, I havent seen the sun for almost 1 week…
Prague, Dresden, Berlin

It takes about 6 hours of train from Prague to Berlin, so I felt like to find a place stop to rest. After search on the map, I got Dresden and Leipzig in my list. Germans don’t recommend Leipzig, they said the only thing I could see is the stupid bronze animal band, instead, they like Dresden. It is said Dresden is Florence in the east, the art capital of Germany. Sadly it was once destroyed by bomb in the second world war, but the government tried hard to reconstruct the attractions.

Hmmm, I don’t really know these buildings.

I arrived the city in the afternoon, have no ideas about what or where to go. After asking the infos from the information center, the lady told me that walk along the road, after 10 minutes of “pleasant walk” the old town will appear. I took a Deautsch map and then start my 10 mins walk.

Restaurants

I realize what do her mean by “pleasant walk”: there are main shopping streets consist of 5 to 6 malls on the road, even you don’t plan to buy anything, window shopping would be enough. Furthermore, after-Christmas sale had started, almost every shop showed the sign of 30%, 40% or 50% off, so that many residents came out for some fun.

Finally I arrived the old town area, and was amazed by the beautiful scene of the buildings. There was a trio played Vivaldi’s summer made the atmosphere elegant.

Statue

I walked to the river side and the weather the snow started to fall. The famous Dresden flow slowy under the famous bridge. All the buildings, statues and gardens were covered with heavily snow. It’s a beautiful town in snowglobe.

Christmas market with meats!!!!

Heading for Frauenkirche

The Frauenkirche was one of the most attrations in Dresden. Built in the 18th century, the church was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. It has been reconstructed as a landmark symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies. The reconstruction of its exterior was completed in 2004, its interior in 2005.

Martin Luther statue in front of Frauenkirche

Frame of scene

Zwinger

It was cold outside, I walked until barely feel my toes then heading for Zwinger. Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister had the world famous painting, the Sistine Modanna.

Sistine Madonna

The two angels below Madonna were famous for the vivid expression. While listening to the the audio guide, I sunk into the ancient world. I like the gallery and the surrounding of the museum. Just like National Gallery in London. Still, I’d like to share some funny paintings here.

The enthroned Madonna with Saint Matthew by Annibale Carracci

Look at the angel in the bottom of the canvas, the angelic face but with muscle body like Pascal Frey, totally weird.

noli_me_tangere_hi

If you didn’t know the guy was Jesus, it would be the cover of one erotica…

trinkender_bacchusknabe

Don’t let your baby to drink wine, coz that would be wasted. They drink and pee at the same time.

Tintoretto_Jacopo-Women_Playing_Music

Ancient girl band usually don’t wear anything. What a good  old time!

peterpaulrubens_the_drunken_hercules

Next time you get hammered, please call your friend in advance. Or the next day you’ll find yourself sleep naked on the street.

Sleeping and Rest Venus

People got different views toward the same person, Venus for example, is she enjoy herself or waitinf for you?

Anyway, Dresden is a small city but worth to spend time in most of the museums. I wish that I had more time here to see the galleries and have some local food, but the train ticket had booked so I left the city in 7pm, heading for Berlin.