Berlin

Hallo People "Leute" !

I do appreciate the time you all spend here. Sometimes I felt really surprised, when people I didn't really knew before, told me: "I like your blog, I'm following your writing". Well, of course they knew through people I already know, but still such an a lovely feeling to hear it for people you meet for the first time!
I mean seriously, I thought only few friends "Freunde" are following this blog. I felt so happy to hear this few times from people I meet for the first time, vielen DANK :))

Now I'm back in Yemen. Missing is huge to Stuttgart.. it's normal feeling I think, but I really had an extraordinary remarkable 3 months there. A lot of memories will -without any doubt "kein Zweifel"- remain for lifelong. I was talking with a close friend about his, she said me something really nice: "You created life in Germany!"  I think that's very precise say.

Today I'm writing about a subject "Thema" waited too long to be posted. Actually many were asking me when I'll post it! I'm late because of many reasons & lately I had no wish to write anything.. writing is a matter of desire anyway.

Well, it's about Berlin. I had an amazing trip "Reise" with dear Hans Krämer to Berlin about a month ago. It was my second journey to Berlin after the first trip to meet other participants of ifa Crossculture program there.

This time with Hans, I (I can say WE, certainly) had a wonderful time there for 3 days. I wouldn't imagine a better trip to Berlin than the one we had. The most wonderful thing was the chance I got to meet and to know really wonderful friends of Hans. They welcomed us and we spent the whole time with them. Hans lovely friends are dear Snadra & Dear B and dear Dorothee.

Well, like always :P , I invite you to join me and browse the Berlin trip visually through pictures "Bilder" :)

In Stuttgart airport "Flughafen", we traveled to Berlin by plane "Flugzeug", that was much much better than train for sure :D

Just taking offfff :D "abheben"

If I remember good, Hans told me this's Neckar river.

I was sitting next to the window :D

Now we are above the clouds..it's venerable view..I felt!

BERLIN ^__^

We bought 3 days ticket & without losing any second, we headed to Checkpoint Charlie, a famous attraction point in Berlin

We got a City Tour ticket, a bus drove us through most of the important places of Berlin city..we spent about 3 hours in that tour. Here you see famous famous of the remaining part of Berlin Wall "Berliner Mauer"

O2 is my internet provider..not bad!

Somewhere :P

I like it :)

Of course in the bus you listen an explanation for all the places we pass by, I forgot which Church is that. Next to it you see the famous Fernsehturm Berlin "Berlin TV Tower"

This is really beautiful "schöööön"

I was focusing on taking pictures more than listening..so enjoy the picture without details hahah :P

Not good picture, I just like the woman looking at us

It must be really famous building :/

HEY HEY LEUTE, this is the Humboldt University of Berlin :))))

baaaack there you see the Brandenburg Tor :)

on the right you see the BIG American Embassy, just next to the Brandenburg gate

You'll see many pictures of the gate ..

There was a protest against Iranian regime, organized by Poople's Mujahedin of Iran

We cross the gate, there you see USA embassy in the back

French Embassy of the left..

verrry famous & verrrrrry expensive hotel next to Brandenburg Tor, Hotel Adlon

the Gate from inside :)

lieber Hans :)

This is me with TEDxAden event logo, my personal support for the event :)

You can take pictures with solders wearing the army costumes of the countries were here during division of the city

USA & Soviet Union flags

DDR Flag 

Solder was "flirting" with the that beautiful girl , DDR is part of history for sure!

:D

we walked to a place next to the parliament, there was a memorial to the Sinti & Roma..

touching words..

they were murdered under the National Socialism, the Nazi

That building is the Parliament or the Reichstag building .. I think making this memorial just next to is means a lot

The wall of the memorial place

....

History is history, it's a matter of how you look back and learn from it..

names of the victims..

peace upon your soul..

It's very simply & nicely designed memorial

Description of the memorial

Then we headed to the nearby Reichstag building, Hans looking at it..

The Reichstag, house of the Bundestag 

another view of the Reichstag

Just in front of the Reichstag is the Bundeskanzleramt, in English is Geramn Chancellery

Reichstag far away from the Bus

:)

The Großer Stern "Great Star" in the Großer Tiergarten

This is a very famous street.. I really forgot the name :(

I'll remember the name of the street...

So beautiful

:)

So luxury street :P

It's Christmas time of the Year

That was sooo..sooo much :D

Really such a beautiful piece of light

It's pretty long street

piece of Art

That's CDU head-office :P 

They were in first place in the last general election

That's the Film museum Berlin 

Beautiful building

Next to it is Berlin Philharmonic ..WE WERE INSIDE next day :P

that's POTSDAMER Platz back there :)

Again the beautiful Philharmonic building, I went to a piano concert with Sandra next night :)

The big building in Potsdam platz is Bahntower

:) :) 

Bahntower ...really big!

the famous Potsdam Bahnhof

I could not catch the whole building in one picture :)

See the balloon back there :P

it was landing :D

Next day we went to visit the Reichstag ..we used the new main station "Hauptbahnhof" of Berlin to get there

Next to the station, Spree river 

Here where Angela Merkel works :P

NICE :)

Again, the house of the Chancellor of Germany

Dem Deutschen Volke means "to the German People"  it was added on 1916 after long struggle with king Welhelm II who didn't wanted such sentence anyway. 

Waiting our turn to enter 

Flight Crew taking picture in front of the Bundestag 

The square in front of the Bundestag

We are inside :)))

The main hall of the Bundestag, with more than 3 Million visitors per year, it's the most visited Parliament in the World!!

We are inside the hall now, it was day off for the members. We sat in the visitors seats

the famous roof of the Bundestag :)

Me looking to the German Eagle

I really love the design, it's really good to work there hahahaha

:)

Seats..close up :P

the president of the Bundestag sit on the large seat in the middle

Well done!

:P

Then this lovely lady came to lecture us about the Bundestag and the Reichstag

The cards they used during voting

to the right of the Bundestag presidency, sit the government, again the big seat is for the Chancellor

And to the left of them sit the Bundesrat, again the big chair if for the president of the Bundesrat  

Then we went up to the famous DOME :)

It's really amazing place

beautiful design, good job Mr. Norman Foster

:)

Top of the dome

Me in the Top of the dome

Dear Hans

picture from UP -DOWN ;)

Coooool

*__^

You can not get bored of it..

That's really amazing..woow

I'm there..see the MIRROR :P

come on..see GOOD !

Ok..closer :P 

One of the four towers of the Bundestag. That was the one where the Soviet union Flag was raised after WW II, a famous picture from history. 

Back there you see Charite Hospital, the best in Germany  :))

next to the entrance of the Bundestag

Roof of the entrance..

I don't know what these letters means..!

HALLLLLO!

I really like it..

magnificent building..no doubt!

Small memorial for the members of the Bundestag who were arrested and killed by National Socialism "Nazi"

their names written on the plates

their names...

I like this picture..

Again we went to the Brandenburg gate :)

we went to see the Brandensburg gate station underground

To see the paining inside it..and some famous words about Berlin

This is emotional for many Germans

Then we headed to Palace of Tears "Tränenpalast" near Friedrichstraße station, the picture is old view of the station

view from last century

nowadays view

inside the Tränenpalast, it was a border checkpoint between East & West Germany

I can't describe it...one must visit it to feel it.. really worth visiting 

last day we spent it walking & some shopping

That was so funny to see :D ! On the wall of the Taz magazine "Die Tageszeitung" there is a famous sculpture knows as "Friede sei mit Dir" represents Bild chief editor.

in Checkpoint Charlie there were flags of tens of countries. Yemen flag was there :P

Checkpoint Charlie was the first & last point for us in Berlin :)

In the end I'd like to clarify, that I didn't mention many details because they're pretty private for me and for the others as well.

Also I'd love to say:
Herzlichen Dank lieber Hans, You knows how much I'm grateful for You..
Herzlichen Dank liebe Sandra, I am happy I left a "friend" in Berlin..thanks for everything :)
Herzlichen Dank liebe B.,You're so lovely person, I can't imagine how our trip to Berlin would had been without You!!
Herzlichen Dank liebe Dorothee, I'm so happy to get to know You. We met again in Stuttgart..I'll write about that in another post ;)

Vielen Dank an euch alle..!