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Monday, October 24, 2005

Pictures from European travels - Berlin, Germany


Take a look at pictures from my recent trip to Berlin, a city still showing the scars of the 20th century. (Just click on the headline above.)

A couple of notes of interest:

-I was based in, and spent the majority of my time in East Berlin.

-as told by locals, East Berlin is more scenic because the former East Germany did not have any money to revamp or raze WWII damaged buildings. Consequently, there are more old streets and old buildings on the Eastern side.

-the most interesting thing that I saw didn't make it into the pictures. It was the Eastern culture, characterized by row upon row of uninspiring "Worker's Paradise" apartment buildings.
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