Stutz and I are going to Berlin! We are travelling with the InterCity Express (ICE), a very fast train. It just took one and a half hour from Hamburg to Berlin. Here we are sitting on Katrin's boyfriend's arms.
In Berlin we had to go some stations by "S-Bahn" (kind of subway) to go to the hotel. At the station "Zoologischer Garten" we had to change the "S-Bahn" but we decided to spend some time wlking around. We saw this cinema called "Zoo Palast" which seemed to be an important place for people who like movies.
On the opposite side of the street we visited the famous "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche". The church has been build in honour to the Emporer Wilhelm I in 1891 and has been destroyed by bombs during the Second World War. Today there is a kind of museum in the hall of the church.
Katrin has told us about a special place to go for dinner and here we are: The Hard Rock Café in Berlin! Of course we had typical Amercan food, a big cheeseburger and french fries.
Then we had a look around the restaurant, it was so exciting to see all the guitars (yes, there was one from Bon Jovi, Katrin was happy) and posters, but the best place was this glass window with a picture of Elvis:
Guitars and a leather jacket from the German rock band Scorpions:
A broken guitar from Green Day:
The next morning Katrin had to go to the US embassy to apply for her visum to study for two month in the US. Katrin's boyfriend took us with him and we discovered this huge bear in front of a museum about Berlin history. On the bear you can see sweets which were droped by parachute. This is a symbol for the Berlin airlift in 1948/1949.
Later we met Katrin again and went back to the main station where we discovered another big bear. Can you see me?
Now we were starting our trip to the "must-be-seen" places.
This crazy horse is standing in front of the station.
This is a restarant (?) in front of the station. In the fog you can the the famous "Alex", the TV tower which is located at the Alexanderplatz.
The river Spree and an old guy guarding the bridge:
Now we are in the gouvernment part of Berlin. This is the "Bundeskanzleramt", the building in which the chancellor is working.
Another highlight of our trip: Seeing "Trabis"! These cars were driven in the former German Democratic Republic when there have been two German states. The look a bit funny when you compare then with today's cars and the are very noisy.
The German Reichstag, in the building the German gouvernment helds their meetings.
This is the street called "Straße des 17. Juni". At the end you can see the "Siegessäule".
The next famous place: the "Brandenburger Tor". When you go through it, you go from the eastern part of the city to the western part. Today it's no big deal, but is a historical place since many people walked through it when the borders between the two German states were opened 19 years ago.
The river Spree again. Somewhere here has been the "Palast der Republik", the place where the gouvernment of the former DDR met.
This grey stones are the memorial for all the killed Jews during the Third Reich. It's nothing special at first sight, just a big place with these stones, but when you walk through it, it becomes more and more impressive.
And, finally, the famous Berlin wall. There is a place were you can see some parts of it, today with historical notes.
The Berlin main station. It is very huge, it's like a big shopping center and the trains are driving right trough it. 
The ICE back home, it drove 227 kilometers per hour! Pretty fast, you couldn't see much when you looked out of the window.
Back home everybody was tired but Katrin bought some great doughnuts in Berlin. There were pretty sweet, but they were great to end this exciting weekend.
