Berlin, Germany - 24th February 2012
By: MA_17
Today a new tv arrived. We just saw 2 black eyes looking out of the envelope.
It was Pieksi. We gave him a warm welcome hug when he left the envelope.
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Posted Feb 24, 2012, 11:58 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 25th February 2012
By: MA_17
Today the postman gave us a big envelope. The envelope had a hole where an eye was watching us! Spooky!
The eye noticed us and whooop an arm came out of the hole. We decided to help that creepy creature!
It was Woozy. He takes part at the GTVT and will stay for about one month. I hope he'll never scare us again the way he did today!
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Posted Feb 25, 2012, 10:48 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 27th February 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mommy,
I'm still tired, because the last night was a little bit too long! We watched the Academy Awards on tv! What an amazing show!
In the afternoon we decided to walk a little bit through the city. We stopped at the East Side Gallery. It is an international memorial for freedom and it is a 1.3 km long section of the Berlin Wall. The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world.
Next to the East Side Gallery we saw the O2 World, a multi-use indoor arena. With a capacity of 17,000 people, it is home to the Eisbären Berlin ice hockey club and the ALBA Berlin basketball team and is used for other ice hockey, basketball and handball matches as well as concerts!
Mommy, did you watch the film "Run Lola Run"? Then you will know the bridge on the next picture!
It's a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree called Oberbaum Bridge (German: Oberbaumbrücke). It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.
And once again the River Spree! I've been to this river many times before: when the sun was shining, when it was covered by ice and now while it was raining! I think we'll become good friends, because I already know the river so well!
That's all for today!
Good night!
Crawfish
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Posted Feb 27, 2012, 9:12 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 4th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mum,
today was a really long day!
We started at 5 a.m. and took a picture with some Buddy Bears. They look like the Quadriga on the top of the Brandenburg Gate!
Later the day we went to the airport. First we thought we are going to fly to a nice place, but we just picked somebody up.
Look at the big plane!
And then we did a sightseeing tour by night! First we went to the Sony Center. It is a Sony-sponsored building complex located at the Potsdamer Platz. There you can find shops, restaurants, a conference centre, hotel rooms, luxurious rented suites and condominiums, offices, art and film museums, cinemas, an IMAX theater, a small version of Legoland, and a "Sony Style" store.
I've been here in February, do you remember?
This is the giraffe of Legoland. Huge!
We also stopped at the Brandenburg Gate.
I've also been here about 2 months ago.
We met a statue of an Ampelmännchen! Ampelmännchen is the symbolic person shown on traffic lights at pedestrian crossings in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR - East Germany). Prior to the German reunification in 1990, the two German states had different forms for the Ampelmännchen, with a generic human figure in West Germany, and a generally male figure wearing a hat in the east.
The Ampelmännchen is a beloved symbol in Eastern Germany, "enjoying the privileged status of being one of the few features of communist East Germany to have survived the end of the Iron Curtain with his popularity unscathed." After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Ampelmännchen acquired cult status and became a popular souvenir item in the tourism business.
It's after midnight, I think I have to go to bed!
Love,
Crawfish
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Posted Mar 7, 2012, 3:58 pm
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Wörlitz, Germany - 6th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hello Mom,
today I visited the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, again. I've been here at the end of last year. But this time I visited the whole park of Wörlitz!
This is the Wörlitz Palace.
Here you can see St Peter's Church.
This is the rock island with the volcano Vesuvius and Villa Hamilton on it.
On our way to the island we saw this amazing gate. Can you see us?
Behind us you can see the Pantheon. Not many visitors see it, because it is at the end of the park. Most people take the short way by ferry.
The river Elbe is about 6km away from here, but look, behind the dike is still some water from the flood left!
This lake is called "Tiny Walloch". On the other side you can see the White Bridge.
Once again the Palace. Can you see it?
Look at the temple of Venus. We were allowed to pose for a picture in front of her.
Under the "Cliff of Luise" are many underground tunnels. Spooky! We walked through all of them!
This is the Chain Bridge, from bottom and top. It was funny to run over it.
Under the Chain Bridge we found a nice place to rest. Behind us you can see the High Bridge.
This building is the flora temple and in front the flora garden. But there are no flowers at the moment. It is still too cold.
And once again the White Bridge. Isn't it beautiful?
Look, some flowers are already awake!!!
This is the Gothic house. It looks different from both sides!
We climbed on a tree to fulfill one of Pieksis Life Missions! Normally there are many peacocks sitting on the tree!
The house in the background is the palm house. In winter all palms are "sleeping" there, because the winter is too cold for them!
At the end of the park there was a tunnel, again. There was also a labyrinth made of stones and bushes. With some unknown statues in it.
Can you see us?
This is the map of the whole park. It is so big! My tiny feet hurts! But it was a wonderful day!
Love you,
Crawfish
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Posted Mar 8, 2012, 10:46 am
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Berlin, Germany - 7th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hey Mommy,
another day with wonderful weather. We had a walk through the city. First we went to the place where the "West Port Canal" runs into the river Spree.
This is my friend Spree.
After crossing a bridge we went to the garden of the Charlottenburg Palace. It is the largest palace in Berlin and the only royal residency in the city dating back to the time of the Hohenzollern family. The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during the 18th century. It includes much exotic internal decoration in baroque and rococo styles. A large formal garden surrounded by woodland was added behind the palace, including a belvedere, a mausoleum, a theatre and a pavilion. During the Second World War, the palace was badly damaged but has since been reconstructed. The palace with its gardens are a major tourist attraction.
First we had a look to the map.
This is the tea house "belvedere".
The gardens of Charlottenburg Palace.
The carp pond.
The Mausoleum was built as a tomb for Queen Luise between 1810 and 1812.
The woodland.
Charlottenburg Palace in the background and the Orangerie in the foreground.
We left the Charlottenburg Palace and went to the Großer Tiergarten which is simply known as Tiergarten.
It is an urban public park of Germany located in the middle of Berlin, completely in the homonymous locality. The park is of 210 hectares (520 acres); and among urban gardens of Germany, only the Englischer Garten of Munich (417 ha/1,030 acres) is larger!
We walked through the whole garden, from east to west!
This is the memorial of Goethe, a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath.
This is the memorial of the composers Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.
In the Tiergarten you can find many trees, ponds and small lakes.
Then I arrived at the "Golden Lizzy". I've been here long time ago.
Next to Lizzy I saw the Bismarck Monument. It's really big!
At the end of the walk I saw one of the watergates of the Landwehrcanal. But this time there was no ship.
I think I walked a little bit too much! I'm so tired!
Yours,
Crawfish
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Posted Mar 11, 2012, 7:25 pm
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Berlin > Dessau > Berlin, Germany - 11th March 2012
By: MA_17
Nothing to do, so we did a ride by car to Dessau and back.
The weather was really bad!
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Posted Mar 12, 2012, 1:39 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 14th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hey Mommy,
I'm in the middle of the city and there's so much nature around!
Also near the central station! Last time I've been here it was really cold!
There's Potsdam Square (somewhere behind me you can see Sony-Center), where I visited the Berlinale festival!
And once again river Spree with a nice bridge.
I've been to the House of the Cultures of the World and I found a funny sign. It is written in German and Turkish! In some areas in Berlin you have stores where everything is written in Turkish, can you believe this??? Btw the sign means: "Don't climb on the roof! Danger to life!"
Across from this building you can see the "Federal Chancellery". The inhabitants of Berlin call it "Waschmaschine" (washing machine).
Have a look, the Reichstag looks the same as it does the last time I've been here!
My last stop was the Mauerpark. The name translates to "Wall Park", referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. Today the park is one of the most popular places for young residents of Berlin, especially from the fashionable district of Prenzlauer Berg, and attracts basketball players, jugglers, musicians, and many other types of people. It is a crowded leisure ground and a site of sustainable improvised nightlife, especially in the summer, and has also become notorious for Walpurgis Night riots in recent years. There are two stadiums next to the park.
Love you
Crawfish
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Posted Mar 14, 2012, 7:27 pm
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Berlin, Germany - 15th March 2012
By: MA_17
Hi Mom,
today we walked a little bit through the districts Wilmersdorf and Schöneberg.
First we saw a playground. We all wanted to play, but we were too young. Hmm...
This is a park which crosses both districts. There are many people, kids, dogs etc. esp when the sun is shining and it is warm outside.
Can you see the golden deer in the left upper corner? It is part of the deer fountain.
That's all for today.
Love you
Crawfish
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Posted Mar 15, 2012, 7:18 pm
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