Photos and the City

Category: Travel

  • Bonjour Paris!

    I didn´t plan my route; i just walked around and took it all in – it´s been way to long, Paris!

     

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    Do you see him? M. tour Eiffel seems to play hide and seek!

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  • Venetian Dreams

    I had to get up very early today and while I´m waiting for these guys checking the water-thingy in the building I´m staring into this grey pre-november day and am dreaming about Venice…. how beautiful it must be at this time of the year! I´d love to be there right now!

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  • Alexanderplatz

    While  I was younger I read these books about a girl growing up  in an orphanage in former East Germany, who was sent to West Germany to be reunited with her mother, who had been released to West Germany after being imprisioned. I really liked this story about suddenly being in a new enviroment, getting to know ones own mother and keeping contact with old friends. One of the books is called “Treffpunkt Weltzeituhr” and whenever I´m in Berlin I have to go to Alexanderplatz and to the Weltzeituhr (World Time Clock)  at least once.

    Erected in 1969 the Clock and the “Fountain of Friendship amongst Peoples” soon became a popular meeting place. I always have a kind of strange feeling standing at the clock, it shows all these different cities, which always reminds me of traveling and adventure, and was built in a state, where people were only allowed to travel to a handful of countries.

    And there is a second landmark at Alex: the TV Tower! Also know as my personal point of orientation. Whenever I´m strolling around Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg it always shows me the way….

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    There comes sunshine after rain!