I just returned from a 2 week European vacation. Here is part 1 of the trip from our study trip to Berlin courtesy of the German government.
Brandenburg gates
Greeting package of gummy bears in my hotel room.
We went and met with someone from the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development who showed us the city planning of new buildings and areas of Berlin in this room with a giant model of the city.
Mobile hotdog/sausage selling stand.
We looked at a lot of buildings: Olympic stadium from the Berlin Olympics by Albert Speer.
The Pergamon museuem: German antiquity hunters took the whole front of the Pergamon back to Germany - I was really impressed by how thorough they were in collecting ancient relics. They took the whole front.
We went to Hamburg for the day, checked out the new waterfront area of town Hafen City. Pretty neat area - New Herzong & de Meuron Concert Hall under construction.
We had a lot of good weiss beer - 0.5 L pints are pretty standard.
Flew to Sweden for a week afterwards to hang out with Tom Chung in Stockholm. Thanks to Ayesha for some of the photos that I borrowed to supplement mine.
