Monday, May 25, 2009

19 May 2009

A Guide to celebrating your birthday in Berlin:

1. Go on a four hour bike tour with Fat Tire Bike Rentrals.


The bike I choose for the ride just so happened to be the, "Jessica" bike. It was fate.

Bakery, our tour guide, explained in detail about Cold War History. (The TV tower is everywhere you look in Berlin).


2. Go see the amazing remains of the original Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery.






A man trying to work on the East Side Gallery.







3. While riding on a bike into traffic take a picture of awesome graffiti.




4. Try and take pictures of Kopi, a punk swatter community, where the sign says, "This is where the capitalistic sector ends." As I tried to walk further a women in dreadlocks said, "It's not nice to take pictures of peoples homes." Professor Freeman said that last year students where chased out by beer bottles being hurled at them. So I wasn't able to say too long as Bakery warned that we were not welcome any further.



5. Pass by a protest and take pictures of it, while having no clue what they are yelling and shoting about.



6. Go to Treptower park a Soviet War memorial where it recognizes the 20,000 Soviet soliders who died in the Battle of Berlin.










The Molecule man structure.

8. Go to see the play Qi where you will entertained by ice-skating magicians, renditions of, "Like a Virgin," "Natural Woman," men in barely there sparkly speedos juggle, random acts of men kissing, and see amazing trapeze performances. Only in Germany!

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