The Best Guide
During my trip to Europe last year, Jana and I did a two-day mad dash around Berlin. We visited the well-known and not-so-well-known sights that Berlin has to offer.
The weather for the most part was cloudy with a bit of rain here and there, but that did not stop Jana from taking me around the city. Here are photos of just some of the things I saw in Berlin.
Above is the Weltzeituhr at Alexanderplatz and the Berliner Dom. The clock was really cool and I of course had to find Vancouver on that thing :). We did not visit the inside of the Berlin cathedral, but just the architecture from the outside was spectacular.
Here are some cool pillars at the Neues Museum, located on Museum Island. We got there by taking the S-Bahn to Hackescher Markt station and then walking from there.
Kreuzberg was kind of hipster-ish and kind of touristy at the same time, but it was still a fun experience nonetheless. I found this Putin graffiti on some random wall and just had to take a photo.
To end on a more serious note
We visited Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) not once, but twice. I included just one photo of the memorial in this post, but while editing my other photos of the same memorial, I thought of this simple, yet striking poem, written by a Jew living in a cellar in order to hide from the Nazis during the second World War. Irene, a lovely writer and singer sent me this article featured on The Telegraph. It’s a good and important read.
“I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
even when there’s no one there
But I believe in God
even when he is silent
I believe through any trial
there is always a way.
May there someday be sunshine
May there someday be happiness
May there someday be love
May there someday be peace.”
-Chewy
What a beautiful reflection and inspiring (and fun) photos. I love the poem. I did a bit of searching to find the source. The most reliable is perhaps the Telegraph, a UK newspaper, that mentions Prince Charles “reading out a three-line anonymous poem scratched on to a wall by a victim of the Holocaust.
‘I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining.
‘I believe in love, even though I don’t feel it.
‘I believe in God, even when he is silent.'”
This is the link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11372941/Survivors-remember-Auschwitz-Every-time-I-come-here-I-feel-fearful.html
Shorter, but still pithy!
Hi Irene, thank you for your comments! I’ll add this source to the post, it’s a good read. See you Sunday 🙂