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The arrival in Berlin was great. The first day I met a friend, Pepe, and we went to the park. It was a Sunday picnic in the Tierganden park with his English, Australian, American, Bolivian friends… There was no Germans though.
Then we waked to the Reichstag to have a general view of the city. It impressed me the amount of cranes, sometimes I would count 5 or 8 cranes together. Yes, we can see that Berlin is a city on construction. I pointed to my friend all the cranes and construction sites, he wasn’t so impressed. I think when people live there they get so used to see construction that they get indifferent to the amount of it.
We walked on the Unter den Linben avenue to the Berliner Dom and the museums island. The city was quiet. It was Sunday and there wasn’t many people on the streets. A strange feeling, wide streets with large buildings: an emptiness.
Next day I walked around Mitte, a neighborhood in East Berlin. It was all reconstructed and it is crowded with cafes, bars and people walking on the streets. It is one of the places that I liked the most in town. In the afternoon, I did a walk tour around East Berlin. We passed by the museums, the famous wall, Checkpoint Charlie and end up at the Reichstag.
On my third day I decided to see the modern part of town. I started at the Hamburger Bahnhof, the contemporary art museum. I liked the works on exhibition and specially the place, the museum itself. After I went to the Potsdamer Platz, it used to be the city center before the world war. After, with the construction of the wall, it became a desert place for years, a no man land. Today the place is ultra modern, lots of shops, movie theater and business offices. There was a great open air photo exhibition by Yann Arthus-Bertran. His aerial photos from different places around the world made me travel…
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