Berlin in words and images

As we promised yesterday, we now bring you pictures of our trip to Berlin. Enjoy!

Steinunn and a plastic cow. A substantial amount of the pictures from Berlin show one of us standing next to plastic animals...


Here's Steinunn in front of the remains of the Gedächtniskirche that was bombed during the 2nd World War.


The bear is apparently the mascot of Berlin. These painted bears were all over the city. We couldn't resist the temptation to take silly pictures.


Mmm...Donuts. But seriously, I would really like it if Dunkin' Donuts came to Denmark. They also have good chocolate muffins, according to Steinunn, but they were too big to eat in one go.


Here we are in the glass dome on top of the Reichstag (the German Parliament). As the picture demonstrates, it was a long way down.


Another picture from the Reichstag. The glass dome was designed by famous architect Sir Arthur Norman Forster.


The Brandenburg Gate... not much to say about it, I guess. It's pretty, though.


The Holocaust Monument. This picture gives you a good idea of how this monument looks. It's a pretty vast area filled with concrete columns of different heights. At the edges of the site they are only ca. 40 centimtres high, but in the middle they can be up to more than 3 metres.


Steinunn, as seen through a window at the Jewish Museum.


On the last day of the trip, we went to the Berlin Zoo. It's very large and has more species than any other zoo in Europe (1500 species in total). We happened to reach the Polar Bear enclosure just as they were being fed. That gave us a good photo opportunity.


This Polar Bear resembles a football goalie quite a lot, but actually he's just eagerly awaiting the delicious dead mice and large chunks of meat that the zoo keeper was throwing.


Teeny, tiny penguins. The one on the left looks quite old (click picture to enlarge).


Ostrich up close and personal.


At the end of a long day, there's nothing more relaxing than hanging out at Dunkin' Donuts drinking coffee and eating Orange/Chocolate Donuts...mmm


This is Steinunn looking tired, in a café on the day of the journey home.


This is Currywurst, a Berlin speciality. It tastes almost as gross as it looks. I got this in a café in the building under the Fernsehturm. Steinunn didn't want to taste...


The tall and kitschy-looking Fernsehturm in East Berlin.


After a few days of American style junk food, we finally found a good place to eat lunch. It's a vegetarian café called Einhorn. We saw at least two of them in Berlin, so try to search for them if you ever go there. The food was very delicious, and the price was reasonable. You can mix'n'match from around 20 dishes, and then you pay a certain amount of Euros per 100 grammes.

We took a walk along the longest remaining chunk of the Berlin Wall. It's approximately 1,3 kilometers long, and we walked the entire length. It was very, very cold that day, so we barely made it...


Steinunn looking out the window from the ferry, as it was leaving Rostock harbour on the way back to Denmark. A beautiful conclusion to a good trip.