Germany: Berlin, Day 1
EasyJet had some cheap tickets from Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport to Berlin Schönefeld Airport and on Friday, Nada and me were heading North.
On our first day we went on a tour called Berliner Unterwelten - Cold War nuclear bunkers.
As the official webpage, where you can read more, says (https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/):
This tour follows the traces of the Cold War in the underground. In West Berlin, civil defence shelters were reactivated or newly built in preparation for a possible nuclear war. Particularly after the building of the Berlin Wall, the West German government and the West Berlin senate invested millions in these projects. Some of these were built as “multi-purpose structures” and are currently used as underground stations, parking garages and storage facilities. By explaining the practical preparations made to help people survive, this tour attempts to make the realities and horrors of such conflict easy to comprehend.
After a short walk around Alex, our next stop was the DDR museum, where we discovered the everyday life in DDR, but since we come from the former Yugoslavia, many things were pretty much the same in our country.
Before our first tour we had a Currywurst
The monstrous flak towers were built in 1940 to 1942 in three places in Berlin to defend the city center against Allied air raids with heavy guns. We went to the top of Humbolthain flak tower.
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| View to Gesundbrunnen from Humboldthain |
Public transport is quick and efficient.
Our first underground tour in Berlin, Cold War nuclear bunkers. It was really a great tour.
Many roads lead to Alexanderplatz, named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I. On October 25, 1805, the Russian Tsar Alexander I was welcomed to the city on the parade grounds in front of the old King's Gate. To mark this occasion, on the 2nd November, King Frederick William III ordered the square to be renamed Alexanderplatz.
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| St. Mary's Church, Marienkirche, was originally a Roman Catholic church, but has been a Lutheran Protestant church since the Protestant Reformation and a united Protestant church since the Prussian Union of churches in 1817. |
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| Berlin Cathedral or Berliner Dom was finished in 1905 and is a major work of Historicist architecture of the "Kaiserzeit". |
Driving a Trabant wasn't much different than driving a Zastava 101, that I owned a long long time ago.
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| Simson was a German company which produced firearms, automobiles, bicycles and motorcycles, and mopeds. On the photo we have Nada and moped model KR 51/1 with 50 ccm and 3.6 HP. |
Themes in the museum: Everyday life & living in the GDR, The Wall & The Stasi and Discover everything about living in the GDR
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| The statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in Marx-Engels Forum |
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| Nada and Tuši - exploring Berlin |
After two tours we deserved a beer and the we visited Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas' Church), which is the oldest church in the city. The church was built between 1220 and 1230.
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| Altes Stadthaus ("Old City Hall"), was built between 1902 and 1911. |
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| SuperNada |
Time to go home. We stayed in Westend.
- Nordkreuz vs. Swinemünder Brücke, GC7YHY7
- Wie spät ist es? (Weltzeituhr) [D, EN, FR], Virtual, GC7B92Q
- Marx, Monarch und Merkel, GC7RAZ2
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