The trains here are excellent. This is the high speed train I took from Belgium to Frankfurt. Even the sliding glass doors inside are smooth engineering marvels.
Berlin is a very cool city, its too bad I only had a couple days there. Lots of history, loads of museums (free 6-10 on Thursday) and lots of other cool stuff to do. I started off at the Reichstag, going up the glass dome for a great view of the city.
After waiting in long lines you can take an elevator up to the new glass dome for great views of the city and government officials working down below.
View of the city. They have one of these helium balloons in Hamburg too.
Huge Holocaust memorial in the center of the city.
I took a "free" walking tour of Berlin, which was excellent. Behind our guide here is the hotel where Michael Jackson dangled a baby out the window. Condi Rice was staying there in the special rocket proof room during the tour, and there were tons of police around.
The next day I met up with Avital, a friend from the Israel trip I went on a couple years ago. She's been doing an exchange program teaching English in Berlin for the past month. I had a great time going out to lunch with her friends who spoke German and were able to translate the menu. Then we explored some more of the city searching for this great ice cream place.
Me and Avital in front of a cool mural. There's lots of great graffiti and street art in Berlin, especially on whats left of the wall. Maybe Ill post a gallery of just street art.
Germany is very excited to be in the Eurocup fnals so there's lots of crazy stuff like this. In Berlin they shut down a major 6 lane road setup 4 giant screens, a ferris wheel and tons of food stands just to watch the game. Supposedly half a million people were there to watch it. I walked through about 2 hours before the game and it was already a madhouse.
I decided to relive my childhood and go to the Legoland discovery center. Sadly, my camera crapped out. I think I was the only person there between the age of 12 and 35, but I enjoyed it. The miniland Berlin section was my favorite. Unlike the other legoland minilands, this is built to minifig scale which I liked better, but probably none of you reading this are dorky enough to even know what im talking about.
Cool architecture at the Sony Center where legoland is located.
4 comments:
Sam,
You have been posting some extremely nerdy things, and minifig is the straw that broke the camel's back. So instead of calling you a nerd in every post, I will instead educate your readers.
Minifig scale is a term describing a lego creation that is scaled appropriately for use by the minifigures (little lego people). So the minifig city Sam is referring to was built big enough to populate it with lego people.
A life-sized model would be as big as the real city. A sculpture would be far too big for minifigures. A pocket model would be too small for minifigures, but would get the point across.
Kobra, did you just know that or did you google it?
You have to understand that the minilands at other Lego Land attractions are built to macrofig scale, so this is unique.
I'll try to cut back on the nerdy stuff lol.
Minifig or Fig(ment) Newtonion of your imagination, it's oooohhh, so cool you went to Legoland. &, cool that you remember--what, 14 yrs ago? and were willing and eager to do a nostalgia tour.
Glad that your 3/8th Danish self is enjoying touring, partying, chronicling, and eating and drinking. New beers, I get. How 'bout new food? xox
The holocaust memorial has so much gravitas...so fitting. I'd never seen this memorial and your pic was awesome. You have friends everywhere. A real global citizen!
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