Archive for the ‘Berlin’ Category
June Pic(k)s
Spotted these gems at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof on a busy Monday morning on my way out. Crisis or not, I could easily find better ways to spend €30 or €50.
Anyway, they made me chuckle, so they made the cut for my personal favorite pics shot in the merry month of June.
This along with a few others shot in Berlin, Ostrava and Pardubice, Czech Republic, along with Idrija and Svetina, Slovenia, are included here.
Previous pic(k)s of the month: [May 09] [Apr 09] [Mar 09] [Feb 09] [Jan 09] [2008]
Berlin 040, originally uploaded by pirano.
30 Second Cheap Hotel Advisor – Berlin
Sachsenhof
Motzstraße 7
Berlin
Stayed 4 nights, 15-19-Sep 2007
Roomy! Airy! I really enjoyed this place. Great location, just a short walk from the Nollendorfplatz U Bahn stop, nice neighborhood, and a sushi place across the street run by a friendly Vietnamese. Big minus is no internet access, but there’s a cheap internet cafe (open 8 am to midnight) just up the street. With advanced booking, as low as 50 EUR/night.
I shall (absolutely) return.
Sachsenhof-Berlin, originally uploaded by pirano.
Gadling pic of the day
This shot of the Holocaust Memorial, or Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, was selected as Gadling’s Photo of the Day today. Thanks! More about the memorial here.
Sobering, provocative, and in an ethereal sort of way, quite relaxing. A must-visit.
Berlin, 17-Sep-2007
Holocaust Memorial, originally uploaded by pirano.
Post card from Berlin
Been in Berlin the past several days, quickly becoming my favorite European city. This is Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, recently rennovated, but it still breathes history.
Berlin, 16-Sep-2007
Berlin Olympic Stadium, originally uploaded by pirano.
Berlin Hauptbahnhof.
Less than eight months after it opened, Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, Europe’s largest –and at a cost of €750 million (USD 900 million) certainly the continent’s most expensive– rail station, hit the headlines today after Storm Kyrill apparently knocked a two-ton steel girder from the building’s facade.
Only opened since May, officials wondered, wind storm notwithstanding, how something so new could begin falling apart so quickly. From Spiegel:
“In truth, something like that should never have happened,” said Berlin’s Interior Secretary Ehrhart Körting, in something of an understatement.
The station was closed and evacuated because of the storm at the time, so no injuries were reported.
While the merits of spending that kind of money on the station have been and continue to be argued, it’s not debateable that it’s an absolutely stunning metal and glass architectural gem spawning yet another example of impeccable German efficiency. When I passed through on an early September day –along with about 320,000 others on that Monday– I was struck by its immensity, and it’s locale: the Reichstag, Potsdamer Platz, the Federal Chancellery and the Holocaust Memorial are just a short stroll away, making it a destination in itself.
A few more pics:
Some construction pics here and more about the station here.
