Bluegrass Meets Berlin - bluegrassinberlin

Freiburg

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Milchkaffee

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Ganter Bier

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City wall

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Cobbelstones

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The "most beautiful spire on earth" is under construction.

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Gargoyles

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Canals.

Beer

At Beer Garden Golgatha
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View at Hertha match
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At Wannsee
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Alter Krug
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Emu attack

Looks nice enough...
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Mid attack
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Bingerstrasse

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Cross the street
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Italian restaurant
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Bingerstrasse
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That white house owns 2 Bentleys.
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My door
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A better look at the house

Enter my house
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So colorful
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My room
You can see that I am currently working on the blog entry

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The occasional visitor.
A frog.

Jewish Museum

The Holocaust Tower
One of three representations of Jewish struggle.

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A garden. Representation 2; very similar to the large memorial

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And 3
The third and final. The faces. They were made of iron.

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Unfortunately,
this is the only picture I have from the building. It is a really fascinating looking building. I'm sorry I don't have more of that or the exhibit itself.

Brandenburg Gate, et. al

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Brandenburg Gate + Ping pong
I believe they were holding some event promoting the Paralympic Games

There was long jumping
Also basketball and volleyball. I have no photographic evidence, though.

No ping-pong
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French Cathedral
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Man in front of Schiller
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Schiller
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Nikolaiviertel
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St. George slaying dragon
I have no idea why there is a statue of St. George slaying a dragon in the middle of Berlin, but...

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...it's a good excuse to put a biergarten on the Spree

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Martin Luther
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Boat Tour

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Reichstag
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Main train station
Hauptbahnhof, where I departed for Hannover/Wittenberg

Bundeskanzler's office
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Bridge
That nearly took my head off

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Berlin Cathedral
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Reichstag

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An artistic representation of all the elected members of the Reichstag. Yes, ALL of them. You'll see.

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See?

There was a black box that represented the period from 1933-45.

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Mini model
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When a vote is close, all members of the Reichstag must leave the floor and then re-enter under these doors. Here was the "no" door.

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The floor of the Reichstag. Blue (or purple?) isn't the best color.

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Who's that fine lookin' fellow giving a thumbs up?

In the copula
This is the very top of the Reichstag.

Kreuzberg

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Waterfall to the street
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The hill (and memorial) for which Kreuzberg was named.

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I took a picture of this head stone because I have a question about it. For the birthdays, there are two different dates. Can anyone help me there?

Felix Mendelssohn's grave
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Mendelssohn, take 2
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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Hertha Berlin v. Hannover 96

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Wittenberg

Luther's house/museum
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Castle Church

State Church
The next church pictures are not from the Castle Church. These are from the State Church, and Luther preached here for a time. When we went to visit the Castle Church, we were not allowed in until after 2pm. A private wedding was in process.

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This is the Castle Church
Now we're at the Castle Church

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This is where the knights sat.
I thought this was really awesome. Each knight had his own place to sit. You could see crests from men like Ulrich von Hutten and other big names.

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Luther's grave
This is Luther's grave and my classmates. From l-r: Matjaz, Melissa, Brian.

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Atop the Castle Church
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Wittenberg
I am embarrassed to say that this is one of the last pictures I took in Wittenberg. Yes, you are correct. I COMPLETELY FORGOT about the infamous door where Luther nailed the 95 Theses. How could I forget? Your guess is as good as mine.

Hannover 96 v. Arsenal

The pitch

Gooners from Poland

The first Gunners I saw
From left to right:

Abu Diaby, Tomas Rosicky, and Gael Clichy

Pat Rice
Arsenal's assistant manager signing autographs.

Here they come
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Woo!
It's a little dopey, I know...

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Arsenal, in white

Hannover free kick
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Arsenal free kick
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Jazz Club

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Enter: Mr. Detroit
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Look at him go
I really wish I could Photoshop the other tenor sax man out.

Sachsenhausen

To the memory of all the opponents of Hitler and his regime...

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A memorial to the Catholic priests.

A memorial to 11 Luxembourgers.

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Barrack 38
The ceiling of one of the barracks in which prisoners were kept. This particular one housed Jews, and in 1992 it was firebombed.

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One of many mass graves that were scattered throughout Sachsenhausen. Each one had a number on the side representing the barrack to which the victims belonged.

Visitors placed stones on top of the graves to pay their respects.

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Sachsenhausen was liberated by the Red Army. This memorial commemorates the Soviet prisoners at the camp. It was rebuilt three times. According to Stalin, the first two depicted the victims as too emaciated.