WARNEMUNDE / BERLIN 

Morning in the port town of Warnemunde. This is the train we would take southeast to the nation's capital.
The corridor on the train. We were in one of those compartments on the left.
The toilet on the train.
The north German countryside.
A close-up of the town in the distance. It is a small town, but notice the large blocks of flats. We'll see many of these in our travels to former Soviet-bloc countries. It seems the communists liked to keep everyone in these government-owned buildings rather than in their own homes.
Here we are at the Lichtenberg Station in old East Berlin. I probably didn't need to tell you that. You can tell simply by noticing the old, bleak industrial look of the place. It has only been fifteen years since the reunification of Germany, so there are a lot of places in the east part of the city that still harkens back to the darker days of communist rule.
We are on Frankfurter Allee, a wide thoroughfare in the east part of the city lined with large Soviet-style buildings. A little farther up the road it's called Karl Marx Allee. Isn't that sweet? The tour guide said that a lot of communists still get elected in Berlin from the east side. Old habits die hard I suppose.


A panoramic view of the old Berlin Wall. They didn't take it all down. The Berliners left part of it up as a reminder of what once was, much like a scar from an old wound.
This remaining section was painted after the fall and is known as the East Side Gallery. Some parts are starting to fall apart a bit.
I thought this would make an interesting photo. It's through a hole in the wall to the little strip of no-man's land between the wall and the River Spree.
A street called Unter den Linden, or literally "under the linden trees". In the 17th century, a local ruler planted linden trees along this road. It now stands as one of the grand streets of the city.
Humboldt University.
This is not the actual guardhouse, but this is where Checkpoint Charlie was during the days of the Berlin Wall. The American and Soviet guards are Berlin college students who act as soldiers for the tourists.
I don't know if this is original or not. Signs like these were written in English, Russian, French and German. As you will remember from history class, Berlin and Germany as a whole was divided into four sectors, the America, British, French and Russian.
The massive Tempelhof Zentralflughafen airport. It is an enormous gray building built during World War II. It was later to become the focal point of the Berlin airlift when the West flew supplies into West Berlin in 1948 and 1949 after Stalin decided to cut off land supply routes into the city in an effort to choke it off.
Since this old airport is located in the city and there are two other airports in the Berlin area, Tempelhof is not used very frequently. In fact it is to be closed in October 2004. Because of its historical significance, I don't know what the city will do with it.
There is a large memorial to those pilots who lost their lives in the airlift. Because the airport is located surrounded by the buildings of the city, it was a difficult approach and landing.
The Brandenburg Gate. You might have seen this structure in old Nazi movies with wonderful brown-shirted Germans marching about with torches and swastika flags. How nice. After the construction of the Berlin Wall the Brandenburg Gate was in no-man's land. It was not far from here that Ronald Reagan demanded that Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
Proof that the West won the cold war. A Starbucks. I was actually looking for an excuse to get a photo of this cute blonde. I caught her looking away in a rather unattractive slouch. The other one in the very small tight shorts was cute too.
The large television tower in Berlin.
This is a major shopping street in Berlin. To the left is the Europa Centre. This bend in the street is where Tauentzeinstraße curves and becomes Kurfürstendamm near the...
...Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Built in the late nineteenth century by Wilhelm II in honor of his grandfather Wilhelm I, it was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943. The part that remains is the belfry. The bit on the right of the photo is part of a new church built next to the ruin. It is typical modern architecture and looks kind of off in juxtaposition to the old building.
I saw this babe in her unmentionables on ad posters all over town.
The Reichstag. The old part of the building was built in 1889, but was severely damaged in the war. The glass dome was built fairly recently.
A museum devoted to the allied occupation of Berlin.
A plane that was used in the airlift in front of an American army hall. This is also part of the AlliiertenMuseum.
The museum has one of the old guard towers from the Berlin Wall.
Charlottenburg Palace. It used to be a summer place for Prussian royalty. Now it's some sort of museum.
I think we left Berlin from the Zoologischer Garten station. I could be wrong. But where ever it is, this is it. It's a hell of a lot nicer than Lichtenberg Station.
There was some sort of fair going on in Warnemunde that night.
The magenta sun sets over the Baltic Sea.

TO TALLINN