Tuesday 27 September 2016

Berlin: more culture

It's not all about family and ice cream. Mum also takes us to a couple of culture trips.

The columns of the Holocaust Memorial make for good hide and seek.
Hmm, maybe not.
On a Spree cruise along the city buildings.
With Berlin Dom in the background.
The people sit along the river bank and call it "beach". 
The Berlin Dome cupola. 
In autumn, they celebrate Thanksgiving in the Berlin Dome.
Kaiser's emblem, the eagle.
In the crypt they store old caskets of kings, queens and noble people.
The Pergamon museum of ancient history. 
A famous old mosaic.
The entrance way of old Babylon.
This one os for Lev: Evolution of modern chess: only for the last 500 years the powerful queen was established, before they had other pieces with different moves on the chess board. 
An ivory pice.
Coins and stamps.
The largest coin ever: A 1 million Canadian Dollar coin.

2 comments:

  1. Can you bring that coin home with you? I'd love to have been there with you. I think you saw lots of amazing places. How was old Babylon?

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    1. I can't bring the 1 million dollars home with me. It weighs 100 kg, made of pure gold. It is 53 cm diameter with 3 cm thickness. The airline would charge for excess luggage! :-)

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