Sunday, October 11, 2009

Germany 2009 - off to the island of Ruegen

The title of this blog is a bit misleading: we went to Ruegen but really we spent most of the day in Berlin and spent the rest of it in transit and arrived only after dark in Binz auf Ruegen. So most of the pictures are still Berlin...
Der Titel dieses Blogs is vielleicht nicht so ganz gut gewaehlt, da wir den ganzen Vormittag noch in Berlin verbracht haben und den Rest des Tages sind wir nach Binz gefahren. Wir sind erst im Dunkeln in Binz angekommen. Die meissten Bilder hier sind noch von Berlin:

where the border from East and West Berlin used to be




in a coffee store getting some breakfast / in einem Kaffee fruehstuecken


that is where the Berlin wall used to run along - now the whole area is redeveloped and brand spanking new

some pieces of wall

Amelie in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall



the new Holocaust Museum in Berlin - it is just blocks and blocks of concrete in the middle of Berlin / das Berliner Holocaust Museum


walking 'inside' the Holocaust monument



the American Embassy

the Berlin Reichstag

the Berlin TV tower

the Brandenburg Gate

in front of a 'Steiff' Bear


a huge Lego giraffe

Lego Einstein


KFC is EVERYWHERE apparently

on our way to Binz


there are windmills everywhere in Germany / Windmuehlen sind ueberall

this is about 110 miles / hour - Shawn had a good time!

Yes - this is our car!!! We ran out of gas on the stretch from Berlin to Stralsund. There is on a stretch of 300 km no gas station. We did not have to pay for a ticket because technically it is illegal to run out of gas on the Autobahn and the ticket would have been 80 Euros. But the police man was nice and had mercy on us / Ja, das ist unser Auto!!! Uns ist doch tatsaechlich das Benzin ausgegangen. Von Berlin nach Stralsund gibt es auf ueber 300 km keine Tankstelle :-( Der Polizist der sofort angefahren kam, hat uns netterweise kein Ticket gegeben.

the bridge from the mainland to the island of Ruegen / Die Bruecke vom Land zur Insel

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

on the beach by moonlight

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