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It rained and Adda said to me, lets go to Spandau and shop. She had been there with me before. We went. It is far from Zhelendorf which is in South West Berlin but Spandau is in North West. They have such nice walking streets there with shops. It was a Friday and by the city hall there we saw some wedding couples. Here are my pictures of that rainy day.
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Now Adda had shopped enough in the walking street and wanted to go to the mall. So we went to the Arcaden there.
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Waiting for Adda. I saw those nice old bikes.
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Away we went from Spandau.
we had a meal in the restaurant under the railway station in Friedrichstrasse. I felt that the nice waitress has waited on me and a friend outside there some years ago, but she was so young. Out we went after the meal
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And everything was wet.
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Waiting for Adda while she was shopping
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The rain had stopped and on we went walking. There was an exhibition of pictures on a wall there but I had no time to look at them. Adda has no interest in such things and she went ahead. I always must take care of not loosing her. There  was Kennedy and Willy Brandt together,, A picture taken in Berlin when Kennedy was in Berlin. There were other historical pictures there telling us about the story of the wall.
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What is ahead?
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An old Trabbi like they call them a Trabant made in the east was standing there. A reminder of times gone.
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We were suddenly at Checkpoint Charlie. The boarder of West and East Berlin. Now they were reacting old times.
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The American soldier just left his post and was now talking to a friend. .
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A French soldier standing there.
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 Of course they have a stand with those here. When the wall went down hats like these were sold all over where tourists were expected.
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A Russian soldier.
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Now we took the train home.
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  • botoni said on Aug 22, 2008....
    Beautiful!
  • uniquely-ironic said on Aug 22, 2008....
    Love the pictures.  I'd like to see checkpoint charlie some day.  The historical impact it had was tremendous.
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Aug 22, 2008....


    The pictures brings back lots of memories, dear skald!

    My mother-in-law from Thuringia still drove a Trabant way after the wall fell (oldest daughter still rode with it as she was a toddler so if I remember it right she had it until 2000 at least);  I loved riding that creme noisy car (I felt like being transported back in time)! 

    She had to eventually exchanged it for a Volkswagen, and although it was hard letting go, she admitted that she should have exchanged it sooner because she realized how  much comfort she missed all those years :).

    I am enjoying the Berlin blogs... like you said, Ich habe einen Koffer in Berlin, ich bin eine Berlinerin <3333

    :D

    joanna


  • skald said on Aug 22, 2008....
    Botoni.  Thanks
    Uniquely.  Maybe you will see it one day.
    Joanna.  Ich auch, ich bin eine Berlnerin, so sagen meine Leute in Berlin.
     We We bought all brands of cars here, Trabants too and I remember the time they were here. I have seen one and one in later years. There used to be a society here , the society of  intelligent people. They were Trabant owners.

    Say hi to your mother in law in Türingen. Eka and her siblings were brought up there and I visited very nice people there.
  • RollingC said on Aug 23, 2008....
    Thank you for sharing this.  One of my dreams is to one day go to northern Europe.  Long time ago my father took the family on a tour but we never made it to Germany.
    Maybe one day I'll be able to make it there again.
    Rc
  • scipio said on Aug 23, 2008....
    Good pictures like " Berlin Melody ". Ever heard that song? Nice one.
  • skald said on Aug 23, 2008....
    Rolling.  I hope you will go to Scandinavia then too.
    Scipio.    I don't recall that one. Is it in English? Thanks Scipio.
  • scipio said on Aug 24, 2008....
    Yes, the tune is played by either Billy Vaughn or Mantovanni or some such old orchestra.
  • skald said on Aug 24, 2008....
    Scipio.  I'll see if I can find it. Thanks. 
  • queenparanoia said on Aug 24, 2008....
    what is the thing made up of? you know the one in the middle of the mall?!?!??! cuz that is so cool!!!
  • skald said on Aug 25, 2008....
    Queen. It is some recycled tin or iron, maybe from cans? 

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