Luckily we found some familiar beer at Publix.
And learned how to make crepes from some web how to videos. Yum!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Home Sweet Home
So after a very long day of flying, I finally made it home at midnight on Thursday. After giving out all my souveniers I headed to bed. I spent most of Friday sleeping on the couch, only waking up to eat food. Oh how I love American food. But... there are too things I was going to miss, so I went to Publix to see what I could find.
Luckily we found some familiar beer at Publix.
And learned how to make crepes from some web how to videos. Yum!
Luckily we found some familiar beer at Publix.
And learned how to make crepes from some web how to videos. Yum!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Adventure in Potsdam
So on Sunday I spend the day with Lauren and Kelly biking through Potsdam, a city outside of Berlin, with Blakley our Fat Tire Bike Tour guide. It was such an unexpected experience, I had no idea what Potsdam would be like, and it was beautiful.
Photo credit goes to Blakley, this is his idea of a touristy photo.
This temple was built to represent Asian architecture.
We took a few minutes to photograph this field of yellow flowers.
The size of the courtyard and palace was indescribable!
The stairs leading up to the Sanssouci Palace. I had to run up those so I could see the top and make it back to the group in time! What a work out!
Me infront of the Sanssouci Palace.
We got to bike along beautiful tree lined streets, and along side the river. Potsdam was a great place for a bike tour.
Potsdam has a lot of buildings inspired by different areas in Europe, this street was built to look like the Netherlands.
This garden is part of a garden that was inspired by the Epyptians Its hard to tell from these two photos but there was a sphinx statue inside.
A beautiful mistake. I love it when this happens!
The Front of the Cecilienhof Palace.
Though Potsdam wasn't damaged too bad during WWII a lot of the buildings are still undergoing reconstruction.
Photo credit goes to Blakley, this is his idea of a touristy photo.
This temple was built to represent Asian architecture.
We took a few minutes to photograph this field of yellow flowers.
The size of the courtyard and palace was indescribable!
The stairs leading up to the Sanssouci Palace. I had to run up those so I could see the top and make it back to the group in time! What a work out!
Me infront of the Sanssouci Palace.
We got to bike along beautiful tree lined streets, and along side the river. Potsdam was a great place for a bike tour.
Potsdam has a lot of buildings inspired by different areas in Europe, this street was built to look like the Netherlands.
This garden is part of a garden that was inspired by the Epyptians Its hard to tell from these two photos but there was a sphinx statue inside.
A beautiful mistake. I love it when this happens!
The Front of the Cecilienhof Palace.
Though Potsdam wasn't damaged too bad during WWII a lot of the buildings are still undergoing reconstruction.
Friday, May 22, 2009
stuff I like about Berlin, cont.
12. Crepes, specifically Nutella and Banana
13. Grapefruit beer, and leaving bottles anywhere you'd like, bc someone will recycle them.
14. Ampelmann, and mini coopers
15. Trying new food, and liking it
16. shopping! duh!
The last couple days we spent visiting different districts and shopping around. We went to Fassbender and Rausch (a huge chocolate shop & restaurant), the Onitsuka Tiger Store, Big Brobot, and other boutiques. It has rained a little bit off and on, but we haven't let that stop us yet! Tomorrow we are off to the flea market and at 6 I will be meeting with Blakely to get audio for my project.
13. Grapefruit beer, and leaving bottles anywhere you'd like, bc someone will recycle them.
14. Ampelmann, and mini coopers
15. Trying new food, and liking it
16. shopping! duh!
The last couple days we spent visiting different districts and shopping around. We went to Fassbender and Rausch (a huge chocolate shop & restaurant), the Onitsuka Tiger Store, Big Brobot, and other boutiques. It has rained a little bit off and on, but we haven't let that stop us yet! Tomorrow we are off to the flea market and at 6 I will be meeting with Blakely to get audio for my project.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Mini adventure
For our first free day Ali and I decided to go on a mini adventure through some shops and to the Bradenburg Gate. Here are some images from the day.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
no more wars, no more walls
Today was the bike tour with Fat Tire Bike Tours. The gang left the hotel around 10:30 and headed for Alexanderplatz. The tour company is located right under the tv tower. After everyone picked out their bike and got aquatinted with it we headed out with the guidance of Blakely aka Brocolli, Bakery, Bently ect... We headed through Karl Marx Allee to the Eastside Gallery. There we spent a few minutes checking out the largest section of the wall left intact. Since it is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall the invited a lot of the artists to come back to the wall and repaint their murals. We saw a few artists out, and I got a couple photos. Then we headed to the Treptower Park Memorial built in honor of the Russian soldiers. The sight was simply breath taking. The park was lined with trees that guided you to several large statues. After that we headed for lunch at a biergarten near the river, and then headed back to the hotel to do our time crunch regarding tonights play.
Our tour guide, who answers to many names.
I was excited to find an Electra cruiser. Mine was named Spiderman.
Each bike was equipped with a bell and a squeekee toy. We made a fierce bike gang.
Handle bar view.
This is one of my favorite murals that we saw.
An artist working on restoring a mural.
The Russian memorial park.
That's it for now, more later.
Our tour guide, who answers to many names.
I was excited to find an Electra cruiser. Mine was named Spiderman.
Each bike was equipped with a bell and a squeekee toy. We made a fierce bike gang.
Handle bar view.
This is one of my favorite murals that we saw.
An artist working on restoring a mural.
The Russian memorial park.
That's it for now, more later.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
A list of things I like in Berlin so far...
In no particular order...
1. The graffiti
2. Bier Gartens
3. Bier
4. The way they decorate their donuts
5. That 90% of drivers back in
6. The grill walkers
7. All the dogs
8. That dunkin donuts out number starbucks
9. Das Auto
10. The fierce fashion
11. The amount of biking people do
More to come...
1. The graffiti
2. Bier Gartens
3. Bier
4. The way they decorate their donuts
5. That 90% of drivers back in
6. The grill walkers
7. All the dogs
8. That dunkin donuts out number starbucks
9. Das Auto
10. The fierce fashion
11. The amount of biking people do
More to come...
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