Dresden, a city that was turned into a heaping pile of smoldering rubble in the final months of WW2 has rebuilt itself to one of the most architecturally impressive cities I’ve ever seen. Massive spires pierce the sky, and baroque and rococo art abound. Sooooo much done have to keep it short. Started off with … More Florence on the Elbe
Tchüss sadly meaning bye. My final day for visiting Berlin has come. A short walk to the Berlin Dungeon was quite exciting if a bit overwhelming. It is a heavily themed and decorated haunted house style walk-through with scenes and stories with cast interaction that loosely details Berlins history, from the plague, to the inquisition … More Tchüss Berlin!
Spandauer Zitadelle, a large fortress sits surrounded by a moat far in the western Berlin district of Spandau. It is nearly 900 years old and was originally a small island surrounded by a wall of wood sticks, but over the years it was rebuilt and added on to, and upgraded into a mighty fortress complete … More The Zitadelle
I finally got the pictures up on the post from a few days ago. The internet at my hostel went to garbage and I couldn’t get on for 3 days, so now I will be posing the next days rapidly. Another lengthy S-Bahn ride took me to Wannsee, a beautiful lake far on the outskirts … More Animal Houses
A ways north of Berlin lies the picturesque suburban town of Oranienberg, but the town contains a dark reminder from the countrys history. The House of Saxony, otherwise known as the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in. It is a large triangular camp and was the main hub of concentration camps being so close to Berlin. More … More The House of Saxony and a trip to Potsdam
Another fun day down. Started off the day with a pleasant taxi towards the Berliner Unterwelten. (Berlin Underworld), the location of an old 1920’s subway station converted into an air raid shelter for the German people during the war. Unfortunately photos were completely verboten. It was a fascinating winding underground network of tunnels and rooms … More A Walk In The Park
Greetings, the official first day went off to a great start. Woke up quite early and got ready and headed out the door for a lengthy one hour walk to the Treptower district in south eastern Berlin. Though on the way I got distracted and visited a long but very simple and enjoyable walk straight … More A Memorial Day Of Sorts
Finally made it after what seemed like the fastest trip to Europe ever. 10.5 hour flight from LAX to Stockholm Arlanda Airport for a 6 hour layover which went by in record time then a quickie hour and thirty minute flight south into Berlin’s Schönefeld Airport. Got off the plane grabbed my bag and made … More The Journey begins.
The time is here, everything packed and ready to head out the door! Leaving LAX to Stockholm, Sweden for a lengthy layover, and then off to the capital city of Berlin!
Posting this from my tablet the channel where I will be putting all my videos. Unfortunately I’ve realized the website blog cuts off part of the top banner on smaller monitors or screens, mainly the images. Oh well. Anyways my youtube channel can be found here at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrq0ztZ1kQPjvE7tSlcnEg The link has been fixed. Here is … More Youtube Channel up and running.
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