These are drop boxes to put clothing and shoe donations in. They're everywhere - really, everywhere. About three times easier to find than postboxes.
Some old church. And some sort of tower. Next to each other. A "new and the old" sort of thing.
This is the angel on top of the tower in the middle of Tiergarten. Where Obama talked when he was here. It was very shiny. Notice the little birds on the wings.
Typical American arrogance (my bad translation: "Berlin had earned a good icecream. Perhaps the best icecream in the world").
This is a bit of the wall. That wall.
If you are looking for something super touristy that is straight out of the Soviet Union, going on the tour of the TV Tower (that thing in the background of the cathedral) is a must! Of course, I spent most of Berlin with a fellow sociologist-tourist-backpacker, so our constant commentary of the sociological variety was half the fun of everywhere we went...
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