Today woke up after tasting some of the Nachtleben that Berlin has to offer...really did not go to too many places but they were all Nollendorfplatz bars. I got back either very late or very early, depending on how you want to look at it...I could only sleep a couple hours and woke with a Kopfschmerzen, reminding me once again that I am not das Junge anymore.
After a Milchkaffee and a little bit of Christopher Isherwood´s The Berlin Stories at the Barbar Bar on Krummestraße just south of Pestalozistraße, I headed for the Tiergarten beginning from the Tiergarten stop on the S-Bahn. From there I started walking across this massive greenspace. It was a beautiful, sunny day and with the previous cold, rainy ones, people were out in force. I got to the Siegessäule which is a column marking the approximate center of the Tiergaten...traffic converges there from all directions in a big circle. On the edge of the circle I stopped at an outdoor place that served bratwurst and so I took lunch there. Finishing with lunch I went through the underground access tunnel and came up onto the island upon which the column stands vertically 60 meters above the surrounding ground.
Circumscribing the column are a few steps and this is a good place to sort of just relax and watch the circling traffic of cars and busses, trucks, bicyclists and bike taxis, and pedestrians, all making arcs around the circle. Where I made my observation point, I took the following photo of myself:
From there I walked back into the forested area of the Tiergarten, following the twists and turns of the variety of paths and walks that criss-cross the place. A person could literally get lost here but not for long. I took the following picture:
I walked very slowly though the park, taking plenty of time to sit and write and just watch the people. I chatted with Jason on google chat over my blackberry while sitting on a bench overlooking the Rundgarden, a small area within the Tiergarten, where the ground was covered with an array of brightly colored pansies.
I finished up my walk coming out in the area of Potsdamer Platz where again I had a Feldsalat mit Rotwein before heading over to the St. Matthäus Kirche and listening to part of the service which had some lovely choral presentations I had previoulsy read about on a flyer I had picked up at the Kulturforum the other day. I didn´t stay long and headed back to Charlottenberg doing so on the busses.
...photo log Berlin 5.13.2007...
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