Visiting Berlin, Germany/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Berlin, Germany/Carlos Pueblo

I left Brussels, Belgium early in the morning for Berlin, Germany via

Cologne, Germany to change train, passing by Hanover to Berlin

Gesundbrunnen station, through the great plain of Germany. Some

times, I feel that I should stop at any of the station to visit the pretty

city. I stayed at a small hostel near the rail station and I had had cash

issue since Brussels due to lost some cash and an invalid debt card;

however, I still managed to have two good day’s visit of this great city.

On the second day, I started at a small piece of Berlin Wall, and a

charming German home garden near the Wall on the old East Berlin

side, and walked to a TV Tower at Alexanderplatz. The following day, I

went to Berlin Mitte, including Brandenburg Gate, Tiergarten to taste

the glory of the old Prussia and the Germany Empire.

A young lady helped me to decide where to visit Berlin on my first day

at a street corner by point to a nearby direction where the old Soviet

and French occupation border while I was at a street divided the West

from the East. I ran into a group of bikers with a professional guide to

explain the Wall. He was very well prepared to introduce the Wall issue.

Current German courts are still manage to settle the loss of private property

during those authoritarian regime of Nazi and East Germany. I thought of

Taiwan under the Chinese Nationalist rule. Then, I found this pretty home

Garden under the Wall on the East side similar to the river bankside of

Frankfurt Offenbeck yet a real home subdivision not just a flood control

zone building. I saw varies garden design with apples on the trees, roses

, dahlias, chrysanthemums, and some others. I took an American-Filipiano

lady Carmen of Maryland to visit the Wall and the home garden again on

my way back from Alexanderplatz.

Carmen gave me two subway tickets and I used one without validation when

I visited Mitte on the next day. A young Chinese lady chatted with me on a

platform and helped me to make sure the right train. She found out my error

and I appreciated it and gave her the second ticket. Exiting from the subway

station, the famous Brandenburg Gate is in front of you. It was a beautiful day

with many visitors. I saw the U.S. Embassy and wandered if I should go in to

get a $300 loan to solve my cash issue and I didn’t because I wanted to discipline

myself for my Buddhist monk discipline. I walked to many places on Unter den

Linden boulevard, such as Potsdamer Platz and the Victory Column on the

Tiergarten that I liked to have some thought of them.