Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, October is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall and its been fascinating to see the wall locations and memorabilia. I can assure you the area is prosperous and clean and vibrant now. It is a marvellous city. See my first posted shot taken at Checkpoint Charlie. The only pollution I've seen was mayonnaise put on my pommes frites (fries) and rostbratwurst when walking around today. I lost my tour group and continued my own impromptu walking tour. For museums, sculptures, memorials and history, I guess you could call it a target rich environment. Yesterday at the Brandenburg Tor I got to snap away at lots of happy tourists and bands and animated bears, Imperial Prussian infantry as well as the main attractions. Pictures shall follow. 2009/6/6 Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > At 10:00 AM 6/5/2009, you wrote: > >> Today I stood at that exact location. No National Socialist playsets for >> sale I can assure you. However there is an extensive trade in concrete >> fragments of dubious provenance allegedly from the Berlin Wall. I estimate >> that the wall must have been as long as that one in China to have produced >> so many fragments for sale. I think they must keep putting up new sections >> of wall somewhere and covering them with graffiti or bulletholes to show >> to >> the tourists. :-) >> > > I was there the day the Brandenburg Gate was opened. We went all over town > looking for hammer and/or chisels but all of the hardware stores had sold > out. We finally bought some on the street and my kids chiseled off huge > chunks of the wall that we still have around here somewhere. I have the > photos around here somewhere, too ;-) Air pollution was so bad at that > time > that you couldn't breathe or see. Has that improved? > > Tina > > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends' http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman