More walking around Berlin

After our school visit we went to see a little more of Berlin, focusing on this very nice new area called Potsdamer Platz. We saw some very neat buildings, and again we saw where the wall ran right through the city. In the photo below you can see the pavers that show where the wall used to run through Berlin.

Also, we visited the new Sony Center as well. This is a very modern set of buildings that are all connected and share a huge courtyard in the middle. They even moved a historical building over and then built this modern building hanging over the old building. They used part of the building to then be part of this new building. It was very impressive. You can see a view of the courtyard below:

For lunch we went to this really pretty park by one of the zoos. I had a traditional Bavarian German lunch of some type of sausage (I can’t remember the name, but it is veal) with mustard, potato salad, and part of a pretzel. I did have a Coke though, so it wasn’t an entirely German meal, but then again, Coke is pretty much universal now. By the way, you peel the sausage casing off of the sausage before you eat it.

We next went to a famous church that was heavily damaged during WWII. It was built in the late 1800s for the Prussian King. However it was damaged so much during the bombing in the 1940s that most of it was destroyed. However, they kept this part of it, and then built a modern church right beside it. You can see the modern church steeple to the left of the old church below in the picture.