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auf Wiedersehen
‘The sculpture is to remind of the fact that both people and molecules exist in a world governed by probability and that the objective of all creative and scientific traditions is finding wholeness and unity within the world’ – Jonathan Borofsky
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The Berlin Wall
On 13 August 1961 the border here at Muhlenstrasse was built up to block access to West Berlin. But the Wall as it can be seen today was not built until 1977. Behind it was a high security border strip and the Spree, the entire width of which belonged to…
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Berlin
The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the GDR, or East Germany, as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of Communist power. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany. The Neo-Renaissance building was constructed…
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Baltic Sea Basket
North of Lubeck in Travemunde Strand. The Ostseekorb is Your Dream Beach Basket For around 50 euros this can be yours for the day Comes with a power bank for electronic devices
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Lubeck
Most significant town gate of the late Middle Ages in Germany and trademark of the city. Constructed between 1464 and 1478 by the counsil’s architect Hinrich Helmstede following the example of Flandric bridge gates. Former middle gate in a complex of four town gates. Reconstructed between 1863 and 1871 and…
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Dad in WW ll
Dad never wanted to talk about his war time and I saw that he suffered throughout his life from significant PTSD; that and recurring bouts of malaria from infection while serving in North Africa. Very rarely he would mention something, ‘I spent my 21st birthday in a fox hole’ and…
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Hamburg
Hamburg was founded at the mouth of the Alster River in the 9th century and used it as a port. The Alster has been dammed since 1190, originally to power a watermill. In 1235 a further dam was built for a second mill, which changed the shape of the river…
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Hamburg – St Nikolai Memorial
Operation Gomorrah was a campaign of air raids that began on 24 July 1943 and lasted for 8 days and 7 nights. It was at the time the heaviest assault in the history of aerial warfare and was later called the Hiroshima of Germany by British officials. Operation Gomorrah was…
Tea with Tanner ...somewhere 