Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Our mini-vacation, aka 'long weekend' - three days in Berlin, Germany.
Cyndi had a business conference in Amsterdam. Afterward, she took the train to Berlin while I (Gary) flew from Raleigh to London, then on to Berlin. We met our friend Rodney, an American ex-pat living in Paris (who also took the train).
We took two different walking tours, one on Friday and another on Saturday, and walk we did.
My 'narration' included several mistakes, so no one will hire me as Tour Guide. One big one is at 10:24 at a memorial site to Jews murdered in the Holocaust. I says "six thousand". it was more like six million (he knew that... it was cold).
Also, my narration is neither continuous nor complete. Again, 'not a tour guide'. What you'll hear from our actual guides is hit and miss. I wasn't trying to 'record the tour'. They make their living giving these tours (and they're very good at it). Ask Cyndi for contact info.
Got a question about what you see? Ask us (mark the time). Maybe we'll have an answer.
The Berlin Wall dominated my scant education about Berlin. it came and went during my lifetime. If you seek it out, it's a significant presence, but as you walk around the city, it is not.
Out second tour guide, Manfred, pointed out that much of the former East Berlin looks a little 'nicer' than West, not the drab, Communist inspired residue you might expect. Germany has poured billions of Euros into new construction in the East. We didn't get into the countryside or any other towns in our three days, so we're just talking Berlin, and within a few miles of the Wall. Some online research noted that employment, property values, and family wealth in the East still lag the west, 30+ years after the Reunification.
This is another 'edited in the camera' home movie. That means short shots with almost no post-production editing. I did catch one spot where I left the camera running and recorded a few minutes of shoes walking. After ascertaining that was NOT what I intended, I cut it out. But I didn't review the entire 'reel,' so it may have happened elsewhere.
Our mini-vacation, aka 'long weekend' - three days in Berlin, Germany.
Cyndi had a business conference in Amsterdam. Afterward, she took the train to Berlin while I (Gary) flew from Raleigh to London, then on to Berlin. We met our friend Rodney, an American ex-pat living in Paris (who also took the train).
We took two different walking tours, one on Friday and another on Saturday, and walk we did.
My 'narration' included several mistakes, so no one will hire me as Tour Guide. One big one is at 10:24 at a memorial site to Jews murdered in the Holocaust. I says "six thousand". it was more like six million (he knew that... it was cold).
Also, my narration is neither continuous nor complete. Again, 'not a tour guide'. What you'll hear from our actual guides is hit and miss. I wasn't trying to 'record the tour'. They make their living giving these tours (and they're very good at it). Ask Cyndi for contact info.
Got a question about what you see? Ask us (mark the time). Maybe we'll have an answer.
The Berlin Wall dominated my scant education about Berlin. it came and went during my lifetime. If you seek it out, it's a significant presence, but as you walk around the city, it is not.
Out second tour guide, Manfred, pointed out that much of the former East Berlin looks a little 'nicer' than West, not the drab, Communist inspired residue you might expect. Germany has poured billions of Euros into new construction in the East. We didn't get into the countryside or any other towns in our three days, so we're just talking Berlin, and within a few miles of the Wall. Some online research noted that employment, property values, and family wealth in the East still lag the west, 30+ years after the Reunification.
This is another 'edited in the camera' home movie. That means short shots with almost no post-production editing. I did catch one spot where I left the camera running and recorded a few minutes of shoes walking. After ascertaining that was NOT what I intended, I cut it out. But I didn't review the entire 'reel,' so it may have happened elsewhere.
