Tomorrow….wash day and some catch up on the web page if we can find one of the elusive internet café’s that will let us bring in the laptop.
6 September ’04, Monday. Today was our last day to use our City Tour Card, so we made the best of it. The bus and trains got to know us very well today. We even got on the wrong train 3 times….NOT ON PURPOSE, I must say !!! But even with what seemed like constant riding, we walked our legs off for the 3rd consecutive day. It is amazing, you would think that we would be tough as nails by now. Who knows, maybe we are and if we were to have started this without any physical conditioning we might really be in a world of “hurt”. Our day was to review some of the sites that we didn’t really have a chance to delve into before, and then there were a couple of sites we really had to see for the first time. Two standouts for the day were The Berliner Cathedral Dom, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche Memorial Church . The Cathedral Dom, with the wishes of Kaiser William II, was to serve as a rival to Rome and be both the “mother church of German Protestantism” and the Court and Memorial church of the Hohenzollern dynasty. This imposing church, built of granite and Silesian sandstone in High-renaissance style, is accessible through 9 of it’s 12 entrances. It really is a beautiful piece of architecture. The other, Kaiser-Wilhelm, was actually two…the old that was functionally destroyed in WWII (locally called the “Broken Tooth”) and the other, which is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The “B-T”, was built in the Neo-Romanesque style while the memorial church is more modern in style and is 2 separate buildings. The first is the chapel, and the other is the bell tower, which is located on the opposite side of the “Broken Tooth”. You don’t notice it from the outside of the memorial church and the tower, but once you step in, you are totally surrounded by dark blue opaque blocks, with the image of Christ in gold above the alter. Again, very stunning and unique. Well, pizza for dinner and back home for the evening.
Tomorrow….wash day and some catch up on the web page if we can find one of the elusive internet café’s that will let us bring in the laptop.
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