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December 27th 2007

Published: December 27th 2007

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Will & Briana Truong

Briana and Will

We moved to England in August, 2007. We had just graduated university and were looking for our first teaching jobs, so we decided to venture overseas to travel around Europe and start our careers at the same time! While living in England we travelled and saw more places than we ever imagined would be possible! In addition to our travelling adventures, we got engaged on Christmas Day, 2007 and were married on August 22, 2009! What a wonderful way to spend those two years of our lives. We never thought we would have the opportunity to work and travel abroad. If you look around our blog you'l... full info

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Statue of Poseidon outside City Hall

Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church

If you look at the top of the church, you can see that it is in a ruined state. The chuch was bombed during the war and has never been repaired.

Kaiser-Wilhelm Memorial Church

Just the two of us!

In the hotel.

A Christmas Market

These markets were filled with wooden huts selling lots of food and other merchandise (clothing, jewelry, candles, etc.). We enjoyed some wonderful roasted chestnuts while walking through the market on a cold night with Christmas lights and music playing in the background. How romantic!

Christmas Market

Will at a Christmas Market

In front of the Reichstag

(parliament building)

Will in the spotlight!

This is in front of the Reichstag.

Jewish Memorial

This memorial consists of 2,700 concrete blocks. It represents all of the Jews who died during the war. Each block has its own unique height and tilt. Each block is coated with a protective spray to allow graffiti to be cleaned off easily. In a twist of irony, the company who makes the protective spray is the sister-company of the company who built the gas chambers for the concentration camps.

Inside the Jewish Memorial

Humboldt University

This is where Albert Einstein once taught and Karl Marx once studied.

plaque representing Book Burning

This is a plaque that remembers the 20,000 books that were burned outside Humboldt University by youth Nazis. Books written by Jewish authors or books that disagreed with the Nazi ideology were burned.

Hitler's Bunker

Underneath this parking lot and apartment building is where Hitler’s bunker was located during the war. This is where Hitler hid during the last few months of the war before committing suicide.

Hotel Adlon

Welcome to the infamous hotel where Michael Jackson dangled his baby over the balcony.

Berlin's TV Tower

The Berlin Wall

This is the most recent part of the Berlin Wall to be erected. This part of the Wall was built in 1974-1975.

In front of the Berlin Wall

East Side Gallery

This is the longest stretch of the Berlin Wall that is still standing. The Berlin Wall was erected nearly overnight on August 13, 1961. It was built to separate West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of East Germany. Many people died/were killed trying to cross the Wall. Paintings started on this part of the Wall in December 1989 immediately after the fall of the wall.

Standing beside the East Side Gallery

29th December 2007

sheila allen
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The BEST blog on Berlin I've seen!
I grew up in Germany post WWII..as an American Army brat. Your's is the most descriptive blog on Berlin I've seen..and congrats! on the engagement.

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