I'm back!

Nemesis_Zero

<div class="IPBDescription">... why is everyone running?</div>Hi everyone,

I'm back from my 'week' in Berlin. For the whole time, I didn't have access to a PC, and it <i>didn't bother me</i> - that's how good it was.

Anyway, it's good to be back, I'm happy to see NS getting even nearer to release, and expect more posts from me in the next time, my holidays started 53 minutes ago <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

CU all,

Nem

Sgt_X

(mass hystaria in the background) Welcome back, umm as u might notice things have gone slightly to hell, but it's not too bad. <jk>

Sono

Yeah welcome back Nem,
NS will come soon <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

So you already have holidays... fine for you..

*oh damn him... may the scouge get after him and toss him to the detphs of eternal pain*

Tzarcon

Maybe you'd like to tell us about some of the sights in Berlin!

Welcome back too!

Nemesis_Zero

OK, you asked for it:

- <a href="http://www.jmberlin.de/" target="_blank">The Jewish Museum</a>: Incredible. Everything, including the architecture of the building, is flat out brilliant.
The bilingual exhebitions (German & English) lead through the history of the European jews from their first settlements in the late antique until today. Extremely interesting, extremely well done, extremely time consuming.
I spent three hours and had barely scratched the surface.


- The Pergamon Museum: Everyone interested in antique history should visit this. The museum includes the front of a greec temple (rawly 12 meters high and 40 meters broad), the entrance to a roman city (16 meters high), and a repilca of the famous Babylonian processional way, plus a big number of antique buildingparts, statues, and mosaices.

My jaw hung open.


- The two National Galeries: Thousands of world famous pictures, sculptures and photographs, including a big amount of impressionists.

Went into the old galery at three pm, wanted to stay for an hour, was thrown out when it closed.


- Checkpoint Charly: Especially interesting for American visitors; there's a very good museum about the wall, the SED regimes efforts of keeping the GDRs inhabitants in the GDR, and about the crazy ways those found to get out. Bilingual.


- The former STASI prision: The STASIs prision for politically differently thinking is shocking both because of the raw brutality and the cold inhumanity the regime used to literally drive the opposition insane.
Groups are led by former prisioners who're now trying to keep the people aware of this part of history.

I recommend this absolutely, but it could be difficult for people who can't speak German.


- The Reichstag: Germanys house of parliament. Visiting it is somewhat of a mandatory, which is why there are always much too long lines, but it's worth the wait.


- The Bertolt Brecht house: Should you be interested in German literature, this is an absolute must.
The home of the famous writer has been converted into a small museum - very impressing, but the guide is a small, nice woman who's most certainly never left Berlin and speaks roughly 500 words a minute. If you can't speak German - forget it.


- The Brandenburger Tor: Not adviseable. The well known symbol of the city is currently recondittioned -> you're seeing literally nothing.

That's all I can think of right now, I apologize to every Berliner who might visit the forum for forgetting / ignoring 90% of the good stuff.
The five days were much too short.



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