TimTravels - Berlin, Capital of Germany Part 1

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Welcome my dear Steemian friends to a new episode of TimTravels.

Being busy with exams and teaching it's not that easy to travel but luckily I have holidays now. I took the opportunity to flee from bad weather and had a short trip to Berlin! Yes, the capital city of Germany. One thing is for sure, I already miss Berlin and I will let you know why.
Enjoy Berlin through my lens

Before I went out to take picture I checked in at the hotel a friend recommended me. I wasn't disappointed as the staff was very friendly and the hotel itself looked very neat. If you have the chance to get to Berlin it's worth to have a stay here.




I just took one step out of the hotel and the first thing that came to my attention was a piece of the old Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was a heavily guarded wall which divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.


My first stop was the Berlin Victory Column. It's one of the main tourist attraction in Berlin and offers a great view over the city from its platform. On top of the monument you can see the statue of Victoria.


In order to get to the Victory Column you need to enter a tunnel. There is no pedestrian walkway on the street, similar to the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris.



Walking down the street you will get to the Brandenburg Gate, the gate which marks the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg. One of the best-known German landmarks. On the left side of the road there is another interesting monument you need to see.




And here we see the famous Brandenburg Gate





Let's get to the next famous landmark of Berlin, its Fernsehturm (television tower)! It's located at the Alexanderplatz and has a height of 368 meters and is the tallest building in Germany.





The streets are vivid and there is much to see. It doesn't matter where go you won't get bored. Remember the bubble shots I took in London? Well here are some from Berlin. I love these bubbles!



Here are some additional shots I took in Berlin




I hope you enjoyed todays episode of MyPictureSunday! Tomorrow will follow the announcement of the winners of the MyPictureDay contest and the second part of my Berlin journey! Have you been in Berlin? Tell us your experience!
Steem on!

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Berlin is awesome :) So many parks and monuments to explore there! My advice: if you go out try to go into one of the clubs at the Alexanderplatz which has a terrace at top. Then party till the morning and wait for the sunrise. Did this with a friend on our interrail trip - it was amazing! Maybe I can find the pictures somewhere on my old laptop.
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Greets :)

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Very nice. Good job

Thanks buddy!

Very nice journey through the city! Bubbles aren't always easy to photograph, but you captured and composed those those very nicely. And the architecture. :)

Honestly I just set my camera to burst mode and played with the focus. Was lucky to get a good shot :P Thanks for the feedback <3

Great post about a wonderful city! I love Berlin too. It is so rich and full of history. It's like jumping between the future and the past :)

Totally true!

Hey Tim,
good to see you visiting Berlin, I'am from Germany aswell and Berlin is still one of the most amazing cities here. Keep your eyes open, the most beautiful side of Germany is in the detail, not in the big buildings like the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Hope you will have a good time here in Germany, I am going on a journey to Spain, so hopefully ur posts gonna keep me up with my home country.

Wish you the best! :)

True

Thanks speedstudent!
Enjoy your trip to Spain, I will be in Greece this month. Can't wait. Wo aus Deutschland bist du?

Hallo timsaid !

gorgeous pics! Have a great day and enjoy your travel! Berlin is Great !

@kam.ila

It's nice to follow you guys, it's seems I'm travelling with you...by the way, very nice place in Berlin and greats shots as well, thanks @timsaid!

help me sir :( vote my post!!!!

I love Berlin! Main reason's the warm people there
very very friendly
plus the story written on every place
you always take amazing pics
and though I know you never bother to reply to any of my comments to your post I won't hold my thoughts back to thank you for bringing back beautiful memories I have on my last visit on that place
Did you go up the Fernsehturm ? There's nothing special to see but the experience and the food in the resto up there is superb and unforgettable. Though I'd rather spend the whole day going around the whole array of museums in the museum island I must admit that the most thrilling part of my last visit was going up Fernsehturm !

Wow, !!!!! very beautiful place. I really want to go there when I see your post. But for a vacation is very difficult for me.
Hopefully you are always healthy and can vacation anywhere
@Speedstudent @Timsaid

Thank you. Luckily I am healthy to travel the world. Best regards

There is nothing nicer than travelling, I really love the travelposts as it feels as if you are there with the people especially with such wonderful pictures. Thanks for taking us to Berlin really appreciate it.

Great to hear! Where was your last travel destination?

Awe-soooome! Perhaps you would be interested in my current travel challenge on the top of the promoted page .... :)

I had a look and indeed I will be traveling a lot the next weeks, sadly not on a location you gave us

Fortunately, as mentioned in the orginal post, anyone can take a photo at any famous location with the sign and be entered into the bonus portion of the challenge! I hope you do :):)

Great post that sets an examole how a post should be constructed. No too much text, not just images. Writing ia engading and images crative and well executed. I have learned from this about posting and about Berlin too. Which is good as i going there in September. Genuinely enjoyed the post it we effortless to read. By the way, what camera did you use, i love the colours. Might it be Sony?

Thanks for the feedback. It's a Nikon D750

Really great shots. Confused it to Sony, as image rendition is somewhat similar.

Awesome pictures, Thank you. I was in Germany before the wall came down and Bonn was the capitol then. So after a little research I found out that Berlin was the capitol of Germany until the end of WW2 and since Berlin is inside of East Germany they changed the capitol to Bonn....then when the Berlin wall came down and Germany reunified Berlin was renamed the capitol passed by a slim victory in votes. Nearly half of the government remains seated in Bonn which is now officially the Federal City or unofficially the Second Capitol. I thought that was an interesting side note. p.s. I enjoyed all of the many pictures you have included here, thanks again.

Youre photographys are special. Transferred Berlin very well.

Great to hear!

I love the way you display your travels. Berlin is my favorite European city. You made me want to visit it again!

My favorite town in Europe is Paris :)

My second favorite ;-)

Awesome! : )))) very cool photos! Especially i like dinosaurus! There are also base-jumpers near Alexanderplatz, they jump from hotel near clocks. Berlin is a city of modern and freedom for me. There are a lot of parks, green, river. But i've never been in Berlin's disco. I plan to visit some of them next time)
Have a good vacation!

The hotel is called Park Inn by Radision. I should jump next time

No doubt that the trip to Berlin Germany is very pleasant. I am motivated with your traveling style @teamsaid, I am a newcomer in steemit, hopefully I can follow your trail, because I am also a travel lover, visit my introduce sir. Take me to trending topic.

You are the best photographer I ever seen!!

I was in Berlin last summer, it was amazing. upvoted!

Berlin place is very beautiful , hope to visit there some day.

Hi @timsaid great post on your travels! I just created my introduce me post where I travel all around my hometown Chicago, IL! @joeparys you post is truly inspiring and I just wanted to say thank you for sharing!

Man I would love to see Chicago!

Seems you were mainly in the touristy areas, you have to go to the east side next time, to kreuzberg and neukolln to see what life is really like, berlin is such a great city

I agree with you but only spending a weekend is not enough time to capture all sides of a city

Nice stuff Tim! I am a Tim myself, and I'll be traveling a bit in Europe next year.

I'll follow you and check the rest off your posts, keep it up bro!

Thx for sharing

Never been in Germany, it seems cloudy but awesome.

Most time it's cloudy and in the north rainy

Berlin through the lens of @timsaid
you did great...I enjoyed the photos and the wonderful sights of berling!
this post is worthy of m upvote... thanks for this... expecting part 2

Yup exactly @Kenhudoy is right. U have captured very great pics. I love the pics of that bubbles and that metalic dragon woow amazing man superb :)

thanks @imdadn7567 for your observations of my honest comment... the erlin photos re truly amazing...
do you also intent doing some travel blogs

Berlin is indeed beautiful and you did an awesome job in this your post..keep it up. If you come to Nurembrg, then come for a cold beer.

Will let you know!

Great. Thanks for your comment and keep steeming to more success.

Hi @timsaid , in addition to my last comment, what is your opinion about bots ? feel free to see my latest post about the subject and send in your comment. I wish you more success and hope that we stay in touch.

thank you for all the very beautiful pictures and i love them all

second to last pic , what is it , a transformer or dinosaur?
and I am guessing you are guy ignoring the ladies

Who cares about the ladies when you have dragons?

I had dinner at the top of the tv tower once, it has such an awesome view. Great post.

I envy you!

Aha it was quite a nice!!! :) If you get the chance to check out my post then I would very much appreciate it!

Nice One!

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and check my post!
im new here
i hope you guys support me

@bunnyfunny just followed you.pls, follow back

Seems like a lot of fun ! I really like the pictures with those bubbles :D everything looks fantastic.

Oh yes I had fun :) Next stop is Greece

Wow..!!!!! ...It's a great place to visit..The hotel looks great ..Love to travel Germany .

I am saving money and planning on a trip to Europe, Germany will be one of the country I'll be stopping by and I am really fond to see this post as it showed me how beautiful Berlin is, and got me pretty excited for my trip. Really thank you for sharing, can't wait for more future posts from you!

Cheers and steem on!

Make a great post once you are here

You should try visiting Hamburg too.

I did, made some posts

Berlin is still one of the most amazing cities of germany so nice pick Wow.

Beautiful post. My father was born in Berlin and it is definitely on my Bucket list to visit. Love the Bubbles!!

wow.. Berlin is a great city. lot of history behind it.. seems like there are so many lovely places to visit, Looks like you had a wonderful time.. great photos.. I haven't been to Berlin but may be in my life time i will get a chance to visit this lovely city. thank you for sharing your experience with us.
Have a nice day!

I really hope you will get the chance to visit Berlin. It's a great place.

Have a nice day, too

Cool photos! Berlin is one place I've always wanted to go, perhaps even to live as people always talk about the lifestyle, but I've never made it there. One for the bucket list!

Not quite sure if I would live there but for vacations it's great

@timsaid Nice pictures! Been planning a short trip to Berlin soon. Do you have any recommendations on what to do?

Grab a bike and explore the city! It's huge

@lindacrypto
me too.. plan to visit... do you do travel blog...

The bubble-shots are truly amazing, although I enjoyed the other images as well. Berlin is awesome. Keep it up!

@shortcut
like your comment... the bubble shots awesome... hope to visit and find that scene!
do you blog on travel too?

They really are :-) I travel sometimes, lately I visited some art shows in Kassel and Weimar. You will easily find the posts, when you visit my blog.

ok...great!
doing that now

Next time I'll let you know! Thanks for the feedback

Excellent captures at the right time

Fun and Amazing@timsaid

Hey! Very good trip to the capital of Germany. I've never been in this country, the tembhe in Berlin. I like this country. Only I know about it only from stories on the Internet. As for an art lover, I liked the Berlin Wall most of all.
The girl does beautifully with these soap balls :)
A steep pteroduct of many iron)
Come to Russia! Here, too, what to see!

Are you pictured in the third photo below?

Hey Tim, good to see you got some time off again. Definitely a different experience this time in Germany for you - a bit more peaceful than the G20 trip.

Interesting to see that part of the Berlin wall, is it in it's original place, or in a random spot? The bubbles are cool, but I'm not seeing a crazy bicycle this time :-) although the wickedly awesome mechanical dragon makes up for it.

Excellent post. Thanks for Share!

Looks like you had an awesome time! Fantastic pictures - thanks for sharing :)

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