CHAPPIDI ABHIRATH REDDY,g
C/O COL GKS REDDY,
Secunderabad - 500 087.
Visited Berlin from 25 Aug to 28 Aug 2018 along with my Younger Daughter and family. Took off from Stansted Airport, London at 0800h on 25 Aug and landed in Berlin at about 1000h. And returned to Stansted on 28 Aug (AN).
Germany
Germany (German: Deutschland German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 
listen (help·info)), is a country in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres (137,988 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 83 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg.
listen (help·info)), is a country in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,386 square kilometres (137,988 sq mi), and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With nearly 83 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany's capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, with its main centres of Dortmund and Essen. The country's other major cities are Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hannover, and Nuremberg.
Berlin
Berlin (/bɜːrˈlɪn/; German pronunciation: [bɛɐ̯ˈliːn]) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3,711,930 (2017) inhabitants make it the second most populous city proper of the European Union after London. The city is one of Germany's 16 federal states, and it is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, the capital of which, Potsdam, is contiguous with Berlin. The two cities are at the center of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which is, with 6,004,857 (2015) inhabitants, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions.
Berlin straddles the banks of the River Spree, which flows into the River Havel (a tributary of the River Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs, formed by the Spree, Havel, and Dahme rivers, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. About one-third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers, canals and lakes. The city lies in the Central German dialect area, the Berlin dialect being a variant of the Lusatian-New Marchian dialects.
The East Side Gallery, Berlin
The East Side Gallery is an open-air gallery in Berlin. It consists of a series of murals painted directly on a 1316 m long remnant of the Berlin Wall, located near the centre of Berlin, on Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The gallery has official status as a Denkmal, or heritage-protected landmark. According to the Künstlerinitiative East Side Gallery e.V., an association of the artists involved in the project, "The East Side Gallery is understood as a monument to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful negotiation of borders and conventions between societies and people", and has more than three million visitors per year
The Gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world, painted in 1990 on the east side of the Berlin Wall. The actual border at this point had been the river Spree. The gallery is located on the so-called "hinterland mauer", which closed the border to West Berlin.
It is possibly the largest and longest-lasting open air gallery in the world. Paintings from Jürgen Grosse alias INDIANO, Dimitri Vrubel, Siegfrid Santoni, Bodo Sperling, Kasra Alavi, Kani Alavi, Jim Avignon, Thierry Noir, Ingeborg Blumenthal, Ignasi Blanch i Gisbert, Kim Prisu,
Hervé Morlay VR and others have followed.
The paintings at the East Side Gallery document a time of change and express the euphoria and great hopes for a better, more free future for all people of the world.
The East Side Gallery was founded following the successful merger of the two German artists' associations VBK and BBK. The founding members were the speche of the Federal Association of Artists BBK Bodo Sperling, Barbara Greul Aschanta, Jörg Kubitzki and David Monti.
The East side Gallery, Berlin
Another view of the East side Gallery, Berlin
The Gate in the East wall through which the East German Communist Soldiers
used to enter the Gap between East and West Walls
The Large Number of Locks put on the Gate Denotes Permanent
Closure of the Gate to the Communist Soldiers
The East and West Walls
The Entire Length of Berlin Wall consisted of Two Walls, The Inner Wall (East Side Wall) and the Outer Wall (West Side Wall. The Gao between the Two walls Contained Watch Towers and the Gaps between the Watch towers was patrolled by the Soldiers. The East Side wall had entry gates at various points for the Entry and Exit of the Troops for Manning Watch Towers and Patrolling. Though large Portions of Inner wall (East Side wall) have been retained at a number of places, only one portion of about 100 Metres length of Outer Wall (West side wall) was sited near the East side Gallery, during our entire Tour of Berlin. Similarly, only 03 Watch towers have been retained in the entire wall.
Only about 100 Metres Length of the West Wall was sighted near the
East side Gallery during our entire tour of Berlin
The East wall with the Entry Gate on the Right and
the Portion of West wall on the Left
The Gap between the East and West Walls, where the Watch Towers
were Located and the Soldiers patrolled the Gaps between the Towers
The rear portion of the East Side Gallery, Fasing the River Spree
Another View of the Rear portion of East side Gallery Wall
Some of the Paintings in the Gallery
Some of the Paintings from the Gallery
Floating Hotels in River Spree
There are Floating Hotels in River Spree for the Tourists. They are Named After East and West Germanys. These Floating Hotels, move around the City Transporting the Tourists for the Sight Seeing.
Floating Hotels in River Spree, Eastern And Western Comfort
Hotel Eastern Comfort
