Little tiger

Cute N95 video from last summer...

Dejavu

For two days in a row I had to take the train at Berlin Hauptbahnhof (central station). Usually a train station is a place of excitement, a place of expectations and hope, a place linked to the rest of the world. Not for poor commuters like me :-)
It looked the same every day, even the waiting crowd seemed to be the same. Only the weather changed slightly.
Monday morning:
Tuesday morning:
The trip itself to Europes biggest car factory in Wolfsburg was rather nice, though.They prepare a decent Espresso there, not to mention the 50+ designer outlet stores next to Wolfsburg station:-)

Grey winter day

As an excuse for not taking more pictures: this is how Berlin looks these days, grey and cold (pictures from early afternoon last Sunday).



I found just one bright spot: a puppet maker shop with one of my favorite muppets on display. Just to look at him makes me laugh :-)

Berlin Winter-Wonderland

Wow, there are some magical places in Berlin. The Teufelsberg had been built from World War rubble, then became one of the most interesting landmarks of Berlin after the end of the Cold War. Like the Phoenix from the ashes...
Nowadays it is one of the green hearts of the city. Very easy to reach, it surprisingly gives a strong feeling of being deep in the woods. It is especially great on such a beautiful sunny winter day like last Sunday.On top of the hill - not actually the Teufelsberg itself but its closest neighbor - a couple of hang-gliders tried their best to take off on a day without any wind.Actually they almost did it...to the surprise of the crowd and the many children..In any way it would have been a perfect winter day to me, if I only had had a sled like everyone... :-)

Airport series: Berlin Tempelhof

As a corporate Christmas incentive I participated in a guided tour in the recently closed airport Berlin-Tempelhof. For a change it was just pure fun to be on an airport. Though it was rather strange to walk through the empty halls which were a full scale airport a couple of weeks earlier.
No departures, no arrivals expected...
No queues at the check-in, no pretty stewardesses :-( ....
Nobody waits for the luggage....
The good thing about a closed airport was that we were allowed to get onto the airfield itself...even without security checks...
...and into the subterranean levels where, during second world war, fighter jets had been assembled.
There still are a couple of room which were left as they were captured by the Russian soldiers in 1945. This one had been a movie archive of the Nazis. The Russians opened it with explosives with the result of an annihilating fire of the celluloid films (lasted a couple of days), no film roll survived. Until today there are rumours about what actually was stored there, even the mysterious lost amber room was one of the speculations ;-)

Morning surprise

A surprise in the morning..it took almost as much time to defrost my car as to drive to the office. Or better ...to slide to the office.. :-) Others had the same issue...