"Ich gehe zum Bahnhof" is one of the expressions I have managed to retain from the two years of college German I took 55 years ago. I can also tell you what my name is, in German, and count as high as 100. Over the years I have done some immersion Spanish and am currently on day 260 of Duolingo French, but neither of those comes as readily as the German. Oh well. Ich gehe zum Bahnhof.
Berlin's Hauptbahnhof is notable architecturally as well as otherwise and is little more than half a mile away. There are five levels, three of which accommodate trains of whatever sort. Berliners call it a shopping mall with trains. I think of it as a Crystal Palace with trains and shoppes.
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| Approaching from Invalidenstrasse |
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| Unsuccessful pano |
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| Sculpture within |
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| Busy Sunday afternoon |
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| Compare Monet's Gare St. Lazare; up on level 5 |
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| Very large but helpful model down in level 1 |
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There are perhaps 50 or more stores/shops, including 24-hour
grocery and pharmacy, with big names like MediaMarkt and
Decathlon, and at least 20 bakeries |
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| Outside, next door, the Berlin Cube |
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| River Spree waterfront, Reichstag in the background |
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| View of Hauptbahnhof from the river park |
2 comments:
Somehow learning languages is so much easier when you are younger.
That chocolate sculpture is amazing!!! Wow. I hope you ate a Ritter Sport in honor of seeing that. :)
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