After a long… long flight, Bina was wore out from the flight and decided to stay home and relax while Norom, Ute and I took a walk to see some local sites.
We first went to the Sony center, a shopping mall kind of place that has a massive canopy roof that covers a central court yard which is surrounded by buildings.
There was a crazy big giraffe made out of over-sized Legos block!!! Every body was stepping up to this guy for photos with him!
Close to the Sony Center is the Centeral park of Berlin. It's called Tiergarten (German for Animal Garden) is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in centralBerlin (Germany). Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform, Tiergarten was also the name of a borough, consisting of the current Bezirk of Tiergarten (formerly called Tiergarten-Süd) plus Hansaviertel and Moabit. A new system of road and rail tunnels runs under the park towards Berlin's Central Station in nearby Moabit.
There is a nice monument dedicated to German composers at the Tiergarten at Berlin. In 1904 the sculpturer Rudolph Leopold Siemering and his son, the architect Wolfgang Siemering created this 10 meter high baroque memorial statue in marble. Its three sides are adorned with a dome, on top of which three amorines are holding a laurel wreath. On the three sides are figures of Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart.
We also walked past the point in the city where the east / west wall was. Now they have only bits of it left as an historical monument and in the pavement a band of stone marking its path.
After walking we went back to the apartment and Bina was up, so we went out for dinner.
After dinner we walked around the city for a while. What a beautiful city, especially at night.
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