be light, be life, be Berlin.

When we went up the stairs after alighting the underground train, we looked at the map and tried to look for our hostel. Saw a bunch of people outside a pub drinking and smoking and thought we should move away from them asap. Took a wrong turn and decided that the hostel should be just very near to the station, and the entrance turned out to be the pub which we passed by! Scrambled past the youngsters outside and went in. Turned out that the hostel is just above the pub, and they are essentially the same thing.

A soccer match was on that night so it was more happening than usual. The next day, we went on the walking tour where the guide was a history student before so he told really good accounts of the historical side of Berlin.

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

The memorial is made up of buildings of stones of different heights and sizes. It is "designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason." (source: Wiki) It is true in a way I suppose, K said it's like as you walk deeper into the maze-like structure, you lose sight of the people around you and everyone becomes suspicious of one another, losing sense of hope in a way as well.

Mobile hot dog seller

East Side Gallery - large intact section of the Berlin Wall with beautifully painted murals (one of my favourites of Berlin)

Still need to formulate an interpretation of this painting

When we went to Berlin, it was coincidentally the Festival of Lights, so many of the city's attractions were lit up with colours.

TV Tower

Brandenburg Gate at night

I uploaded more photos on Facebook along with descriptions for most of them if you are interested :)