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Other side of the other side

Other side of the other side

Some pictures from the other side of the other side, the East side Gallery. There are 105 wall paintings from different artist on this 1316 meters long remains of the Berlin wall. It was painted in 1990 on the east side as a celebration of the opening of the wall. Today it stand as an open air gallery with over 3 million visitors yearly.

If the east or west side was the front side of the wall I let everyone decide for themselves. I only know that a wall designed to separate people and families is never a good thing.

Translation for non German speakers on two of the paintings. “Don’t forget my love”, “The persistence of ignorance”.

Always check the other side, and be glad you can. Ha de Gött!

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Been off grid for a while because I’ve been traveling. To the capital of Germany, Berlin. 900 pictures in the camera and another 200 in the phone so I have some sorting to do.

Today I share a picture of Berlin Alexanderplatz from 209 meters above. Taken from the TV tower (Fernsehturm) that is a landmark, viewable from all angles, in Berlin. With a total height of 368 meters it is the highest building in Germany.

Ha de Gött!

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National Day

National Day

6 of June is the National Day of Sweden and in beautiful Havstenssund the flags are up. The celebration is very moderate and most people spend the day with family, gardening or walk in the nature. I guess it’s a typical for the Swedish mentality, lagom, not too much and not too little.

Five hundred years ago the first Swedish king Gustav Wasa was appointed by the church, king by the grace of God, supported by rich merchants from the Lübeck Hansa. Gustav Wasa was a dictator but he reformed the way the nation was administrated. Somethings lives on still today, so in a way he founded the Swedish democracy.

We are nations but above all, citizens of the Earth, ha de Gött!

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Evening flight

Evening flight

Flying off into the sunset. Commuting business woman in front is already asleep and misses the safety brief. Scared first time flyer behind with sweaty forehead and white knuckles. Smiling stewards and stewardesses slamming their aluminium cupboards. The infant in the back row screams from top of his lungs, sensing his mothers unrest. A last check, all seatbelts fasten, chair in upright position and no blinds down.

Out on to the runway and with a muffled command to cabin crew the pilot gives full throttle. We fly off, off into the setting sun and you find yourself wondering why there life jackets under your seat and not parachutes.

Relax, you always come down. Ha de Gött!

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Cologne

Cologne

The city of Cologne from a dirty airplane window. If you look closely you can see the cathedral at the Rhein river bend. The city is the oldest in Germany. Already year 50 it was granted city privileges from the Roman empire. With one million inhabitants it is the forth largest German city.

What goes up, must come down. Ha de Gött!

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Siegburg

Siegburg

Siegburg is a city with around 42 000 inhabitants 10 kilometres from Bonn and 26 kilometres from Cologne. Administrative centre for the Rhine-Sieg-Kreis district in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. On a high hill in the middle of the city is the old Benedictine monastery founded in 1064. The abbey is known by the name Michaelsberg Abbey.

All places has a story, even the unexpected ones. Ha de Gött!

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