Berlin wall

Arrived in Berlin midnight Saturday! Sunday afternoon activity was a long walk along the East Side Gallery, the east side of Berlin, to see all the murals and graffiti. Unfortunately it got dark and turned kind of rainy, but the pictures turned out ok! Today I did the "monument tour" and saw the Brandenburg Gate, the Siegessaule, the House of World Cultures, a bunch of random monuments scattered around the Tiergarten, and the Tiergarten itself. Pictures of these later since I already uploaded a million of the Berlin wall today.

I got a picture of this blue guy because a) he's kind of cute and b) his beard says "Do the war against mind's walls."

This says "Many small people in many small places doing many small things can change the face of the world." I'm sure someone famous said something similar, but all I can think of is Galadriel saying "even the smallest person can change the course of the future" to Frodo in the first Lord of the Rings movie...

The red writing above says "Give me a wall so I can escape."

This one's for Dad! See the rabbit-ears?

Her wings are tree limbs, each one sheltering a group of dancing/hugging people. The picture below shows one of the groups of people, since they didn't really show up in this first picture.

Random little people on the wall - each one is about 4 inches high.

I took this one because it says "Catalonia is NOT Spain - freedom!" There was graffiti for just about every independence movement in the world.

"Total democracy."

Peace doves!

"Money can't buy life" in white on the blue background below. No idea what the German says.

It doesn't really show up in this picture, but there are names of some of the major cities in the world on this panel along with the huge "Berlin." You can see "New York" pretty easily.

I liked the black bird.

"Blood of the red zwergs..." Chris doesn't know what "zwergs" means.

"Save our Earth." Not just graffiti for independence movements, but for plenty of other types of movements as well.

Two suns devouring the earth. The US and the Soviet Union, perhaps?

Ideal hopscotch!

Forgot to turn this picture right-side up. I liked the flower. :)

Sun coming up over both sides of the wall.

Man peering over the wall (the blue bit in the picture). Also, "Valencia!"

I thought this said cold when I saw it on the wall, but now it looks quite clearly like "colp." Whatever that means.

This was really small writing in the word "colp."

Cool dragon.

A gate in the wall.

"There are many walls to unbuild."

The Berlin wall version of La Guernica, "La Buerlinica."

Car breaking through the wall.

Two faces breaking down the wall (the black bit in the middle).

"Politics is the forerunner of war with other means."

That's a dove on the right holding the end of the chain attached to the hand of the guy in jail.