Theme of the day: Here is the old building and now here is the new one. Everything is being made new.
Thank you Harry for guiding me around the city on a bicycle tour! I think I took too many pictures.
Potsdam from above!
the bridge that divided west berlin and potsdam
beautiful grove of trees
steam engine house with Turkish architectural influence
The big three from the Potsdam Conference
Restoration work at the cemetery
from above
marble
former wall marker
roman baths– I wouldn’t mind having dinner at this table
in the winter they build funny houses over all the sculpture to protect them from snow
old grotto facade
restoration in the cemtery
not a grave
einstein turm for observation of the sun
from above II
sculpture graveyard
more figures on the roof
figures lining the roof
And because everything is new there is a lot of beautiful scaffolding:
Just two days ago I saw the movie “Bridge of Spies” which featured just that bridge you snapped a photo of — is it named Glienicke Bridge? It is a good movie starring Tom Hanks, set in the Cold War, during 1957.