Berlin, Germany

I travelled to Berlin by car in winter 1992 and it was cold, -6°C during the day. Arriving in the evening, the city was enveloped in winter darkness with the streets eerily empty for a city it's size. Somehow this felt like being on the set of a film. With hardly any people on the streets due to the cold, it was insightful to explore the city's former eastern and western sides. The unification of Germany had just taken place and the differences between east and west were glaring. After Berlin I continued on to Dresden before returning to Zurich. The highways of the former East Germany were mostly built with ill fitting and badly maintained concrete slabs so driving at high speeds was both dangerous and noisy.

The TV Tower, formerly in East Berlin, can be visited by lift

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedñchtniskirche, left in it's bombed-out state after WWII

The wide 'Strasse des 17. Juni' road, with the Brandenburger Tor and the TV Tower in the distance

It was so cold that the river was frozen

The entrance to the Pergamon Museum (formerly in East Berlin)

The Pergamon museum's centerpiece is the Pergamon Altar, an original Greek temple

The steps of the Pergamon Temple have neon lights on them

Old Military Hardware at the site of the former Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie

The most famous symbolic structure in Berlin, the Brandenburger Tor, completed in 1791 divided East and West Berlin after 1945. Most of it was destroyed during the war and is rebuilt

Berliner Rathaus. There are so many wide open spaces in this city. They're wonderful even though most of them seem unfinished

The gate to the Zoo at night

The Berlin Wall

Schloss Charlottenburg, completed in 1699. Just next door is the Egyptian Museum

Gedñchtniskirche

The top of the TV tower has disappeared in the winter mist

Doorway in the city of Dresden