I'm taking a short 4 day leisure trip with my son 14 years .

I'll be stopping by Monochrom to check the latest ALPA XA
( should be in ) .
Anything that could make a nice photo location .


Last time I've been to Berlin was before the wall came down .

I know about the new Reichstag building ,
some other obvious things like Branderburger Tor ...


Anything else ?

Will be there 28 june until 2 July .

Thanks .

The city has its own tourist information page, which may be of use:
http://www.visitberlin.de/index.en.php

Make sure you take your son to see where the wall used to be...

Mike.

Thanks,

Yes , I have several guides in books too,

I was merely hoping for some more off beaten track location ....
( and photographic interesting ) :-)

Hi!

I don't know if you guys are willing to walk a little, but I'd suggest one of those "Berlin Walks" guided tours. There's plenty of time to shoot and the guide goes to several nice places. It's a lot better than those bus tours where you have to shoot behind the glass.

The last time I did one was in 1999 :-) Hope it's still the same. Look for their meeting points on the web site:

http://www.berlinwalks.com/

Regards,
Luis

That sounds like an interesting options,
after all I have to keep my son activated to compensate his sitting
5 hrs a day in front of Counter Strike ...

Thanks

Luis , Thanks to your suggestions.
I ended with 4 hours bicycle tour :-)



Bus tour I took first was not worth it ..
Walking tour is good for sure .

Most of the central tourist things seems for me to be within walking distance ....

Take a look at a pano of Holocaust Memorial
http://www.viewat.org/?i=en&id_pn=2154&rc=1&sec=pn


regards

BTW,
Berlin is really great city for photography , even police seems friendly, calm and educated .

No one shot at me despite using terrorist weapon of choice - tripod ...

( I have really bad experiences from London , New York and SanFrancisco )

People in Germany simply do not think so much about Photographers using a tripod than you may find in other countries. In France epecially in Paris everybody using a tripod is considered a pro and needs a license just for making some pics from Louvre or Eiffel Tower.

People are crazy.

Gerd

Going to New York 10 days after my short Berlin visit was a bit like going back to EAST Germany in 70s ....
Sorry for that .

Tripod - a weapon of mass destruction , DSLR - a pedophile tool ....

Even in my own hotel ( expensive one in SOHO )
normally very friendly stuff came out really quick from their hidings to briskly inform how forbidden
it was to photograph inside the hotel ...
( I took a snap of my family ).