Despite my earnest attempts I’m not yet bilingual. However, German is startlingly easy to understand. Put -stag at the end of at word and you have a building. Use -strasse and you’ve got a street. Platz is place — like piazza. Hey! We get it!!
Thus the theme of our recent wanderings.
Built to house the German Parliament, the Reichstag was intended as a symbol of national unity and to showcase the aspirations of the German Empire, circa 1871.
The Neo-Renaissance design was intended to capture the prevailing spirit of German optimism.
In 1916 the inscription “Dem Deutschen Volke” — to the German people — was added. The day we visited the line to enter extended the length of a football field.
The Altes Museum is built in the Neo-Classical form and houses a large collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including a mosaic from Hadrian’s villa, near Tivoli, on the outskirts of Rome!
A Greek hero, Pollux, slaying a lion.
Easy, boy.
About two dozen of these intricately carved gods and goddesses line the perimeter of an inner dome.
Time for a snack!
Around the corner Mel, using his Manitoba-dialect Ukrainian, befriended a Russian ex-pat who in turn sold us some Authentic! Russian Army! Hats!
Around the corner, in Alexanderplatz, a neo-millennial structure we comprehended immediately.
And another. Something for everyone in Berlin.
The Country Mice 
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Lulu (Liliana)
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