Which is real and which is made of little Lego blocks? I'd seen Legoland in Google maps so wanted to have a look. Didn't realise it's a children's play centre. I guess that's what happens when you only have an offline map.

We headed north through the Tiergarten to enjoy the greenery. It's a short stroll to the Monument to the Soviet Soldiers, Straße des 17. Juni 4, 10557 Berlin, Germany.

Panorama. The memorial takes the form of a curved stoa topped by a large statue of a Soviet soldier. It is set in landscaped gardens and flanked by two Red Army ML-20 152mm gun-howitzer artillery pieces and two T-34 tanks. Behind the memorial is an outdoor museum showing photographs of the memorial's construction and giving a guide to other memorials in the Berlin area.

A photo of his best side? The Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in April and May 1945.

We left the memorial and in less than a minute we're at the Reichstag Building, Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany. It's an impressive structure yet like everything

The Reichstag building was constructed to house the Imperial Diet (German parliament (Reichstag)), of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 1933, when it was severely damaged after it was set on fire. It underwent a reconstruction from 1990, and after its completion in 1999 it once again became the meeting place of the German parliament: the modern Bundestag.

We continued on past the Reichstag and headed up the river. Didn't realise till then it was the Spree. This was us looking back up the Spree to the back of the Reichstag Building.

This was taken two days later. It was a beautiful day and I have a day travel pass so I quickly revisited a couple spots for the lighting and some photos. This is the rear of the Reichstag from the side closest to Brandeburg Gate.

After walking the Spree we looked back towards Brandeburger Tor. This was the wide view at Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Brandenburger Tor or Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin, Germany The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after the (temporarily) successful restoration of order during the early Batavian Revolution. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

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When I revisited the gate I came from the side and noticed this inset.

This was one of the shots I took on my 2nd revisit.

Yes this was also the second day with an angle from in front of the French embassy.

After day 1 of the conference Mandy and I enjoyed a drink at the back of the Ritz-Carlton and then had a bite to eat near the gate. To get to the gate from Potsdamer Platz you pass the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The memorial, also known as the Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It consists of a 19,000 m2 (4.7-acre) [2][3] site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. According to the architect's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason.

Before we went back to the room I took some evening shots of the gate.