Andrew Marcus
Berlin

Berlin in August 2008

Upon entering Germany, an endless series of roadside social advertisements, wheat fields, and wind turbines begins.

Wind turbines and fields on the road into Germany

The main attraction of Berlin is a person photographing the location where the Berlin Wall used to stand. The equivalent of the idea of selling snow in Russia here is the sale of fragments of this very wall.

Germans are workaholics and care about the cleanliness of their country. They succeed in this until Russian tourists appear in it.

A clean Berlin street in summer 2008

Berliners have a love for graffiti: smoothly spreading from the Wall, the drawings settled wherever they could.

Another Berlin wall covered in graffiti

One of Berlin’s sister cities, in addition to Moscow, is Los Angeles, which is proudly reminded over a distance by a column with a sign in the central square.

A sign pointing to Los Angeles in Berlin

There are a large number of bicycle lanes here, but they do not reach the monstrous level of Amsterdam.

A cycle lane in Berlin

None of the hotels I had the opportunity to visit had Wi-Fi. Strange.