Visiting the Jewish memorial in Berlin, with Karyn and Melissa.
Tag: Deutschland
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Koln memorial
I came across this very old church whilst walking around Köln in Germany. It is known as Alt St. Alban. It was a church which was destroyed during World War 2 and is now used as a memorial to the victims of war.
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Photo difficulties
My friend Madvhi took a photo of me last night. It came out oddly, with strange white lines everywhere. When I tried to do a selfie, the framed picture on the wall behind me got messed up. I can’t figure out why. Very odd.
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Turmwanderweg hike
I did the Turmwanderweg, a hike in Brandenburg from Bad Freienwalde to Falkenberg. Ze Germans have a strange obsession with putting big towers in the middle of nowhere, for the purpose of climbing and admiring the scenery. This hiking route traversed between six of these for us to check out on our way. We had great weather, and a nice bunch of people as always 🙂
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Stasi Museum
Michelle and I visited the Stasi Museum in Lichtenberg, Berlin. The museum is based in the old Stasi head offices.
This is no ordinary belt 😉 The belt clip includes a small semi-transparent window which allows a camera to be placed behind it. 
The office of Erich Mielke, head of the Stasi. 
An envelope steamer 
Key soap, used for replicating keys. 
Matt Damon was apparently a member of the Stasi before taking up acting. 
Old school Stasi microphone and listening device 
Stasi uniform and weaponry 
Get Smart would be proud. A shoe designed to hide various equipment, including listening devices. 
A Stasi paper shredder. Useful for when you are doing things you shouldn’t be doing. 
Erich Mielke’s telephone. It includes hot numbers for all of the major communist bloc places the Stasi needed to communicate with. -
Adjusting my camera
Photo of me adjusting my camera.
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Brisetal hike
Some photos from a recent hiking trip near Brisetal in Brandenburg.
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I bought a new camera 🙂
Out with the “proper” camera and in with the GoPro 🙂 I remember seeing these when they first came out. I was super jealous, as I had attempted to make action cameras out of old camera parts before and the quality was nothing like as good as these fancy new GoPro things. Unfortunately their price was stupidly high too. The price is still stupidly high, but I’m not as poor now, and the quality is even better. After the death of my old Canon G1X, I realised that I really enjoyed having an indestructible easy to use camera which I could use at any time and anywhere, hence I decided to upgrade from my little Mobius to a GoPro Hero Silver and don’t have any immediate plans to replace my old “proper” camera.
Thanks to Mo for taking the picture of me, and Anna for posing for the giant eye shot.
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Spargell in Beelitz
For the second year in a row, I have headed to Beelitz just south of Berlin by bike, for the beginning the asparagus (spargell) season. We went to one of the best asparagus restaurants in Germany, the rode our bikes back to Berlin.
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Co-working at Hermann Schulz
Co-working at Hermann Schulz with the Coding Amigo’s crew.
