"After Dark #2"
This site is dedicated to showing some of our "off
hours" excursions during the second test run at BESSY.
Hotel. Again, we stayed at the Steglitz
International hotel in Berlin. "Steglitz
net site"
Dining. A
few dining photos were taken at one our favorite restaurants in the neighborhood
surrounding the hotel (next trip I will have to write down the restaurants
name so that I can update this page ... if anybody recalls its name, please
email me). We went to dinner after finishing a series of long calibration
runs with Jutta from the lab.
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dinner01. Robert Austin, Bill
Brymer, Mike McDermott, Jutta Auerhammer, and Paul Okun
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dinner 02. Jutta, Paul Okun,
and me.
Sights.
Glienicker Bridge. The famous "spy
bridge" between the former west Berlin and Potsdam where many of the spies
were exchanged including U.S. spy plane pilot Frances Gary Powers for Soviet
agent Colonel Rudolf Abel in 1962.
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Bridge 01. A view while standing
on the Potsdam side.
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Bridge 02. Another view from
the Potsdam side with me.
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Bridge 03. A view from the
Babelsburg Park.
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Web Site 01.
A web site dedicated to this bridge.
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Web Site 02.
A second web site dedicated to the bridge.
The House at the Bridge. Pictures of
the house located on the Potsdam (in the former East Germany) and featured
in Katie Hafner's book "The House at the Bridge". The book, published in
1995, chronicles the houses history through this century with an emphasis
on one family's struggle to reclaim the property after reunification and
the houses struggle to maintain it's identity as it went from the oppulence of a wealthy bankers ownership to state ownership and use as a kinderwochenheim.
Park Babelsberg. Schloss Babelsburg
was built in Potsdam by Schinkel in 1833 as a summer residence for the
Crown Prince, later Kaiser Wilhelm I overlooking the Tiefer See (lake).
Park Sanssouci. Palaces and gardens
built and landscaped in Potsdam through the 18th and 19th centuries with
an extraordinary variety of palaces, temples, and statues. Frederick the
Great commissioned Schloss Sanssouci, the Neues Palais, and the Chinesisches
Teehaus. Friedrich Wilhelm IV added Schloss Charlottenhof, the Romische
Bader and Friedenskirche
Kurfurstandam. The Ku'dam is
a posh shopping strip in Berlin. Just beyond the Kaiser Wilhelm cathedral
is the KaDeWe department store, one of the largest in europe, and outside
of this store in December is a christmas market. The drink of choice,
sold at many of the market "huts" is the Gluwein which is a hot spiced
wine drink.
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Market 01. Robert standing
outside the KaDeWe.
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Market 02. Robert and Bill
getting a mug of Gluwein.
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Market 03. More Gluwein.
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Market 04. We quit our jobs
to make and sell Gluwein.
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Market 05. Inside the KaDeWe
getting a meal and a drink.
Dresden. After reviewing the American
Express guide to Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden for 1994, we almost didn't
go to this beautiful city ... which goes to show you that the savings associated
with purchasing slightly out of date guide books can lead to a real loss
when investigating possible tours in the former East Germany. The city
is approximately 2 hours drive south of Berlin, located along the banks
of the Elbe. Revitalization is readily apparent as one walks the streets
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In and around Dresden center:
Other photo's around Dresden.... the Christmas market
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market01. In the middle of the
market was a huge model of a "Pyramid" which the region is famous for making.
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market02. A childrens show being
presented at the market.
Bautzen. The 1000 year old city of
Bautzen (anniversary year is 2002) is located about 50 km east of Dresden.
This is another beautiful city, much smaller than Dresden, but offering
views of medieval towers and walls surrounding its center. Thanks to Frank
Scholze at the lab, we were advised to make the trip while touring the
Dresden area on our day off from work. We found that the city has not had
much tourism from America yet and would advise anyone who will be in the
area to spend time in its old town center.
Timothy J. Norton
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
(SAO)
60 Garden Street, MS-5
Cambridge, MA 02140
e-mail: tnorton@cfa.harvard.edu
This page last updated April 07, 2000
