The Potsdam break

No world cup soccer for a little while. Ideal for a trip to Potsdam, the neigbouring city just a few minutes away. I was already there a few times before but now the concrete cause is an exhibition about the works of a famous german architect of the 19 th century – Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After the very informative exhibition including a lot of drafts and paintings I do a little walk through the city.

Potsdam is a very beautiful city, a lot of historical sites, parks and big squares. What is noticeable though is, that although this city has about 200.000 inhabitants, a big part of those is obviously hiding or staying at home. Many sights are just deserted and the only place where you actually meet bigger groups is the pedestrian zone with its shops. Nevertheless, I enjoy walking through the Sanssouci park again, I like seeing those dutch style houses in the dutch
quarter and the Nikolai church (being renovated at the moment) is surely one of the most beautiful buildings in Potsdam.

Whoever visits Berlin should make a short trip over to Potsdam, it is certainly worth a visit.

Square downtown Potsdam

Square downtown Potsdam

tulip exhibition

Definitely worth visiting is the current “Tulipan” exhibition at the Britzer Garten. While reaching this spacious park lasts a while since it is situated in the south-west outskirts of Berlin – I had to take a bus, then a subway and a bus again to get there – the park presents until end of may about half a million tulips of various types. As said in park’s advertisements this is the biggest accumulation of tulips outside the borders of the Netherlands. It is almost a color explosion in front of your eyes and the camera is standard equipment for the many visitors. Very practical: Elevated chairs that you can climb and then sit in. They enable a nice view of the tulip fields.
Tulipan exhibition at the Britzer Garten

But not only the current exhibition is worth visiting, the whole park, built for a national garden exhibition offers much more like a little lake, restaurants, a rose garden etc etc. A recommendation for the visitor: If you enter the garden at the “Blütenachse”, an entrance opened from april to october (reachable with the Bus M44, stop “Zimmererweg”) for about 5 – 10 mins. you will go through something probably typical german on your way through to the entrance – a “Schrebergarten”. It can be described as an area with a lot of little garden houses with gardens where people normally spend their spare time at.

Tulipan exhibition at the Britzer Garten