Today I decided to go over to eastern berlin to check out a rather famous landmark, namely the East Side Gallery.
To get there, I took the U-bahn from Nollendorfplatz (the station near my apartment) all the way to Warschauerstrasse, got off, walked about half a mile down to the Spree river, and then turned up a road that ran parallel to the river.
The gallery itself is actually a long piece of wall (parts of which apparently came from the original berlin wall - don't quote me on that though, that's just what I heard from somebody), that was painted by famous graffiti artists over the last few years.
Each mural was about 20 feet long, and as high as the wall (about 12 feet or so). Some ran a bit longer, and each was very cool.
A lot of the murals had themes of entrapment and subsequent freedom (paralleling the history of east berlin). A lot of the murals had poetry and dedications to people who had died. The whole thing was pretty powerful.
The gallery stretched along the road as far as you could see.
