East-Berlin and Alexanderplatz - well, nowadays just Berlin, but I actually used to work in East-Berlin in 1988, approximately a year prior to the Wall coming down. My apartment was round about here where the photo is taken from. I went back last summer (2012) for the first time since then and managed to locate the building. It had been turned into a hotel.. (I wish all the cockroaches had died out before that). Every morning I walked around the corner and saw the TV-tower, just like in this photo. And I could swear that the Reiseburo sign was even then on the top of that tall building.
It was really interesting to stay and work in the DDR (East Germany), and that is something that no one can experience again.
Berlin has changed a lot from those days. I really enjoyed my stay there, back then, and now, although the experience was slightly different, from many points of view.
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