okay what we're looking at here are folks coming and going from Alexander
Platz this is the railway station subway station transportation facility you've
got streetcars outside buses trains regional trains you can go anywhere in
Germany if not Europe from this location it's absolutely amazing
and over top of the roof we're looking out over a little bit of the city of
Berlin and that is the city hall and that was used by the East Germans as
their City Hall for East Berlin during the years that the Berlin Wall was up
right after the war and then when reunification happened the city of
Berlin unified as one and now that is today's City Hall with a flag on top the
Berlin flag here is the 110 story tall TV tower in formerly East Berlin that
the East Germans built in 1965 I really tried with my camera to focus in on the
tip and it's hard to capture it it's so far up there but eventually my
cameraman actually got it don't finally focus in on it that's way
way up there and you can see all of this technical equipment here all these
satellite relays and and for cell phones and televisions and radio signals it's
an amazing complex piece of technology the round ball there that is the
observation deck and of course it has an elevator to take you up and down now all
around this area there are churches and buildings from every time frame you can
imagine we're talking about buildings from the 15 1600s from the sixties the
20s modern-day Berlin is a hodgepodge of architecture just no end to it forgive
my shaky shaky filming here but I'm trying to catch the top of some of these
church spires and it's an amazing thing to see when you're there in person
beautiful city to visit you just can't go wrong going to Berlin they speak
English everywhere there are English signs everywhere these rectangular
buildings that you see here are from the East German days from the 50 60s and 70s
and 80s these were prefab buildings that were
designed to house East Germans they desperately needed housing to attract
people to come to East Germany in East Berlin in particular here we have the
spree River looking down here towards treptower park and this old bridge that
it used to be part of East Berlin 700 year old bridge there's the Alliance
Insurance Building part of the treptower office complex it's a 410 foot tall
building 31 floors about and condos are beginning to be built along the side of
these these canals these Rivers office complexes cranes you'll see cranes
everywhere in Berlin it's still under construction because of the
reunification there's the TV tower and look in the other direction looking back
at the churches or shopping malls all around they're very people friendly
pedestrian friendly bike friendly rent a bike and tour of the city you're gonna
love it you'll be able to experience the feel of neighborhoods rather than being
in a car or just in the subway all the time you'll do a lot of walking too
don't worry about that one more thing down the river here I'm
gonna zoom in here shortly there's a tour boat there are tons of these there
have to be 50 of these in the city they're quite large in some cases
they'll hold up to 250 people at a time the top deck is for viewing the bottom
deck as the restaurant the bar the bathrooms comfortable you go for one
hour two hours fantastic experience you really get a great view
of the city by the way the the tour guides on top of those ferry's they
speak English as well as a German they'll tell you what's going on
and they're happy to answer questions you really can learn
about the city from from those guys this here is I think a college I just stopped
my bike and had to take a shot with my camera the beautiful colors of these
leaves we're looking here at the end of September early October for timing it's
just gorgeous great time of year to go to Berlin because you're out of the high
season that's not 95 100 degrees anymore it's a comfortable 65 75 degrees during
the daytime and go for a nice long walk and see these magical colors and
experience the city and in a quieter setting very bike friendly as I was
saying this is basically a lane way for vehicles took another shot of that
building the colors at the end of the day there with the sun shining in on
those I think stained glass windows and so on just amazing that red brick just
stood out really caught my eye but here on the sidewalk you'll notice here are
bike lanes so you can you can give pedestrian to to walk your bicycles to
ride parks everywhere great experience go to Berlin you'll love it