pretty as a postcard

Well here it is, my first Berlin post! About blaaardy time too, considering I've been living here for over a month now. Unfortunately I don't have Photoshop (or similar) and am unable to rotate this picture....so you'll just have to twist your necks in a pilates kind of way, in order to have a squizz.
This is Unter den Linden - one of the main drags in the centre of Berlin. The bookshop where I work is also on Unter den Linden, although not shown here. In the background are two major iconic landmarks of the city, the Berliner Dom (Cathedral) and the Fernsehturm (TV Tower).
You can see how during the World Cup, the sphere of the Fernsehturm was made to look like a soccer ball. I thought it looked pretty damn cool, but they've changed it back to plain silver now... I guess they had to, because it was actually spammy advertising for T.Com (a major German telecommunications provider) and therefore couldn't last forever.
Below: Another sadly lop-sided photo. A stack of books sculpture celebrating famous German authors (also on Unter den Linden).

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