{"id":124,"date":"2011-10-19T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/?p=124"},"modified":"2011-10-19T23:51:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:51:35","slug":"kudamm-zoo-and-kadewe-with-robert-dan-and-niguel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/2011\/10\/19\/kudamm-zoo-and-kadewe-with-robert-dan-and-niguel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ku&#8217;damm, Zoo and KaDeWe with Robert, Dan and Niguel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2302.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-184\" title=\"Lipstick &amp; powder box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2302-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2302-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2302-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2302.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-182\" title=\"Niguel tells us about it\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2277-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our students Robert, Dan and Niguel took us on a great tour of the Ku&#8217;Damm\/Zoostation area of Berlin this Tuesday. We began just off the Ku&#8217;Damm at the Ged\u00e4chtniskirche &#8211; the ruin of a church built by Kaiser Wilhelm II and bombed in 1943. The ruin has become one of the symbols of Berlin, but you can&#8217;t see it at the moment &#8211; it&#8217;s under that ugly white scaffolding you can see in the picture above. Surrounding the ruin are a chapel and belltower designed by the German modernist Egon Eiermann in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-183\" title=\"Max &amp; Klayton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2284-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2284-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2284-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2284.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We headed into the ground floor of the ruin first. The ceiling still displays some beautiful Byzantine-style mosaics, duly appreciated by our class &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZD09P4dswY?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We then headed next door to the Eiermann-designed chapel. Though the newer buildings aren&#8217;t much to look at from the exterior (Berliners have nicknamed them the &#8220;lipstick and powder box&#8221;), the chapel is pretty stunning on the interior. We caught the organist practicing, which added to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2309.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-185\" title=\"Zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2309-e1319060288886-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2309-e1319060288886-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2309-e1319060288886-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2309-e1319060288886.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our next stop was the zoo, where our guides not only acquainted us with the incredible diversity of its inhabitants &#8211; the most in the world! &#8211; but related the heartbreaking story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knut_%28polar_bear%29\" target=\"_blank\">Knut<\/a>, the baby polar bear born in the zoo in 2006. Knut was a media favorite (with good reason &#8211; he really was incredibly adorable!), but unfortunately he died earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2310.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-186\" title=\"KaDeWe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2310-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2318.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-187\" title=\"KaDeWe exterior\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2318-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2318-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2318-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2318.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mood picked back up as we moved to our last stop, the famous Kaufhaus des Westens, or KaDeWe. It&#8217;s the biggest department store in continental Europe, with a history that spans over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"Washington wine at the KaDeWe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2323-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2323.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top floor of the store is known for its incredible selection of foods, both local and imported. And what should we find as we come up the escalators but a little taste of home &#8211; Columbia Crest, on sale. It seems we&#8217;re not the only Washington imports to Berlin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Our students Robert, Dan and Niguel took us on a great tour of the Ku&#8217;Damm\/Zoostation area of Berlin this Tuesday. We began just off the Ku&#8217;Damm at the Ged\u00e4chtniskirche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,104],"tags":[56,105,60,52,10,103,59,57,29,48,31,35,58,61,62,13,34,28,55],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-field-trips","category-food","tag-animals","tag-architecture","tag-churches","tag-commemoration","tag-food","tag-fun","tag-kadewe","tag-knut","tag-memorials","tag-monuments","tag-post-war-berlin","tag-ruins","tag-shopping","tag-stores","tag-streets","tag-walks","tag-war","tag-west-berlin","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naraelle.net\/chidberlin11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}