Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Discover Germany Tour: Potsdam

On my first day in Berlin, I left the town by train toa neary city called Potsdam that was the Residence City of th Prussian kings until 1918. King Frederick II the Great let built a park and the castle Sans Souci (without worries) to live there in summer. It's about 2 km from the city centre and train station.



Even though, he worshipped the outline of Versailles, this summer residence was quite small and only close family, friends and some guests could be entertained there. The side of Sans Souci on the picture is facing the garden and the vineyard (see pic below).


I bought a ticket for the castle at 2 pm but my entry time was more than two hours away, so I started roaming the park of Sans Souci which is filled with trees, flowers and fountains.

foot of the vineyard


Chinese Tea House



Flower bed

1 comment:

Foxtrott said...

Hi Chrris, that is not only a flower Bed that is a really pretty flower bed;-) Glad you are having fun

Steffen