Tracking The Potsdam Conference

Prequel

My mother and daughter went to Potsdam on their tour into East Germany in 1976). They went to San Souci.

I have a couple of photos my daughter took there.

SanSouci

They were shown the room where the Potsdam conference was held. My mother (as was her wont) took a photo out of the window. Some of the other people on the tour came to her and said that the guards were upset about the photo as it would show the East German side of "the wall". They said she should make herself scarce. So she and my daughter put on their raincoats, and hid their cameras and got back on the bus. The photo did not show anything remarkable - it was just a bleak landscape. I don't have that photo right now.

End Prequel

After lunch, we got on a boat and rode out to Potsdam

Dock in Berlin

Playground near the dock

Dog on the dock

Looking back at the stern

Mallard near the dock

Passing boat on the left - Guide at the front of the boat

Pfaueninsel

Boats

Moby Dick

One of the ferry boats

Beach

House on shore

Aid to Navigation

Boat house

It was a nice boat ride (we were on the top deck) and B slept a little bit on the life preserver box.

Glienicke Bridge from the ferry

Glienicke Bridge

Peacock Island Palace

Lower deck of the boat

Ladies room

Looking out through a window screen or curtain

Boat landing

We got to Potsdam about 1500, and walked up to Cecilienhof where the Potsdam Conference was held. Here I decided it would be too much walking for me, so Suzanne (our minder) took me back to the bus. My granddaughter went on with the group. She reported that the tour was was mostly of the gardens

Scene walking up to the palace

Still a Red Star in the garden

Side door with topiary

Ladybug on a leaf

Day Lily

Spider on a poppy bud

and they didn't go into the house. The best she was able to do was to take a pictureure of the window in the room where the Potsdam conference was held.

Window to the room of the Potsdam conference

Chimney Pots of Cecilienhof

Then we got back on the bus and drove around Potsdam itself

Potsdam medieval wall

Gate

Street in Potsdam

Approaching the Potsdam Filmmuseum

New Palace as we pass

Our bus follows the green line

Trams and buses

Obelisk Gate of San Souci

Arch and Column

Ornate top of New Chambers building

Until we got to Sansouci Park.

Park map posted at Sans Souci

Finally, here, even my granddaughter decided that it was too much to do so we both opted to stay in the bus area. She wanted an ice cream got to Sansouci Park. but I had only 1.5 euros and the concession stands

Candy land

wouldn't take any other kind of money, so she got 1.5 euros worth of the gummy bear type candy.

Gummy Bear type candy

Granddaughter reflected in the window

Then the bus took us back to the train station where we were supposed to take our some seats for the ride back. But apparently the other four people in the compartment decided among themselves that we should have the window this time, so that's where we were. B slept a little. The train picked up the rest of the tour groups in Berlin and then the train took us back to the port.

Back on the train

Granddaughter on trip back

Susanne (who is a college student - married - age 26 with a five year old and a 3 month old child) gave us

German chips

and

Nic Nacs

(both very salty) for snacks

WIndmills

We got back about 2030, and after dropping our stuff at the cabin, we went right to the dining room. They were having a BBQ on the Lido deck, but I was not up for that. I had Melon and Papaya slices and B had

Steamed Manila Clams

as appetizers. She had double baked potato soup and I had Prime Rib. B went to bed after dinner, but I went out and took pictures of the port area in the dark (now about 2330).

From the deck

Looking into a building

B took almost 500 pictures, and I took 340. They are not all edited.