Breakfast at Cafe Kranzler

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Beautiful sunny morning. Undertook expedition into the heartland of West Berlin and what a better place to go than to the temple of German cafes, Kaffee Kranzler, at the corner of Joachimstaler Strasse and Ku'Damm. For me this cafe will always epitomize the 60's and the grandeur of former West-Berlin. Of course, it has underwent quite a change, and is now just a reminder of its former self. Rebuilt by Helmut Jahn it now part of a gigantic ensemble of glass fassades that have become quite ubquitous these days. Only the rotunda of the cafe remains, overlooking the streets below. If you look across diagonally you glimpse a large pixelated screen advertising many useless things, except of course the iPod :) Breakfast was lousy but it was hard to beat the view and weather