Berlin’s Empire of Sex – Cosmos Tour
Saturday, June 11th, 2011Beate Uhse, a woman, runs the largest sex empire in the world – sex shows, shops and the Erotik Museum in Berlin.
Beate Uhse, a woman, runs the largest sex empire in the world – sex shows, shops and the Erotik Museum in Berlin.
Berliners have a real sense of humor and love to rename their statues, monuments and
buildings:
The lipstick and the compact
The Pope’s revenge
Jimmy Carter smile
Cheapest lady in Berlin
Garden of Eden
Communist East Berlin built a huge TV tower (shown here), one of the tallest structures in Europe. There’s a restaurant in the middle in a giant silver globe. One concept that the architects hadn’t factored in was how sunlight strikes the globe. It forms the shape of a cross. In those days of an Atheistic communistic state, this was called “The Pope’s revenge”.
And you thought it was only in modern times that invented the toll booth for cars… In 1207 in Segulda, Latvia, when waterways were the highways, there were 3 toll castles on both banks of the Gauja river. In the summer, operas are staged at the Segulda Castle and there’s a hot air balloon festival here.
When Stalin was in power Soviet buildings were designed in a classical style. After his death all buildings were designed for function rather than esthetics.
In Riga and Segulda, Latvia, you may see padlocks attached to small bridges. These were placed here by lovers who lock them on and then throw the key into the river below to ensure their love is locked forever. This tradition actually started in Italy.
Estonia has 1,520 islands (in the Baltic Sea) while Latvia, so close by, has none.