Allen visits Braunschweig, Germany, where he has a team that is part of his org. The team is responsible for Bench Device Characterization and works for a manager that reports into Allen.

Allen took a day off and visited Berlin. Berlin is an entirely different place and re-developed since Allen studied there at the Stanford center in 1992. The wall came down in 1990 and reconstruction was not yet full steam ahead on the eastern portion of Berlin. For example, Postdamerplatz and the surrounding of Brandenburg Gate were basically empty in 1992, but now fully built up in 2006.

 

Allen took a walk from Alexanderplazt (Marien Kirche, Fernseh Tuerm, etc) on Under Den Linden all the way down to Reichstag.

Berliner Dom on Museum Island.

Brandenburg Gate. Picture with Guy Murray, the Scottish chap, who reports to Allen and manages the Braunschweig team.

Reichstag with the new glass dome.

The french cathedral in Gendarmenmarkt square