Hi, greetings from Berlin.
My name is Espin.
I'm one of the tour managers with ACIS,
and that is the German parliamentary building.
It's called the Reichstag,
and it's been there for about 125 years.
When they built it, Germany was an empire
under the Kaiser and he said,
"Meh, I want a parliament,
but I want them to do what I want them to do."
so they were called the "Royal Monkeys",
that was the "Royal Monkey House".
It was destroyed in the war,
and Germany eventually reunified
and they built—
British architect, Lord Norman Foster,
cups of tea please—
he built this glass top
and to show transparency;
German Parliament can be trusted again
so that the public could actually see what was going on.
So here we are, the middle of Berlin
the middle of the Regierungsviertel,
and normally this is packed full of people
tourists all around here
looking at the German Parliment.
But not today, coronavirus means
I have mask, I have a beard,
and there's no one around.
Okay, stay safe everyone.
Take care, bye bye.