Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) Berlin

After watching Australia topple the South Africans in the RWC quarterfinal after a very undeserving win (but a win is a win boys!), then we got a train in the wrong direction to Berlin!! Interestingly enough, Sonja was intrigued by the rugby match, stating 'this is a much better game than Soccer, you get so badly hurt with lots of blood and you …

Time: 07.34pm Weather: Sunny -5°C

This morning started a little later than I had intended because my alarm (which I had set last night in a haze of jet lag) turned out to be 07.30pm instead of am. Because of that my breakfast was rather hurried and I missed my bowl of fruit and yogurt. I spent a while on Skype again this morning, it is …

It's surprising how easy it was for me to fall asleep on board the overnight train. I guess its the rocking... but I did wake up a few times when it became a bit colder... brrrr....

The train reached Berlin Lichtenberg Station at 745am. After which we alighted to take the S-bahn which is free to Jannowitzbrucke, and then buy a ticket (EUR1 …

We began our day at the East Side Gallery in Kreuzberg Berlin. This gallery is devoted to show a portion of the Berlin Wall that has many famous paintings by famous artists on it. The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviet Union starting in August of 1961. It completed the "Iron Curtain" between the West and the East. The Iron Curtain is the idea of …

Berlin was amazing. So much history and soooo much to see. We were given the background on Berlin’s troubled history in our morning city tour. We learn about the East/West split at the Berlin Wall and check out the controversial Reichstag (German Parliament) as well as Tiergarten (one the world’s biggest parks), an learnt the layers of …

We were both really excited about Berlin and we were pulling a 7-nighter here so took our time to enjoy this fascinating and exciting city.

We got stuck straight in with a 4-hour segway tour on our first full day there. After a quick practice we were whizzing round at top speed (well, the max we could go which was topped at 20kph, but …

The second day started with us having to go out hunting for breakfast. As the hotel breakfast would have been €12 each we thought it better to try and find a café nearby. Fortunately it was only a 5 minute walk down the round before we found somewhere. It was a nice little café with various types of coffee lining the wooden fascias of the …

We walked our feet off again today and got a lot of use from our public transport ticket. The weather was absolutely perfect; sunny, warm. We visited the DDR (East Germany) Musuem which was very informative and unusual in that it is totally hands-on and interactive. You pick up, touch, feel the everyday items from the old East Germany and the …

Bajé en Berlin Zoo a las 6 de la mañana y me encaminé hacia mi hostel, un lugar muy bonito y grande. Una vez que hice el check-in a las 8 de la mañana y dejé mi mochila, me dirigí a recorrer la ciudad y mi primer objetivo fue tomarme el ómnibus 100 que realiza un buen recorrido de la ciudad.


Subí, tenía dos niveles el omnibus, y me …

Wednesday 29^th February
Got up way too early for my liking in order to check out, walk to the Metro, get the Metro to the train station, get the bus to the airport and onto my flight to Berlin. I managed to do all this though and made my flight with time to spare (and time to grab breaky at the airport – very important). The …

... in graffiti and pigeon droppings despite it’s historical significance. We also saw sights from the Prussian times such as the Brandenburg gate which was one of several large gates through which you entered the city of Berlin.  We also saw ...

... the folding bikes we had brought to ride to the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten (large park), the Victory column and the Brandenburg Gate. We explored what used to be the East German side of the gate (Unter den Linden Strasse), found a nice ...

... if any of these people tagged the inside of their own homes, and if not, why not? After lunch, we walked to the Brandenburg Gate. Being tourists as we are, we had to take our pictures underneath it. This gate, along with the Arc de Triumphe have to be ...

... of what it was like living in a divided country. To celebrate, Berliners throw a massive street party right outside of Brandenburg Gate, complete with live music, sausage stands everywhere and even more beer stalls. What would a German celebration be ...

... We first headed to a cool chocolate shop that made Megan drool the previous day.  They even had massive models of the Brandenburg Gate, Parliament building, and even the Titanic all made out of chocolate.  It was pretty impressive.  After checking out ...

... plazas and cobblestone streets of Munich, preferring imperfect boulevards to lead the way to the Brandenburg Gate, Goddess of Civtory and the Reichstag. Parts of Berlin stand in stark contrast to the old Berlin. The Fehrumstrum in Alexanderplatz, being ...

... in the middle of a square), even the hotel where Michael Jackson held his baby over the railing (right next to the Brandenburg Gate). We moved from the gate, saw the powerful Jewish Memorial (and learned of all the controversies surrounding that -- for ...

... introduce you to the city which you could explore in more detail on your own. We took sights such as the famous Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin wall or what's left of it, Hitler's bunker, Victory column, the Deathstrip, Checkpoint Charlie or the former ...

... revelled in our loss of rebellion. You simply can't risk free-riding in Berlin it seems. The Berlin Wall, The Goddess of Victory, the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial and the Reichstag all got a visit. As you can imagine the Berlin ...

... Building, old Luftwaffe Headquarters, new Jewish Holocaust Memorial and the site of Hitler's Bunker. We also rode through the famous Brandenburg Gate then headed to Checkpoint Charlie and the Babel Platz, the site of Nazi book burning. This was when ...