DDR Museum Berlin

Today was going to be the big sightseeing day of this mini break.

I got up early and left Samiy in bed to get some breakfast from the buffet. It was a pretty good breakfast and set me up nicely for the day ahead.

The first port of call was Alexanderplatz. We figured out how the clock worked then joined the queue for the Television …

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 …

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 …

We arrived in the capital of the Deutschland, Berlin to begin our new adventures on a new continent. Its a mind-boggling city. Mix some unseasonably cold spring weather with some funky street art and a huge slab of history!

We were lucky enough to have Anthony show us his city. He dressed Pete up to look respectable, he introduced us to …

I woke up the next morning and things were already looking brighter in more ways than one. For the first time since my arrival, the skies were crystal clear and the temperature was livable. I'd get to see some outdoors stuff. yay!

Taking a queue from my time in London, I opted to try out the NewEurope (free) tour of Berlin, as I had …

... only one side without the death zone (area between the two) it was hard to get a real picture. The DDR museum which looked at life in east Berlin under communist rule (they did seem to enjoy playing sport in the nude!!) had pictures and information which ...

... Dom close up, so I enjoyed seeing this other side of Berlin. We made a visit to the relatively new but crampt DDR museum, which provided an interesting and useful insight into the lives of those in the east prior to reunification. I wanted to embark ...

... What I thought would be two hours in the German Museum of History turned into six, and I also visited the quirky and interesting DDR Museum (devoted to the Communist regime in the East).  While I walked by the massive TV tower many times, I decided ...

... day here and wanted to see everything. They invited me to join, and we had a great day! We saw the DDR Museum - Museum of East Berlin, which had some really interesting stuff. Everything from using nudity to protest the regime to the education children ...

... be a liberal city, but I doubt they would turn a blind eye to tourists squatting in the gutters. We had decided to visit the DDR Museum the next day. DDR of course stands for Democratic Deutsche Republic and was the old East Germany. The title in itself ...

... dollars to undermine there economies. Even the Bank of England could not pick which notes were fakes! We also visited the DDR Museum which is dedicated to showing what life was like in East Germany. The Museum was very interactive but was packed full ...

... dominated the first three rooms in an awe-inspiring manner. Past a quick view of the Berliner Dom (a church), we visited the DDR museum for a bit of history on the Soviet's half of Germany. Went walkabouts. Neue Wache memorial. Brandenburg Gate. ...

... cruising across to the King Neptune fountain for a nanna nap on a bench. After that we were refreshed. Next we visited the DDR Museum, a small but very hands on and interesting look at how people lived in the DDR. The afternoon was getting chilli but ...

... off at the hotel for a brief breather and then onto museum island to check out the museums. We walked through the DDR museum which was rather interactive complete with their own trabi car. It was mainly focused on one portion of the German/Berlin ...

... the bells tolled for mass and were very loud indeed. We crossed the bridge to Museum Island and decided to visit the DDR Museum first. The museum is quite unusual as it is very "hands on" as you investigate life in East Germany during communist rule. ...