East Side Gallery 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 …

More building works today. We decided to visit the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church - a WWII bomb damaged church which has been left pretty much as was - only to struggle to find it as it was clad in scaffolding and hidden from sight while repairs are made. The inside, with red veined patched mosaics and stairs leading nowhere was still thought …

Helene is writing!
It is long time ago, but i still have the paiper from the trip, the teachers gave us!
We stayed at a young-peoples hostel. There were almost only pupils there, so it was a bit noisy, but we slept well!
It was the half of our school/class, so many of the day, we split, many were skimp of would not give money for …

Success....I finally found a coffee shop that served good coffee here. In Italy there were coffee shops everywhere, but near where I am staying in Berlin there are very few. It's a great way to start the day.

Today there are four things on my to do list that I would like to accomplish and the rest of the day is to go wherever I find …

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 …

Landed in Berlin yesterday on direct train from Amsterdam.
Today we walked the Berlin wall well part of it anyway. Then walked around the city saw the Jewish memorial cemetery was pretty crazy. After lunch went to the east side gallery which is a huge wall that graffiti artists paint awesome artwork on. After heaps of walking we went to see the …

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 next morning we went back to the same café for tea and croissants, and after a quick trip to the supermarket for some water we headed out from Nollendorfplatz on the metro. The aim for today was to visit the Charlottenburg palace and the botanical gardens - not much, but we thought it might take a while to get to these places. For the majority …

Sólamente había podido reservar alojamiento en Berlin por una sola noche, así que lo primero que hice al levantarme fue validar si podía prorrogar mi estancia por un día más. Como me fue posible, diagramé mi día para ir a ver el muro in-situ y conocer el estadio olímpico.


Mientras estaba en la fila aguardando para corroborar si había …

I am obsessed with this city. When we arrived to Berlin we went straight to our hostel because it was such a long train ride. And our train got delayed of course haha all the German trains we have ridden has had a delay.
After we finally figured out which spot was where our train is we got food. We were waiting for the bus to come pick us up …

... . When we finally motivated, we had sandwiches around the corner and then took the U-Bahn to the East Side Gallery - the longest stretch of the Berlin Wall that's still standing. Artists have covered the whole wall in graffiti and murals, so while it ...

... for a couple of photos. We also jumped on the metro across town to one of the last remaining sections of the Berlin Wall called the East Side Gallery. The Gallery was painted after the fall of the Wall and as has happened pretty much the entire time ...

... 80s paraphernalia, perfect for my bad taste party coming up in london!! then went on to see the famous East side gallery, where international artists have painted murals along the longest remaining stretch of the wall...there was still a guy ...

... home though. By this time we were starting to tire but we still wanted to see the East Side Gallery. The East Side Gallery is the largest portion of the Berlin wall that is still standing. We hopped on the subway and then walked all along it. The wall ...

... buildings surrounding the Reichstag. Still, it was interesting to see the glass dome. Once down, we made our way over to the East Side Gallery. This is the largest piece of the wall that is left. 1.5 Klm's long and painted by people from all over the ...

... Their fifteen minutes of fame, I suppose. On the way back to the hotel on Wednesday, we made a stop at the East Side Gallery, which is the largest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall. It is several hundred meters long and covered in colourful and ...

... like for the select few that made it down into the shelter if a nuclear war had broken out.  We also saw the East Side gallery, which is the largest remaining section of the Wall, and has since been covered in all kinds of interesting (and often ...

... your face.  Literally, that happened to me. Anyway, after the tour was done Beth, Liz and I went to the East Side Gallery.  This is a section of the remaining wall that they turned into something of an art gallery.  They allowed different ...

... for Freedom" on the wall. Believe it or not, that song spent 8 weeks at number one.  The East Side Gallery is pretty cool, thats where all the Berlin Wall murals are painted. It kind of sums up Berlin really, it's pretty edgy, has a chilling history ...

... and we were on the metro again. Had a quick lunch at Ostbahnhof (literally east station I think). Ran out to the East Side Gallery for some quick photos of a large section of the Wall, now covered in artwork themed loosely around the Wall. Another train ...