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Travel Blogs from Berlin
The Berlin Wall and the Cold War
... standing in front of us and the history of it. Some of the things we learnt were *Why and how Berlin was divided from East and West Berlin *Tales of espionage by both the Allies and feared East German secret police (Stasi) *The downfall of communism *Escape attempt stories (some successful, some not) and much more It was another full on day with an overload of information and we were freezing so it was time to head home and warm up. ...
Day 21-22 Bikes in Berlin
... lunch during the tour at a beer garden where we had a yummy pizza thing and a weird beer with raspberry. After lunch we rode around the beautiful teir garden which was like a rainforest in a city and I could have riden through it all day.
After the tour walked towards a chocolate shop via some souvenir stores and H&M. ...
Beer in Berlin
... where we discovered the all to cheap jager shots in Berlin!
Friday 2nd March
After not much sleep I got up early to go to get another free tour but this time to the concentration camp. However I was the only one who turned up so I headed to the non-free one which started later. Here I met the nice couple from New Orleans from the first tour, as well as ...
Berlin Marathon
When you've been traveling for eight long soul sapping hours on a Polish train, and they have you running an hour behind schedule by only the third station, you then have to marvel how the hell the German's manage to make up most of that time as soon as you get over the border. It is the miracle of the modern, industrious, and ruthlessly efficient Deutschland that they are able to achieve marvels such as these that lift my heart on a cold Tuesday evening.
After 20 hours ...
My First night in Berlin
... which was very handy, as I had my Nook tablet with me. I headed out with a group of people to find a section of the Berlin Wall that had been left standing.
We were with one guy who had been to Berlin before but other than that we decided to just wing it and check out cool looking stuff on the way. We walked down the fairly large street a block from our hostel, which has a fancy looking theater and what we would learn ...