City Hotel am Kurfuerstendamm
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Taking Stock
I remember the wall coming down. I was 8 years old on the 9th November 1989, and I remember seeing the story on the tv in our kitchen. Of course I didn't understand at all what it was all about, but I do remember my mum telling me I should remember this day, it was a momentous day in our history.
Fast forward almost exactly 22 years, and there …
On the road again
Not a long drive today about 3 hours due to the traffic, heaps of traffic, heaps of trucks on the road.Gladly most were heading out of berlin. Last night we played with the Tom Tom ( sat nav ). We changed the voice on it . We could choose between boy or girl with a British, French,German , Dutch or Irish accents. I wanted to go with the French girl accent but even though sexy she was hard to understand. We ended up going with Sean the irishman. The kids reckon ...
Days 2-5: International beer festival in Berlin
... with stalls selling all the different types of pork based fast food that Germany has to offer. It was epic. Slightly shameful was the sight of Fosters and VB as the Australian offering and Abbotts Ale and Green King IPA as the English contingent sitting beside the mighty offerings from Bavaria and Prussia. We had an amazing time and a big thanks to the friends and family that came along to make it such a great send off.
On our last day ...
Day 66 - How to do Berlin in ONE day!
Our plan today was to do the “free tour” of Berlin. The meeting point was at the Brandenburg Gate. The biggest “gate” I have ever seen, it was used to mark the division of East and West Berlin. Unlike the small group in our free tour of Lisbon, this tour group was massive – 25 people, and funnily enough it turned out that our guide was from Western Australia, but had been living in Berlin for eight years.
The tour took four hours and led us ...
Last day in Berlin
... we did not visit that during this trip. Even so, the story of Berlin was interesting. We took a tour through an underground bunker that was built as part of a parking stucture in the mid 70s for civil defense against the atomic bomb. Made you think...what were we thinking then about suriving the A-Bomb? The bunker was supposed to hold 3600 people but realistially would have probably been more suited for a third of that and even ...