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Autumn in Berlin
We are freezing our butts off in Berlin! It's getting colder and colder by the day the more our travel journey continues. Im sure we will get a bit of a shock heading back to a scorching brissie summer! But putting the ice factor aside, Berlin is a great vibrant city. Our first night we didn't get in until quite late from our bus journey so we just had a wee quiet nightcap (and pretzel - yum, i am obsessed with german food!) at the hostel bar and tucked in for an early night. ...
Berlin : Not what I was expecting
... renovation. The glass and steel dome has a series of ramps that allows superb views of the city and the parliamentary plenary chamber below. Several environmentally friendly initiatives have been built in including use of reflected day light and rain water recycling from the open top dome.
Following the dome visit we caught a tourist bus that ...
Sachsenhausen/ Berlin Wall
... and then hang them up on the pole. It would eventually dislocate their shoulders, and sometimes lead to death. We then saw the buildings that prisoners actually lived in. Sometimes they would squish up to five people on a bunkbed and the toilets- around eight- had to be shared by sometimes up to 400 people. Outside of that area is the giant memorial, but it's not for the holocaust victims. It is actually for the people imprisoned by the Soviet union when they ...
Dinner for One and fun for a million
... these were cheaper and there was a much bigger range.
Continuing down Schlossplatz and over the first of the Spree bridges we stopped to enjoy the bells ringing out from the squat and blocky Collegiate Church and admire the 'sails' of the Humboldt Box whilst giggling at the idea of the Lustgarten. There was no lust in evidence this evening. Onto Unter den Linden which was being used as a race track by an expensive looking sports car and left onto ...
"Don't be shy, you're in Germany now"
... the top!
Later we went to the 'Topography of Terror' which is a free outdoor exhibit of boards built upon the old SS headquarters. This was actually our favourite museum of all as it told the story of the Nazi rise to power in a very clear and powerful way, yet was really simple. Lots of photos and detail that made a very moving couple of hours. It was quite a contrast to the Jewish museum that spent so much money and effort trying to make you ...