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Autumn in Berlin
... buildings and sites were ruined in the wars, so the history can be a bit harder to visualize when it's not right in front of your eyes. After our day of walking and learning we were all quite pekish so we found a little traditional German pub and sat down for a bite. Pork knuckle and curried sausages - MMMMMMM. That evening we headed out for a pub crawl with some fellow Busabouters at the hostel - a must do in one of the party capitals! Even on a monday night we had a ...
WWII & meeting up with my cousin
... Third Reich tour of Berlin. Both tours were run through the same tour company and by university trained tour guides. It's been terrific to see Berlin again. It's such an impressive city with a captivating history that the Germans don't hide, despite how horrific theit policy of genocide was. I learnt that I would have been one of the first to die under the Nazi regime because of my epilepsy (even before the Jews) and my family would have been sterolised. Knowing ...
Sachsenhausen/ Berlin Wall
... each of them. Undressing room, gas chambers, delousing room, exam room, incineration room, etc. Outside were about five mass graves where the ashes and sometimes bodies were dumped. Also outside was the trench where they would shoot and hang people. There used to be a building in the same area where they disguised a room as a room for medical examinations. These "medical examinations" were carried out on over 10,000 soviet prisoners. They would be made to undress and ...
Dinner for One and fun for a million
... were a wealth of interesting smalls, sounds and sights. We first noticed it on-line when we saw that the Sylvester celebrations there included a live version of 'Dinner for One', about which more later. There was no chance that we would still be here for that, but we came to have a look anyway. From memory the entry fee for the night was €10 and that included a full programme of entertainment on the main stage.
There was a stall specialising in soup and ...
"Don't be shy, you're in Germany now"
... pool" was for the swimwearers only. Phew... Only we got in there to realise that the only reason they ask you to wear swimwear is to perhaps slightly minimise the chance of people having sex in there. If they weren't doing it for real they were all definitely doing a great impression. We tried to enjoy the salt water and underwater classical music whilst floating but there were numerous couples around us entwined in each other in what was definitely more than ...