Agon Aldea Hotel Berlin

... sure I have ever seen a road that has so many trucks on it, there were hundreds. At about 6.30pm we arrived back in Berlin at our original hotel where it all began! So hard to believe it was only 12 days ago that we all met! For dinner we decided to head ...

... work on it!   We checked in to the hotel and had some dinner, really good 3 course dinner at the hotel. Then walked up the main street of Berlin, some people went to a bar but most of us decided to go to the parliament building which is free to get ...

... of communism and below the big TV tower which was built by Swedish architects so it looks like a giant disco ball! When the Berlin wall went up, all religious symbols were destroyed, crosses etc, and when the sun shines on the disco ball it creates a ...

... was on which is usually a good sign. Sure enough as soon as we left the metro station at Bülowstraße we saw the hotel we were after, the Agon Aldea. So far so good, though it was only 16:15 on the first day so there was till plenty of time for anything ...

... ).  Not a problem in the modern world and after 15 minutes on the internet, I had booked the Hotel Aldea, which was a few stops away on the Berlin underground.  On arrival at the hotel, I was asked the usual questions, name, nationality, ...

Our hotel in Berlin was situated at Wittenberg Platz, just down the street from the major shopping district and a ten minute walk from the Kaiser Wilhelm Church. Tired from our journey in from Krakow, we decided not to venture out to far from the hotel ...

... as the seats and space is tiny compared with the trains we've been getting. Arrived in Schoenefeld, another 'alternative' airport for Berlin to find that local train services were canceled due to engineering work.  After a bit of a gamble of jumping ...

... tour manager Zsofie and said goodbye again. And then there were four…me, Janice, Rod and Michael…we were leaving Berlin for Munich on Friday. So first things first, we needed accommodation for tonight and then the others had to figure out how ...

... the sun reflected on it, and this happened to be the time when churches were forced to have their crosses removed in East Berlin...  Apparently the Russians got around this by advocating that the cross wasn't a cross and that it was a plus sign ...

... lost touch with human reason. We continued on and found parts of the original wall, no longer actually in their original spot. Berlin is currently undergoing a project that a cobblestone strip is being put in where the wall stood. A bit more walking and ...

... have been so good, we headed down to Brandenburg Gate to meet up with the guides and get onto their 3 hour tour of Berlin. It's getting a bit more difficult now with the sunny weather, as it's noticeably hotter here and makes the walking and absorbing of ...

I had a very lazy day at the hotel trying to get healthy and get over my cold…didn't work though! I spent most of the day on the internet waiting to chat with people on Skype and meanwhile trying to update my blog…I know, I’ve fallen ...

... impacts of the Nazi rule. It was on the 13th of August 1961 when the lives of all Germans changed significantly. All around West Berlin, armed military units began the erection of the wall to seal off the city. The wall around Berlin is 155km long, the ...