Kerry, Rana, Glen and I organised a weekender to Berlin. Expecting warmer weather, we were a little unprepared for the chilliness but the fascinating city kept our minds off it for the most part. We went on 2 walking tours, an Iron Curtain tour and a Third Reich tour. Both really interesting but the Third Reich tour definitely took the prize. A fantastic city... it was a real shame to have only had 2 days.
Museum Island and the TV Tower in the background
The Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate
The Reichstag Building
Glen and the Brandenburg Gate
The Reichstag Building
The Reichstag Building
In Tiergarten
The Soviet War Memorial
Kerry at the Soviet War Memorial
The Soviet War Memorial
The Victory Column (or "Chick on a Stick")
In Tiergarten
The Victory Column
View from the Victory Column
In Tiergarten
In Tiergarten
A walk through the "lamp museum" (really!)
In Tiergarten
The elephant obsessio continues
The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church)
On the Iron Curtain tour (an old border control building & part of the wall)
Berlin graffiti
A remnant of the squatters movement
"Squatter art"
Museum Island
Inside Humboldt University
Inside Humboldt University
An amusing ad
Standing by a section of the Berlin Wall still standing
Entering the American Sector near Checkpoint Charlie
The former site of Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint in the American Sector
The wall is marked by pavers where the wall is no longer standing
One foot in the East and one in the West
Glen and Kerry
Rana and me
On the Third Reich walking tour (a memorial)
The German Resistance Memorial Centre - Hitler stood here
The German Resistance Memorial Centre
A Berlin Wall watch tower
Topography of Terror - The site of Third Reich plotting
A section of the Berlin Wall
The Topography of Terror
Fuehrerbunker. Hitler's underground hideout.
Our guide, Nigel, talks to us about the Jewish Memorial
The Jewish Memorial
The Jewish Memorial