The train ride to Berlin was not very impressive even though we rode first class (there were more comfortable seats, but the service wasn’t good). We arrived in the evening and got some very good help from the tourist info booth at the train station. Then found our way to the hotel easily enough.<\/p>\n
Today we walked around and saw a few sites. We walked along Unter den Linden (and tried a curryworst – pretty good) to the Brandenburg Tor, then to the Holocaust Memorial which is really interestingly designed so you feel easily lost among the columns and uneven ground, but also small kids and other tourists like to climb on it. We didn’t realize there was an information centre for it, so didn’t go to that, but I would have liked to.<\/p>\n
We wanted to go to Reichstag next but it (and the surrounding area) was cordoned off by Police for the swearing in of the Army. Well, that’s what Svendlemouse was told when he asked a policewoman.<\/p>\n
Next we went to see a remaining part of the Berlin Wall at the Topography of Terror. I think I’m easily emotional right now, so had to be a bit careful about what photos to look closer at, and skimmed a bit to just sit down because of sore feet. I spent most of my time reading and looking at photos of the timeline history of Berlin outside near the section of wall, and at the special exhibit about the trial of A. Eichman.<\/p>\n
Then it was off to Potsdamer Platz were we looked around a bit and had dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The train ride to Berlin was not very impressive even though we rode first class (there were more comfortable seats, but the service wasn’t good). We arrived in the evening and got some very good help from the tourist info … Continue reading