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  • Day 22

    Berlin the Wall tour

    July 25, 2017 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    Snapshot
    Where - Berlin
    Weather - fine and sunny, 24° C
    Steps - 16,450 or 10.4km

    Our first day in Berlin we picked up a 2 day pass for the Hop on hop off bus. Today we chose the tour that deals with the Berlin Wall. It is hard to imagine that this city was divided into East and West and people were still being shot if they tried to escape from the East not even 30 years ago. Thankfully the wall came down in 1989/90 but the reminders are still there. Of course it now becomes a major tourist attraction for the city.

    We also visited the Memorial to the Wall which showed remnants of the wall plus the death zone. Quite sobering.

    The city itself has some beautiful architecture, but everywhere you look there is construction going on. It would be hard to imagine what it would look like with all the scaffolding gone and the streets opened up etc. There are still remnants of buildings that were bombed during World War II in amongst the modern structures.

    It was a long day, plenty of walking, and I dare say the same again tomorrow.
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