Then on sunday we hired some bikes and cycled through the Tier Garden, which is the big park in the centre of Berlin which is beautiful, especially as it is autumn.
Brandenburg gate at in the distance
The Reich Stag Building / Parliament Building.
Hitler's bunker is just down the road to the right of this building. It is 12 metres underground and has walls that are 4 metres thick. Apparently it is ceiled off now so now one can get in.
The memorial to the murdered Jewsof Europe or better known as the
Holocaust Memorial
This apparently was not based on a cemetery although it looks like it is. The idea is that when you walk through it is a personal experience. You can hear the voices of others talking and you can't tell where they are coming from, as well as the "maze" kind of effect gives you a feeling of disorientation which the jewish people would have felt being taken away in the middle of the night having no idea where they going.
There are 2711 concrete blocks in this 19000 square metre area arranged in a grid on a sloping field.
The remains of the Berlin Wall
The Belin wall with the exhibition in front of it called the Topography of Terror
A well deserved beer after our walk
Or Russian chocolate for Clare - its a hot chocolate with vodka ; )
Checkpoint Charlie. For those of you that don't know this is the name given by the Allies to the Berlin wall crossing point between West and East Berlin during the Cold war.
Dinner at Zur Letzen Instanz restaurant - we had german dishes like crispy pork belly and calf's liver
In a bar near our hotel for a nightcap! Ok well maybe a few nightcaps : )
Setting out on our bike tour
In the Tier Garten
