Wonderful, wonderful people!
Don't laugh... We found a Vietnamese restaurant our first night in Berlin!
The next day we took a bicycle tour through the city with Fat Tire Bike Tours. We've cycled with this company in several cities (we try to do a bike tour every place we go) and we had such a great time!
The wall!
Checkpoint Charlie
D at the wall memorial.
One of the few remaining watchtowers at the former site of the wall. Guards would sit in these towers on round-the-clock shifts and shoot anyone they saw within the "no-man zone". Our tour guide explained that there were always two to three men in these at one time, because when they started there was only one man standing guard at a time and many, many soldiers abandoned post and either allowed people to cross or crossed themselves!
Our tour guide explaining the significance of the Murdered Jews of the Holocaust Memorial.
This is a very sobering and thought-provoking memorial.
The Brandenburg Gate
The second day here we came back to the Brandenburg Gate for better photos.
We are always up for new food, and when we saw an ad for an African restaurant called MASSAI we were game! We got plantain dishes, zebra, kudzu, ostrich, and other dishes!
DUNKIN DONUTS IN BERLIN, GERMANY!!! OMG!!!
D and his zebra - DELICIOUS!
All around Berlin you see these small brass plaques on the ground. I didn't know what they were until my friend explained that they have placed a plaque in the last known spot of a former Jewish resident that was taken away during the Holocaust. I cried. The memorial is effective, because they are EVERYWHERE.
Guerrila knitting!
My family has always used the phrase "wunderbar"... It makes me think of my mom. :)
Haha!
Street art!
We had such a great time in Berlin. What a neat city! It's mostly urban with Soviet-style architecture so it isn't necessarily a "pretty" place, but the culture and history more than makes up for any faults. We love it!
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