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| East Side Gallery |
Angela put on another amazing German breakfast and then kindly drove us to the train station for our train to Berlin.
On arrival, we dropped our bags at the hotel and hopped on the train across to the East Side Gallery to view the Berlin Wall
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| East Side Gallery - there was a football game on nearby so the cars were lined up! |
We then got back on the train to get to the Charlottenburg Palace and walked around the buildings and gardens. So many people use the gardens as their running track or where they walk their dog - such an impressive place to call that your 'normal' area.
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| Charlottenburg Palace - from the front |
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| Charlottenburg Palace, from the back |
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| Spring at Charlottenburg! |
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| Church next to Alexanderplatz |
The next day we headed out for another big walking day - we started at Alexanderplatz.
From there we walked around the streets of Berlin, past so many incredible buildings - such history. We didn't stop to look in any as we had lots on the list to see!
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| ....and some interesting architecture in places! |
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| Just for Camille - there's an entire shop floor devoted to Minis! |
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| 'typical' street :P |
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| Checkpoint Charlie |
We took in some of the sobering sights of Berlin, with Checkpoint Charlie, the site of all the SS buildings that now has a big museum on the area documenting the rise of Hitler.
We walked through Brandenburg gate, Potzdam place, and took a train to the large department store, KaDeWe. Angela told us that we had to check out the food level and it was pretty impressive. A DavidJones food court on a grand scale.
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| Brandenburg Tor |
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| A very strange tourist contraption, everyone cycles and one guy steers - often with jerky motions - very strange! |
We headed back to the hotel for a quiet night to get ready for our flight to Dublin - two weeks in Germany flew by, but we saw so much, we had a fabulous time.
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