Berlin

 

DAY ONE

We arrived in Berlin after a great train trip.  We are travelling on the Euro Rail pass, 1st Class! Buying this first class euro rail pass was a great call as we get a 6 seat spacious booth to ourselves which means we can lie down and sleep most of the way.

By the time we found our Hostel and checked in it was getting on so we decided it would be a good night to do the Berlin Pub Crawl, yes that’s all we have to say about that, not much was remembered but it was great to meet some new people from all over the world and see what Berlin’s night life is like.

DAY TWO

It was a slow start to day two but once we got moving we were away.  We hired bikes and headed out to the East Gallery, which is the longest remaining section of the wall.  We also stopped at Reichstag gebaude.

Reichstag gebaude

Altes Museum

The Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall – Famous Portrait of Soviet leader Brezhnev kissing GDR leader Erich Honecker

From here we headed to Check point Charlie and onto the Tiergarten park where we stopped for a well deserved break.  Berlin’s attractions are very spread out.

   

It all got a bit hard for Mike at one stage – rest time

 

Check Point Charlie

    Tiergarten park

On our way out of the park we stopped at Brandenburger Tor

Holocaust Memorial was our final stop.  Trace could have spent hours there taking photos.

   

 

Below are some photos of some Berlin street art, we really enjoyed looking around the streets.

 

We headed out for an early dinner and then came back to our hostel to pack and get ready for Prague.  It was just luck that we checked our facebook page and discovered that Mark and Tiff (friends from Auckland) had spotted us from there Top deck tour bus while we were on our bikes.  They tried to bang on the windows and catch out attention but were unsuccessful so turned to facebook.  We ended up getting together at a pub and had a few cocktails!

The waiter who took this photo pretended to run away with our camera and then proceeded to take photos of himself too.