16 July
Happy 24th birthday Alistair!
After a bakery run for breakfast we caught the metro train into Berlin centre. We started at the Reichstag building and also walked though the Brandenburg gate. Next we went to the holocaust memorial site, 2711 concrete blocks in an open square. We also went through the underground information centre which had a timeline of the holocaust, excerpts from letters and diaries of Jewish people- sometimes right before they were murdered, and also stories of Jewish families. We visited the topographes des terrors and checkpoint Charlie. After a sombre morning we had hamburgers for lunch. We went to the longest part of the Berlin wall still standing, now the east side gallery with murals covering the wall. Late afternoon we also stopped at the alexanderplatz square. For dinner we had HUGE serves of pork and duck, thank you Chris and Steve for dinner. Later we also made a visit to the microbrewery, Hops and barley.
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