berlin

Brandenburg gates

The Berlin wall that stills stands today as a memory

Our New Berlin tour group leader

Check point Charlie

Well we are finally in Berlin after a 7 hour train trip from Stuttgart. Arrived late in the afternoon so we just managed to find a hostel, book in and have some dinner. We also got some flyers from the hostel for different tourist stuff which included a free walking tour. We decided to go on the free tour which started at 11.00 a.m. The tour was fantastic. It took us to some of the most visited and the most important places that form part of the German history. The tour guide "Chris" as pictured above made the tour even more enjoyable. He was really like an actor and was quite funny to explain the rather serious stories of the past.

Once we finished the tour we headed to the TV tower for a look, it is 368 metres tall and the observation deck is 203 metres. This gave us a good look over the city and a bit of perspective on the size of Berlin.

After the tower we went to a part of the Berlin wall which has been preserved for memory and tourists I would imagine. It really makes you know how lucky you are to be brought up in Australia.

Tomorrow or Tuesday we are heading to Dresden for a look, it's just a short trip south of Berlin. We are trying to organise a tour of the Volkswagen factory. This is the factory that makes prestige VW's. The ones that cost about $150000 that Australia does not get. These cars are hand made in a factory purely for them and the factory is only about 4 years old. Apparently it is a day outing kind of like Sea World without the rides. We'll see!!