b'23rd OctoberToday was mainly taken up with travelling! We arrived in Berlin and boarded a coachICH BIN EIN to the hotel. After dropping our bags off we went to the very conveniently located Greek restaurant that was next door to the hotel. BERLINER!Tired after all that travellingand got to be up early!Gute nacht24th OctoberToday was a walking tour of Berlin. First stop Potsdamer Guten morgen!Platztotally destroyed during WW2 and now full of modern skyscrapers. There are still parts of the BerlinOur last full day in Berlin! We visited the Olympiastadion, Wall and a cobblestone trail where the Wall used to25th Octoberbe. We crossed into what used to be East Berlin andwhich was built for the 1936 Olympic Games. It there was a noticeable difference.We saw where Hitlerhad retained its original outer ring of stone but been committed suicide at the site of his former undergroundtransformed on the inside into a modern 74,475 capacity bunker and visited the Brandenburg Gate and thestadium and used for athletic events, concerts and Hertha Reichstag. We then boarded a boat which took us alongBerlin FC. We toured the facilities including the changing the River Spree and it was really interesting to see therooms and the first-class lounges where the press many different sights of Berlin, old and new. conferences are held, and saw first-hand where Hitler had After lunch we went to see the largest remainingstood to open the 1936 Olympics.section of the Berlin Wall and found out how the WallNext was Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in had separated communities, and that people had diedOranienburg. It was used primarily for political prisoners, trying to cross from East to West. The DDR Museumbut in its later life for Jews, Poles and Jehovahs Witnesses showcases what life was like for East Germans under 30,000 died here before it was liberated in 1945 by the Communist rule. It showed us how difficult it was toPolish army. The visit was very thought-provoking and our live there with freedom of speech abolished and onlyguide explained how the Third Reich brutally treated and one type of car availablethe Trabant!We exploredmurdered so many innocent men, women and children Alexanderplatz before going for our evening meal and awho had done nothing wrong apart from being born in the game of bowling. wrong place or to the wrong family, or who did not accept Sehr tiring! Guten abend. Finally we went to the Berlin Science MuseumDeutsches Technikmuseum and looked at the different scientific the ideals of the Nazi Party.exhibits as well as the plane, train and automobile collections on show which were very interesting.Auf wiedersehen!24'