Our last day as tourists... Tomorrow we head home. We got a good view of Berlin yesterday, both East and West, from a bus. Today we decided to do it on foot. We took the bus down to the Potsdamer Platz and hopped off. We spent several hours at the Documentation Center (the Topographie de Terrors) and read about the history of the Nazi movement from beginning to end. It followed the events up to and including present day. The problems the Berliners faced in the 20's, the developments in the 30's, the events leading up to and including the end results of WWII. It talked about what happened to Berlin after it was divided up and when the wall went up and then was taken down in 1989 and what has happened in the intervening years. We had planned to end the day by 5:00 pm and return to our hotel and make plans for our departure tomorrow. After leaving the Documentation Center we walked over to Checkpoint Charlie, ate lunch, and hopped on the bus for the hotel.
I was looking at the bus schedule and saw where we would have to ride the bus for 1 and 1/2 hours. I had a great plan. We would get off at stop #15 and take a shortcut through the Tiergarten (Municipal Garden). This would save us at least an hour of travel time. Well, we got off the bus and I took a wrong turn and promptly was disorientated (lost). By the time I realized my mistake, we had walked almost back to where we got on the bus to start with. Hankins then took over and led us out of the Tiergarten. What started out to be a 30 minute walk ended up about 2 hours. But, what can I say..it was a walk in the park.
We made it back, got our boarding pass for Delta, and are making plans for tomorrow.
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| Check Point Charlie |
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| Hankins looking for a Rolls Royce SUV , the picture is a 1926 Phaethon (first one) |
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| Tiergarten |
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| Lost in the park |
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| Still lost |
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| 1945 |
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| today |
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| Great place to eat. |
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| Beef liver |
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| Apple Strudel |
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