Berlin, Berlin. What an intense city. We visited the Berlin Wall (what's left of it) and Checkpoint Charlie. It was amazing to see pieces of history that happened in our lifetime, not centuries ago.
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| Checkpoint Charlie |
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| The stones represent where the wall went. I'm in West Germany, Jason is in East Germany. Hard to believe that when the wall was up we would never have been able to cross. |
Although a little gritty Berlin is really an amazing city. Despite being destroyed and torn apart so many times, it's green and vibrant and friendly. We stayed in a mostly Turkish neighborhood and ate falafel, went to the top of the Reichstag (Parliament), bike toured around the city thanks to bike-friendly city planning, and ate two meals in an amazing Biergarten.
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| Biking around the Reichstag (Parliament) |
One of our favorite parts was right before we left today. We headed for another section of the Berlin Wall that has been covered in amazing murals. Behind it is a "beach club": from the wall to the river is filled with sand. Locals hang out, drink beer, play beach volleyball, soccer, or basketball and relax in hammocks and beach chairs. There were all types of people from all over. The whole idea is peace and reconciliation in bar form. It was such a contrast to Berlin's history and was a nice antidote to some of the places we'd been visiting.
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| Berlin beach club |
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