After an exhausting travel day we arrived at our hotel in Berlin and settled in. We had a late dinner and retired for the night. We had a long day scheduled for Tuesday. At 9:00 am we met with Arja, our tour guide, Anita, our driver, and LuLu, the poodle. We spent the day with Arja and learned a lot about Berlin. Its early history, effects of WW2, the Wall, the Reunion (when the wall came down) and the subsequent recovery. A great recap of history. We visited the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, the Berlin Wall, traveled from East Berlin to West Berlin and visited Hitler's bunker. Today we are on our own. ,
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| Our base in Berlin |
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| Brandenburg Gate |
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| Berlin Cathedral |
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| Chancellor Merkel, Linda and Pat (you can't ever tell who you might run into on the streets |
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| Arja giving a history lesson. Bismark statue in the background |
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| at the Reichstag |
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| Hitler's bunker 1945 |
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| Hitler's bunker, today (a parking lot) |
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| UPS is everywhere |
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| battle damage still evident on just about any standing building from the 1940's |
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| Arja, Lulu, Anita |
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| Italian night |
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| Italian pizza in a German restaurant |
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