One way to the UK?

Section 4 was Paris, and 5 was Amsterdam okay!

Alright, so from Amsterdam we boarded the Busabout Bus to Berlin, which is where I am currently writing from. The drive to Berlin went quite fast for most of the day, with one main service stop at Marienbraun (spelt wrong), a place which was the old boarder crossing between East and West Germany. We did a quick walk through the old buildings that were used to check inside people’s cars, and under them, and all the names of people passing through etc. The place is a little scary as there are massive light towers everywhere and a big guard tower where snipers would have been positioned.

A little history kick which is interesting to take on-board is that the Berlin Wall only came down in 1989 – when I was already born and living etc. To think people were trapped in a single part of their city and absolutely not allowed to leave is amazing as you would think things like that have not been happening in the last 22 years of my life while Australia was functioning on as normal.

Visiting Berlin you can’t ignore two main things – the Nazi regeime and the Berlin Wall. We went on a walking tour yesterday, and the leader has relatives who were Nazis and he also lived in Berlin when the wall came down, and he himself climbed up onto in on 10 November 1989. It was excellent to have this person as our tour leader as his stories were amazing, he also kept everyone involved by making us answer questions and kept us entertained with jokes along the way. He even recited poetry and sang songs relevant to monuments we were looking at.

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