On Saturday afternoon from our hotel at Alexanderplatz, we walked through surprisingly uncrowded tourist areas.
Obviously walking makes you thirsty and we are in Berlin...
We were both surprised and impressed by the extent to which the painful history is recognised all over the city.
The Topographie of Terrors and the Holocaust Memorial were particularly moving.
Even the main tourist areas around the Tiergarten, Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag were so much less crowded than London.
We also managed to avoid sausages!
Katie had planned to drag me out for a run on Sunday morning but fortunately it was raining, so we had a huge breakfast instead! The grey skies and rain suited our walk to the East Side Gallery, the world’s largest open air mural strip, a memorial to the fall of the wall.
Utterly drowned, we then moved to the hotel where the bike group were meeting for the official start of the trip. After a quick hello and an upload of the routes onto my Garmin, we left them to do the group lunch and headed off for yet more exploring and a great Vietnamese restaurant.
The sun appeared and we had a great afternoon walking down Bernauer Strasse which was once divided by the Wall.
Apparently on Sundays, the world descends on Mauerpark for flea marketeering, karaoke and chilling. As my dear daughter said, ‘well it’s not Fulham is it’
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