At the hotel they have a New Europe pickup for a ‘free’ walking tour of Berlin. The tour gives an overview of city with alot of emphasis on the wars.
It started at the Brandenburg Gate, continued past some of the memorials to the murdered people from WWII with the Jewish one being the main focus and the most strange.
We also walked past the Parliment house and the Old Nazi Air Force building, which is now the Tax Office, so people still hate it.
Towards the end of the tour we went past Check Point Charlie, the most tense spot during the coldwar in Berlin. Could also see where the Soviets built the wall 1m behind the border so the allies couldn’t do anything about it.
Now I said it was a ‘free’ tour because technically it is but the tour guides actually run on tips so its not totally free, but I enjoyed it so I didn’t mind paying.
Later that night I would catchup with Christine from my Tibet tour to catch a beer and go to a little US film Festival where we saw Foxcatcher, which was a great movie with Steve Carrel, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo. We went to a bar afterwards and I forgot that Germany still doesn’t have any laws for smoking in bars, something hard to get used to with clothes stinking of smoke for a few days afterwards.
Day 73
Saturday I slept in as they serve late breakfast and underground bunker I wanted to see wasn’t till 1pm. The options were a WWII public bunker or a Cold War era bunker. I choose the WWII bunker which I didn’t find out until I was there that you can’t take photos.
They did have some rooms painted in toxic glow in the dark paint that with a camera flash left shadows on the walls like in Ironman 3. Very creepy place since it was built above a subway station that you can hear the rumbling trains.
That night we went to out to Santa Maria for Mexican food and the a few drinks at a ‘proper’ German bar with electronic music as usual.
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