Berlin

Howdy,

Well today was a fresh -15 degrees in Berlin! It was actually colder than in the south pole today!! We chose to go on a walking tour of the city so were quite layered up and still a bit cold! The guide took us round the famous landmarks and also showed us some of those hidden landmarks that people miss. We saw the royal mile, museum island, checkpoint Charlie, Berlin wall (part of it), we got to see where hitlers office used to be, if any of you have seen valkyre we stood at the building where it was filmed and saw where that final scene actually happened.

We stood on the spot where hitlers bunker was, it was destroyed (after many attempts, it was bomb proof and bit of a hard one to crack!) there is now a carpark on top of it. All that marks the spot is an information sign with a map of the bunker.
By the bunker we stood by the spot where his body lay and was burnt- at his request. Pretty weird to think we stood at the spot where the body of the most evil man in history once lay. Just around the corner of that is the memorial to all the Jews, it's huge! And underneath is a museum for them aswell which we looked at, it's really well done! A really nice tribute to them although sad. They have a website if you wanted to check it out www.stiftung-denkmal.de we saw the hotel adlon where all the stars stay, including michel Jackson, that is when he hung the baby over the balcony! At the moment the israeli prime minister is staying there so the area around is blocked off and the place is swarming with police (most of whom are sleeping!) we went to the Brandenburg Gate, saw where einstin studied, across the road - bebelplatz (the scene of the Nazi book burning), then we went to the Reichstag building and went up thedome on top of it and had a 360 view of Berlin!

We saw lots more and it's been a busy day as you can probably tell!!! Tomorrows suppsed to be colder so we are getting prepared! Maybe legoland and museum island tomorrow......

Xoxo