Time to put up some of the pictures. Catriona took me around Berlin, for whatever one can see in just a day and a half - the Brandenburg gate, a slab of the Berlin wall, etc....
Quick breakfast:
Going from West to East Berlin:
The Wall:
The oldest traffic light in Germany:
Evening:
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