Berlin: Poor But Sexy

We arrived in Berlin after our relaxing night train and went straight to our hostel to refresh and then explore another city with another Fat Tire Bike Tour!

 

Our tour guide, Charles, took us to all the main sites in Berlin…

including Checkpoint Charlie, a remaining portion of the Berlin wall, and many other historical sites. 

He talked a lot about WWII and explained how the Berlin Wall came to be and how it fell.

 

The Berlin Wall was constructed overnight separating families and people from their jobs and homes. Many of these people were not reunited for 28 years. Now there is a line all around the city showing where the wall used to stand.

We were very surprised by the economy in Berlin. Many of the buildings have still not been rebuilt. To hide all the empty space they wrapped large pictures of buildings around scaffolding. Charles liked to make us guess if buildings were real or fake. During the tour we stopped at an authentic German beer garden.  We were very excited that they had pretzels but disappointed the Germans eat their pretzels with butter and not cheese.

 

On the bike tour we met three girls from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and made plans to meet them the next day.

The next morning, we got up to go meet Sara, Caroline and Aimee, our friends from the bike tour. There was a Cultural Festival going on in Berlin so we all decided to check it out. There were many streets filled with vendors selling food and crafts from every culture.

We tried some new food and shopped around until it was time to get on the train and head to Prague.