Berlin

From Wittenburg we made the short trip to Berlin and arrived with enough of the day left to see some sights. We found our hotel in the former cummunist East Berlin within walking distance of the main attractions in the city center. We walked to the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate. We then had dinner at a sidwalk cafe along the famous Berlin street, Unter den Linden. The next day Captain Kahl wanted some time alone to visit museums at his own pace, so the rest of us took a hop-on-hop-off bus tour of famous places. We saw the Kaiser Wilhelm Church which had been completely destroyed in the war and were amazed at the contemporary church that replaced it. We visited Potsdammer Platz, Checkpoint Charlie, the famous communications tower meant to be a propoganda showpiece for the success of communism, a museum of Nazi cruelty with remnants of the old Berlin Wall, the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, and ended once again at the Brandenburg Gate. So much to see and do in Berlin.