Berlin Day 2       Thursday

Okay, after enjoying a beautiful day on Wednesday, our hearts sank this morning as we looked out of our 18th floor window and saw........Rain !.  But being the positive types we donned our jackets and Ber packed her Fashion Accessory a.k.a. The Brolly. Boy did it rain!, we had to content ourselves with the possibility of a day of window shopping. It actually seemed to be getting heavier the further Downtown we went. We went towards Friedrichstrasse, which is one of the main shopping streets on the East side and which was one of the crossing areas from East to West when such crossings were allowed. We dodged the drops to make our way to Checkpoint Charlie and discovered that the Holocaust memorial was very near to that.

As we surveyed a myriad of sculpted blocks here, the rain stopped and the sun began to show.  We went around a corner from this and discovered remnants of  'the Wall'. In between snacks we made our way to the Brandenberg Gate and along the Strasse des 17Juni, on either side of this broad and beautiful road was the Tiergarten.

A Vast Green Belt. We eventually arrived at Charlotteburg, the heart of the West side.  I don't think we realised how far we had walked, though our feet did. We used day 2 of our Discover Berlin Bus passes to do an evacuation to Alexanderplatz and our Hotel room. 

What a day.