Berlin - Day two

There is a walking tour of Berlin that we wanted to do which started in Alexanderplatz at 10:30 and we wanted to eat before hand. So we got into town nice and early and walked around looking for a place to get a decent meal. After 20 mins or so I gave up and Jane settled for a Dunkin Donuts muffin. Not quite what we had in mind but it served it's purpose.

We were at the starting point for the tour but no one turned up. So we knew of another starting 30 mins later on the other side of town. By the time we got to that one we had just missed it (d'oh!) but Jane did manage to pick up a brochure for a bike tour of Berlin which started at 4pm... sorted.

That gave us the rest of the morning/mid afternoon to go check out the Olympic Stadium, home of the 1936 Olympics and home ground of the not so mighty Hertha Berlin FC. We have plenty of useless facts to tell you all about the ground but we'll save that for another time. We had lunch there then it was home to get ready for the bike tour.

The tour started around 4 and finished close to 9:30. The guide was the very first American to go to school in Eastern Berlin after the Berlin Wall came down (random but true). He had a great knowledge of everything we saw and the tour included a stop off at a beer garden for a quick bite and beer. We also got to see: Checkpoint Charlie, Hitlers Bunker (the site, as it is now a car park... thanks Russia), the Holocaust Memorial, the Berlin Dome, the French Dome, the Victory Monument, Russia's memorial to their fallen soldiers & of course the Brandenberg Gates. This was the scene of the Hoff standing on the Berlin Wall in 1989 singing Looking for Freedom with that leather jacket with lights on it. Oh and also right near where Wacko Jacko held that baby over the ledge a couple of years back... it also has some serious historical significance but I know the IQ of some of the people reading this so we'll leave it at that.... you know who you are.

By the time we finished we headed back to the room which is where we are right now. Not sure what tomorrow will bring. We need to get to Frankfurt airport by 10:00pm and it looks like we'll catch the train there (about a 4 hour journey). We'll see though. Might catch a plane of there are any cheap flights. Until my next entry... Catch ya later!