Berlin

Berlin is a city alive...there is much construction and restoration work being done and the skyline is full of cranes and buildings with scaffolding erected around them.

We visited the remains of the Berlin Wall that divided the East from the West, also Checkpoint Charlie, the point where people from the West could pass through to visit relatives in the East.

We saw the Brandenburg Gates. During the time the Berlin Wall was constructed the Brandenburg gates were in an area known as no-man's-land because people in the west were not to go past a certain point before the Gates and the Wall was just the other side.

Another interesting place was the Palace of Versailles where the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28th June 1919. Next was a tour of Sanssouci Palace and its surrounding gardens.

Brandenburg Gates in the background.

Some of the remaining Berlin Wall.

Checkpoint Charlie, the only entry into East Berlin between 1962 and 1989.

The Palace of Versailles.

Sanssouci Palace.