Berlin

I've been to Berlin on my own before, and always wanted to go with Stewart and the kids because I thought they'd love it.  They did.  We stayed three days in a great little apartment in the old East Berlin, a real little neighbourhood with stores and bars and everything and right on the tram line to downtown.  The kids were absolutely fascinated by the Wall and we ended up spending most of our first day there talking about the Wall and going to the Checkpoint Charlie museum as well as travelling round the city by tram to some of the bits of Wall that have been left up as monuments.  The kids were fascinated, and Joe astounded that some countries are still putting up walls.

Here are some Wall photos:

We did see some other sights as well.....

At the Brandenburg Gate

 At the Reichstag.  Unfortunately we didn't reserve early enough to go for a tour.

 Playing in the Tiergarten

We came across this (not great) American style diner call Andy's.  Andy was thrilled and we ended up having lunch there - he was very happy!