A very early start for us, up at 5.15am, quick breakfast then to join our tour.
Big tour today, Warnemünde is at least 2.5 hours by train away from Berlin so we have 5 hours of train travel and sightseeing in between.
We had to meet for our tour at 6.50 am. We waited for over an hour to board our train which came right to the port. Over 1500 cruise passengers are going to Berlin! They’re gonna need a lot of trains!!
We finally got on the train and settled in for our journey to Berlin. We arrived at 11.30 am.
Our tour guide met us at the train station and we made our way to our coach.
First stop, the Brandenburg Gate.
Next stop, Checkpoint Charlie.
Then we set off again for Potsdam, a town in East Germany. It’s really strange as you drive through the city, you cross various points that were East and others that were West Berlin. Must have been surreal in the day to have this wall all around West Berlin and soviets all around.
I remember when the wall came down in 1990 but I didn’t really understand its significance as I do today. World history is so fascinating, to read about it is one thing, to see these places puts us in the path of history.
In Potsdam we had a three course German lunch and then went to see a palace.
Then we made our way back to Berlin to the train station.
On the way we got a glimpse of a section of the Berlin Wall
So after 2 hours on a bus, what ended up being nearly 6 hours on a train and a few moments of sightseeing we make it back to the ship at 8.30pm. What a huge day!!!
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