Ich bin ein Berliner!

Within half a day of being in Berlin we know we're going to love it here. The people are really friendly and the atmosphere is very happy and positive. We walked down to the Batenberg gate (oh OK, the Brandenburg gate) passing a few pieces of the Berlin wall on the way. After realising how cool I was doing the 'east side, west side' hand gestures James decided to have a go himself, it took him a while to work it out.

 

Just the sight of the huge Holocaust memorial is enough to make us both feel emotional, if we hadn't already been thinking about the tragedy that had happened here then we most definitely are now.

A bit of a wander round the city saw us end up at Checkpoint Charlie, the last remaining crossing point between east and west Berlin and another sombre reminder of a city divided although it does make it all the more impressive that Berlin and it's people are so unified now.

All these history lessons make you hungry so we decided it was time to try and find some proper German food (but not currywurst...yet) so to anyone who goes to visit and stays in Prenzlauer Berg we definitely recommend Cafe Prenzlau, and also suggest picking something off the menu at random. Despite seeing the place packed the night before, we had it all to ourselves and even though Christine had to pick out a bit of ham from her strange beef roulade thingy our point and hope strategy worked very well. It helps when the beer is cheap and awesome too (Jarosever - it's top, especially the dunkel. Hehe).

1 day down, 3 to go!