Berlin was very, very cool.
When we arrived, we decided to go straight to Checkpoint Charlie after dumping our bags. We spent a while there reading the exhibition wall about the area. We then went for a massive walk, stopping at Topography of Terror, then another section of the wall near Tiergarten, the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag building and the Holocaust memorial.
On Tuesday the weather was really hot, so we headed for the Berlin Wall memorial and then did little else other than eat ice cream because of the heat.
Obama's visit meant that a lot of stuff was cordoned off on Wednesday so we didn't really want to stay in Berlin. The weather was ridiculously hot (33 degrees) so we decided to head for Stranbadd Wannsee, which is a lake outside the city centre with imported sand from the Baltic to make it into a beach. The only problem was that everyone else in Berlin seemed to have the same idea and we were queuing for a good 30 minutes, glaring at the queue jumpers... Anyway, it was really good even if a bit faffy as we couldn't find changing rooms or a free locker for ages.
On Thursday we couldn't do much because of the heat so we went to the station to get our InterRail reservations sorted for the later part of our trip and then went to the Victory Column. One of the problems we had was that places don't seem to accept card, and we always run out of cash. In the end we only had enough change for Dan to go up the tower - I sat on the steps and read instead. We stopped by Curry 36 for a currywurst in the late afternoon and then headed back for cold showers.
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