Hansel und Gretel do Berlin

Sunday morning, we spent 2 hours continuing on with our tour of Berlin.

Brandenburg Gate once the East-West border.

The double stripe of bricks on the road that mark the route of the former Berlin Wall. 

The Holocaust Memorial

Ruins of the bombed out Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

After that we left the city of Berlin and drove out to the quaint village of Potsdam. We visited Frederick the Great’s 18^th Century Garden Park and Bacchalian Palace aptly named “San Souci” which we think means something like “Don’t Worry – Be Happy – Let’s Party.”

 

Tossed down a quick lunch and drove on to the Cecilienhof Palace, scene of the historic Potsdam Conference, where Truman, Churchill and Stalin sealed the fate of Germany and Europe ushering in the Cold War.