A glorious golden day in Berlin

Berlin is a completely different city to what I imagine it was like not very long ago. Today you get a real sense of 'celebration of life' and freedom to 'be' along with sobering reminders of how vehimently they don't want life to be like ever again. And they don't beat about the bush. You don't see memorials to 'the victims of war' but rather to the "ermordeten Juden", along with brass plaques outside every house of every person who was taken and 'ermordeten'.
We visited the Reichstag, and the Brandenburger Tor, the Tiergarten, and the Berliner Dom Cathedral, then finally the amazing DDR Museum. Even though life was so tough, oppressive, and controlled, I love how they resisted en mass like watching Western TV even though it was illegal and swimming nude just because it wasn't allowed.
We had a beautiful day and the Autumn colours were glorious!

Lunch - Currywurst and fries. Very yum!

Selfie outside the Reichstag

For you Bernie. We will have to get one when you come over!

The Bauhaus cafe

Delicious

Barry makes a new friend

The inspiring Bauhaus in all its modernistic glory

Our hotel

New art in the making

The TV tower in a bright blue sky framed by Autumn leaves

Outside the DDR museum

Inside the DDR museum

View from the Leibknechtbrucke

The Berliner Dom Cathedral

A mix of old and new

Autumn colours

In the Tiergarten looking back at the Brandenburger Tor

The Brandenburger Tor

The Tiergarten

Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas - Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe

I couldn't see the sign for these but they seemed like maybe they were representative of people in East Berlin during the Cold war. Maybe.

A section of the wall, with love locks. Ironic.

Impressive buildings 

I thought these looked very Utopian

Stunning colours in the morning light at the local U station

This one gave us the giggles.

Funky courtyard