Berlin Day 7

8:20 AM August 11, 2012

Fell asleep last night and forgot to blog. Oops ;)

Currently sitting on a train to Bacharach via Köln. I love how we got a rail pass and now we've got 1st class seats. It's nice. More on that later.

Yesterday we went on an epic bike tour of East Berlin and the Berlin Wall.
And by epic, I mean getting 15 people following each other on the busy streets of Berlin. Turning left at stop lights and crossing tram tracks is not the business.

Anyway, we biked through and stopped at several places in East Berlin. It's crazy how more than 20 years after the wall came down that there are still parts of East Berlin that are still run down. East Berlin is cheaper than the west. And some parts of the wall are still up and there are markers where the wall used to be. Seeing where the wall was gives you some understanding of the separation between east and west,but not really. You see it, but obviously I won't understand because I didn't live through it.

Biking around Berlin was easier than biking through Potsdam. Berlin is pretty flat and we just biked on hard surfaces; at Potsdam we were biking on dirt and it was soggy from the rain.