Two days in Berlin

This will have to be a quick entry as we have only 12 minutes left of internet time.

This is our second full day in Berlin and so far we've both loved it. It's a very cool city with a laid-back vibe and plenty of friendly people.

Yesterday we took a train out to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, which was an interesting experience. Unfortunately all the museums were closed to we just wandered around the camp and marvelled at all that had gone on there in the past. It was a little sobering.

We then went back into the city and walked around for a while. We found this really weird area where there were numerous grey blocks of stone at various sizes but with no explanation of what it actually was (this morning we learned it was a Jewish holocaust memorial and that the lack of signage was intentional). Later we finally succumbed to a meal of Indian curries followed up by a few cocktails at a weird Incan bar before an early night.

This morning we went on a three hour walking tour of Berlin, which was quite interesting. We walked about five kilometres and saw all the main important areas of the city and we both learnt a lot we didn't know about the city's rather colourful history.

After this we wandered back to a few places we didn't spend much time at on the tour, like the biggest remaining section of the Berlin wall, had some lunch and here we are. Heading back to the hotel for a rest before we head out for the evening.

Gotta go.