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Teufelsberg

Among the lesser-known-but-still-cool places recommended to us by Helen, there was Teufelsberg, an abandoned American spy-station built at the beginning of the Cold War. We took the car west out of town and made a hike up to it. Unfortunately, they can't just let people climb over this thing because it is in bad disrepair and apparently there is leftover radioactive junk. So they only open the gate for a couple hours on weekends for chaperoned tours. We made the most of it though: walked around the double-fenced perimeter and found a knoll farther away to get a view of the tower and a great panorama of West Berlin.

It's getting dark, no more pictures... time to say goodbye to Berlin!

Mustache of Ivy

This poor fellow doesn't look comfortable with the encroachment of the climbing plants.

Berlin Zu Fuß

We set off on foot to see Berlin in a day. In addition to Checkpoint Charlie, we managed to visit Brandenburger Tor, the Tiergarten, the Holocaust Denkmal, the Reichstag Building, and an art gallery.

Brandenburger Tor.
There was a guy here stamping your postcards with the official date you passed from east to west Germany.

A statue in the Tiergarten to the memory of Mozart, Beethoven, and Handel (on the other side).
The Jewish Holocaust Memorial is a square block full of these stone obelisks which are perfect for hopping over, but which you are not allowed to hop over.

Didn't want to pay the eight euros to go inside, so had a look around the glass perimeter instead.

Berlin Wall

The next rainy morning, we started our tour of Berlin with Checkpoint Charlie and Die Mauer (the Wall).