Claire's in the UK!: Berlin

Lunch time on our first day in Berlin.

We went to ALEX where I ordered a flammkuchen which came out looking like a pizza.

https://www.dein-alex.de/dein-alex-berlin-alexanderplatz

Chris enjoying his currywurst

Shopping for shoes at Alexa

http://www.alexacentre.com/

We stayed in the Holiday Inn in Alexanderplatz which was very nice and in a great central location

http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/holiday-inn-berlin-alexanderplatz.en-gb.html

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g187323-d3175711-Reviews-Holiday_Inn_Berlin_Centre_Alexanderplatz-Berlin.html

Yes Chris and I have a tv that pops out from the end of our bed!

Treffpunkt, our first taste of traditional german food

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187323-d1582751-Reviews-Treffpunkt_Berlin-Berlin.html

The sausage section in a supermarket

Looking over the river Spree to the Berliner Dom

On day number two we went on a 4 hour walking tour

http://www.berlinwalks.de/public/index/publictour/secnav/1/id/UrbanBerlin

In Bebelplatz square, where the Nazis had burned all books with Jewish connections.
There is a touching memorial where you look through a pane of glass in the pavement into a room full of empty shelves below ground.

Gendarmenmarkt

Enjoyed Chocolate from Fassbender

https://fassbender-rausch.de/

After walking past checkpoint Charlie we were able to see parts of the Berlin Wall that are still standing.

We never once saw the Nazi Swastika while in Berlin, but at the Nazis occupied this building it would have originally been inside the circle on these gates.