Part 4: Berlin (Days 5, 6 and 7)
August 20th 2008 Yes I am aware that Berlin isn't in Eastern Europe either. Well spotted, clever clogs. But in August 1961 it became a divided city where the east and west snarled at each other face to face over a ruthlessly-constructed wall that split families and friends and which drew the Iron Curtain across Europe. What better place to launch into the east from?
A fairly dull half of the six hour journey fr
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