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August 14th 2014
From Amsterdam we hopped on a train and headed into Germany. The next stop on the strip - Berlin! After a 6 hour train journey we disembarked into Berlin's immense train station. Yes, 'immense'. More like a shopping mall with trains really. We wandered up and down with our bags trying to find a metro train to Potsdamer Platz for quite a while before we relented and went to a woman in the inform ... read more

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As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20t... ... read more

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Kris and Kate

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It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia. Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth.... "Where next?" you might ask. Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam. We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info

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Tara Cloud

Fun beer and sobering history
Great visit and I love your photos of the street art! The statue here is Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture, "Mother with her Dead Son" in the Neue Wache, a memorial to the victims of war and tyranny. Kollwitz is one of my favorite artists and often portrayed the suffering of working people and of war. How wonderful that your walking tour took you there!

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