Berlin! We love you! What a great city, it is full of history and everywhere you go you seem to learn something about what happened in Germany during the war. We visited the Berlin wall which was cool to see and interesting to learn about the history of it. Berlin had the best restaurants we'd been to on the tour and the best part was there was heaps of Asian food! Asian food is near impossible to come across in Europe (we were quick to discover this) so it was such an exciting find - I went nearly 6 weeks without sushi and I had been hoping I would come across it at some point - and the sushi we had for lunch was so delicious! We explored the city, saw some old German cars that have become icons within Germany now and visited the Holocaust Memorial which was created with 2711 slabs of concrete, each different to the next and they made it specifically with a prime number. The idea behind this is that you hear about numbers of people that passed away in bulk - e.g 10 million people died - and it makes it harder to comprehend just how many people actually died. 2711 is a number that individualizes the victims even though its not the official death toll.
That afternoon we wanted to hit the shops so we headed to the train station - to our amazement the train station was in the middle of a shopping complex! I have never seen anything like it! So we had a look around there then caught the train to another area in Berlin that was known for the good shopping. Berlin is full of design and graffiti art works and we saw an awesome sculpture in the middle of a mall that was made out of old car scraps! We then headed back to our hostel and had a beautiful Vietnamese dinner across the road, very convenient! After dinner we went for walk and came across a Ladi 6 poster!! It was so cool seeing a poster of a New Zealand artist in Berlin of all places! We wanted to stay longer in this exciting city but we had to head to our next destination the following day....
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