Day 18: On top of Berlin

Today I had booked to go to the viewing platform of the TV tower I saw the other day.

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It was a little overcast but the view was still spectacular. The big park in the following picture is where I spent so much of yesterday.

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The church spire in the middle of the following picture is the church at the end of the street where I am staying.

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From there I walked to the DDR museum. It's a very interactive museum of what life was like in East Germany. Really interesting and fun. Next to it were these impressive buildings that form part of museum island ... a concentration of museums on the river.

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All around Berlin at the moment is an exhibition called Diversity Destroyed which commemorates the decline in diversity and culture at the hands of the nazi regime.

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Nearby was this memorial to all those who have died in war. I thought it odd that people were so focused on the sculpture. As good as it was, the space around it moved me more.

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From there I decided to just wander. It wasn't long before I found something for lunch and then this gallery dedicated to the documentation of the atrocities of the nazis ... Topographie Des Terrors. By it was another stretch of the wall.

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From there I decided to keep walking and check out some of the outer areas of Berlin. Autumn is definitely here.

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The walk brought me back to the river which is wider at this point.

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My last stop for the day was the East Side Gallery which is another stretch of the wall that artists have been allowed to use as their canvas.

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And on the other side is currently a photo exhibition (rendered onto the wall) depicting other walls around the world that divide their communities. You don't realize how many there are.

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So once again my feet are sore. I've been walking so much that I've started to get leg cramps. Went to the "chemist" to get some magnesium which should help. Ah, doing everything in a foreign country is interesting. The people are always very nice and usually speak English but I am starting to get sick of being the foreigner.