Cycle the Berlin Wall
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Highlights
- Cycle the Wall - Ride around the West Berlin's Iron Curtain divide
- Potsdam - UNESCO Splendid palaces and gardens of former Prussian royal seat
- Story of the divided city - First-hand account of life in Soviet East Germany
- Story of the fall of the Wall - First-hand account of the events in 1989
- Glienicke Bridge - Visit the 'Bridge of Spies'
- Berlin sites - Hitler's Bunker, the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and Checkpoint Charlie
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Arriving in Berlin, we settle into our hotel and after an initial briefing, there will be the opportunity to head out and enjoy your first taste of the city's restaurants and nightlife. Despite being badly damaged in World War II and broken apart during the Cold War, ...
We start the trip with an exploration of East Berlin and discover what it was like behind the Iron Curtain. Berlin is a bicycle friendly city with many dedicated cycle paths and the bike is a great, flexible way to explore. East Germany (officially the German Democrat...
This morning we start the Berlin Wall Trail, cycling south through the centre to Teltow. The bicycle is the perfect way to travel along our route this week. The Wall was constructed by the GDR, starting from 13 August 1961, ostensibly to protect the fledgling soviet s...
After breakfast we start cycling, firstly along the Teltow Canal, following the disused Stammbahn - Prussia's first railroad built in 1838. Later we see what remains of Checkpoint Bravo, or Drewitz border control, which many West Berliners still associate with hour-lo...
Passing the Bridge of Spies again this morning we reach Wannsee, associated with the notorious conference of 1942 at which the Nazis planned the 'final solution' - the Genocide of all Jews within reach. Wannsee House, site of the conference, is now a Holocaust memoria...
Our final cycle route of the Wall Trail continues near the GDR steel works of Hennigsdorf before taking us south, back into the centre of Berlin. The garden city suburb of Frohnau featured one of Germany's tallest buildings in the Cold War, a microwave radio tower to ...
The trip ends this morning in Berlin after breakfast.
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A fantastic trip
For people interested in WW2, and the Cold War and beyond, this is a fantastic trip. Berlin is also a very interesting city and we could have done with one more day ...
Amazing trip, please continue to offer it
Amazing trip, please continue to offer it, filled in so many gaps of 2nd WW and Cold War. We absolutely loved every day and Bo was superb. Would highly recommend it....
As I hope I have made clear
As I hope I have made clear I thought this was an absolutely amazing trip made all the better by Bo as our leader. I would strongly recommend the trip if you were ru...
Really surprised to find this is a
Really surprised to find this is a one off trip. Really interesting and should be repeated!
This was an absolutely amazing trip
As I hope I have made clear I thought this was an absolutely amazing trip made all the better by Bo as our leader. I would strongly recommend the trip if you were ru...
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