I passed through Germany twice on my travels. Firstly, I travelled to Berlin
on an overnight train from Amsterdam. This picture shows a part of the preserved
800m stretch of the Berlin Wall. It is not easy to find - located between Ostbahnhof
station (renamed from Hauptbahnhof again since re-unification) and Warschauer Straße.
Most traces of the wall have disappeared, and Berlin seems to be one large
building site - everywhere you look, there are cranes on the horizon. There seems
to be a conscious effort on the part of the whole city to wipe out any reminders
of partition - it seems a bit of a shame that the Berliners feel it necessary to
wipe away traces of a whole chunk of their history, but as an outsider it is not
really fair to comment. I look forward to returning to Berlin when it is a little
warmer!
