The wall....a part of history that occurred during my lifetime. Mind blowing. Saw a great short movie about it that helped fill in some blanks on the history of it for me. Just thinking of that wall dictating so much of one's life. The haves and the have nots, through no fault of their own- just where they happened to be when the wall went up. Hearing Art and Olga talk about it, from their own memories is just shocking. Someone I was with, said something I hadn't thought about: "Many people who tried to escape were late teens and early twenties. They had their whole life in front of them. If someone was 18 years old when it went up, they were 46 when it came down. The prime of their life, their career, them starting a family would have past." We went to the Berlin Wall memorial. It has some of the original wall remaining. It's put up posts where the wall has come down so you could get a perspective. Where we walked was the "Death Strip" because it was the space between the walls. Chances are if you made it over the wall you would be shot by one of the guards before you could make it across the space, or you would step on a land mine.
After that very meaningful morning we headed to museum island and saw some old stuff. :) We went to the Pergamon Museum which has the eighth gate to Babylon reconstructed in it. Half of the museum is being renovated. So in 2019, watch out- it will be even more mind boggling. Then we went to the Neues Museum which had the head of Nefertiti (no picture allowed of her). Saw a few things there but then was on museum overload so we decided to go and take a boat tour.It was a great way to end the day!
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