The houses in the East looked black cut in half tall and heavy, however close you come to them they remain just a silhouette with no definition or detail. We found two lots of the Berlin Wall still standing, one with graffiti on it. On the west side the whole wall was bright with colored graffiti and there was one it where we could chip away a bit. The lady at the tourist office had suggested that we take a bit of the wall as it had been already sold three times over. We became disheartened by the weather and our whirlwind tour. With our lift in to Berlin we had actually already seen the Brandenburg Gate and other monuments and we were just too tired to walk around any more.
We took a tube to find the burnt out synagogue (which we never did find) but we came above ground by a Turkish restaurant. I craved something spicy so we ate there, a chilly spiced kebab.
Basically in Berlin we just wanted to see what was necessary to see to say we've "done" Berlin, and then get out. We spent about half an hour traveling on the underground coming up at various points. At one intersection where we surfaced there were about 8 police mini vans and the officers were frisking passes by at random up against a fence. Eventually with much use of the public transport we got to a freeway (autobahn) and got a lift all the way to Liepzig with the Swiss Consul to Berlin no less!
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