Every time I arrive in a new city, place, island, church, whatever... I wonder were to find the "real" good places. You know, they throw tons of tourist information papers at you at the tourist information counters, but as the word implies, its "tourist" information and not what I am really looking for.
It divided Berlin down the middle. A concrete bulwark that wrote a sad chapter of world history and became a frightful symbol for the divided metropolis. The eastern part of the city was walled up, cut off. In the West, Berliners and visitors from around the world stood on observation towers and gazed over the Wall, while the copious graffiti sought to deprive the gray colossus of its murderous brutality.
