We started off the day with trip into the Sony Centre to upload this website and plan the day but were diverted as one of the train lines were not working due to construction.

we ended up at a station a km or so away and noticed a sign to the Berlin technical museum so we went and paid a visit. they had an large collection of trains boats planes and some cars. they also had a historic brewery on site, but sadly even though it was 10 am they didn’t serve beer.

We then walked down to the Sony centre and had some lunch before heading off on a hunt for the Tribant car tours. it was a bit of a circle on 3 trains and a bit of searching but we found there drop off point. There was no one about so we waited a while and 2 guys eventually turned up one couldn’t understand a word of English and the other barely none but we were able to get a phone number to ring the office to arrange tour. We rang but were booked out for day so we went away sad.

We were close to the big space needle tower so thought we would go up that. it gave some spectacular sites of Berlin and you could really see the difference in architecture between the east and west. We tried out the sky lounge with a Berlin beer watching the sun slowly fade.

We decided to walk down to the Rhietstag Parliament Building and Berlin gate to take a few twilight photos this took about an hour passing through some interesting old areas with a lot of alfresco dining and bars.

The Brandenburg gate looked spectacular at night and we got some great shots. next stop was checkpoint Charlie, but first a few Oktoberfest beers at the pub. Checkpoint Charlie was interesting although it was a reproduction the original one was destroyed in 1989 when the wall came down.

This checkpoint was where world war 3 nearly started between the us and Russia with a stand off between two tanks running and ready to fire at one another for 3 days in 1960 at the height of the Cuban nuclear weapon crisis.

By this time it was about 10:30 so we got a kebab (one of the best we have ever had) and headed back to the hotel which was 3 trains away for a nite cap.