We finally had free time in the morning and afternoon after spending most of them touring with professor Freeman, Khristen with her walking tour and Carissa from Fat Tire bike tours. The professor’s tours took us to some really cool places that wasn’t really tourist places. Places like the church which the death strip went around. There is now very little of it standing. It blocked the view of patrolling soldiers. Another cool place was Tacheles. Probably the most famous squat in all of Europe. A place where artist gather working together to defend their seven story home and workspace. Graffiti covered the walls, floor and ceiling but among the sprayed paint was art. Paintings, sculptures large and small hand made jewelry. The walking tours took us to historic Berlin. Museums and historical sight was our priority while on that tour. And finally the bike tour. We made up that tour as we went along. We saw monuments dedicated to the wall era. We also visited the really alternative and punk neighborhood of Kreuzberg and one ethnic neighborhood in Berlin while biking. In all we spent 5 hours walking with Khristen, biked about 8 miles with Carissa and I’m willing to bet that Freeman’s tours are not over.
Here is what I have from those.
Marcela Suter, 20, looks at the a chocolate replica of the famous bombed-out church in the window of Fassbender & Rausch in Berlin.
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