One last time figuring out the public transportation and we headed south to the largest intact section of The Berlin Wall. This is known as the East Gallery. Here over 1.3 kilometers (.8 miles) of The Berlin Wall still stand. Artists from around the world were invited to come and paint their art on the wall. There were lovely sections, and brutally violent parts, and some that we didn’t understand. But seeing the wall in a very long setting gave us a much better understanding of what it must have been like to not just have some short segments of it, but to have half the of large city surrounded by it. This was a very powerful experience. We walked and walked, took photos and pondered. The Wall fell. The city is still in healing. Wow.
We then took the train to the airport, checked in and had a nice lunch in an American-style diner. Then, a quick one-hour flight to Copenhagen. A train “home”. And Berlin was a wrap. What an interesting visit. We were all so glad we went.
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