We walked Berlin for 8 solid hours. We visited the Fassbender and Rausch chocolate stored. They claim to be the largest chocolate store. They have been in business for 150 years. The Titanic, Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate are chocolate. They average 3 to 4 feet wide and 3 feet high.

We started our walking tour with the Reichstag. The final battle for Berlin took place there. The glass bubble has a view of all of Berlin.

We walked over to the Brandenburg Gate. In 1945, the Russians constructed the “Wall” and a tank trench. The Brandenburg Gate was the dividing line between East and West Berlin. In 1989, President Reagan stood at the Gate and said, “Mr. Gorbachev, open these gates”. We also remember him saying, “Tear down this Wall”. In 1989, it happend.

The dividing line between East and West Germany, where the Wall has been taken down, is now represented by two rolls of cobble stones. In the Topography of Terror, the original SS Headquarters, is the preserved remains of the Wall. And, down the street is the famed Check Point Charlie. In this same area was Hitler and Gobel's bunker. All were just buried. On top of the bunkers is now the Memorial to the Murdered Jews.

We went on to visit the Berlin Cathedral and had lunch along the River Spree.

We also visited the Humbolt University. Lenin and Marx both attended here. Einstein taught here before heading to teach at Princeton in 1933. Early in Hitler's rise the book burning took place in the square of the University. The incident was protrayed in Indiana Jones. It is a glass window. Below it is several bookshelves and they are empty. The plaque is a quote from a german jew philosopher 100 years before the book burning. Translated it says when you burn the books you will then burn the people, or close to it.

We will be heading out June 7 to Koblenz. It sets on the Rhine River just northwest of Frankfurt, Germany.