Later on day 1

Hi there, after a very nice Italian lunch, we wandered around Berlin taking photo's of whatever took our eye. Berlin has an awful lot of fountains. Here is one that may have been an early prototype of the first Bidet.   ;-)

But not to be outdone, just around the corner is....yes another fountain.

Right that's enough of the waterworks for now. Off to the Brandenburg Gate. When Berlin was a walled city, there were five entry points. As the city grew, and ther was no more need for a wall, the rest were demolished, but they preserved this, the grandest of them as a monument, and what a monument it is too.

Below is another view of the Brandenburg Gate, form across the road, where I went to see another landmark in Germany.

Just a few hundred metres away from where I took this photo of the Gate, is one of the most infamous places I know of. It is the place where Himmler, and the rest of the Nazis, gave the orders for the extermination of millions of people, Jews. gypsies, and anyone who generally didn't fit in with the Third Reich's idea of a good Aryan race. It is The Reichstag. I couldn't get any closer as the security guard wouldn't allow it.