We had a hard time sleeping last night; being 7 hours ahead of Madison meant I was wide awake at 10pm feeling it was 5am and then getting up up every hour wondering what time it until I finally gave in after 3am and slept in until after 8am somehow. We made our way to a couple of coffee shops because one up of coffee wasn’t enough and why not visit two shops? We then went to Bikini Berlin mall next to the zoo. We to Potsdamer Platz and checked out the Mall of Berlin. We saw where Hitlers bunker was and then visited the Memorial Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe (bottom photo). We walked to the Brandenburg Gate which was closed off for News Years celebrations to come (left picture). We walked up the Unter den Linden Blvd until we got to Frederick Stz which is in the Mitte district of Berlin and visited the Ritter Sport and bought chocolate and enjoyed their coffee shop (3rd one for the day). We went to the Galleria Lafayette (another mall). We then walked to Checkpoint Charlie where the wall (right photo) used to be and went to Nazi Documentation Center which is next to The Topography of Terror which is just where the ruins of the old SS bunkers are. We went to dinner in the Winter garden in the KaDaWe which is a hung mall across from the Christmas market. The weather was cold but not bad- no rain or snow makes the walking pretty comfortable. I walked about 9 miles today but had 3 lattes!
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