Wonderful, wonderful Yorkstraße, Jogging the Berlin Wall, Snackpoint Charlie

Hello from the day of walking (once again, Deutschekeyboard hilarity to ensue).

We woke up, it was lashing rain, the sky was grey. Our hostel overlooks a huge deserted trainyard just on the east side of the wall. I left a chalk mark on the corner lamppost, as requested and made contact with the cutout. The operation was a succ...sorry. Anyway. I for one spent most of the morning in a cold war reverie.

The obvious thing to do, given the weather was to set off on a 4 hour walking tour of berlin. It was actually prettz interesting. We saw all the old buildings, nicely decorated with patched over machinegun fire, walked over a lovely car park built over Hitler`s bunker, and marvelled at some of Albert Speer´s architecture.

Then, we spent the afternoon wandering around berlin, taking in the local and unique charms of Yorkstraße (reached ever so easily - nay accidentally) on the S-Bahn.

We engaged in some hilarious acts of not paying on the train, visited the beautiful Rosa Luxembourg plaz, the remains of the Gestapo HQ, drank Coffee in Cafe Adler (downstairs from the ex CIA hq, and where John Le Carre used to write) visited Checkpoint Charlie (surrounded by Chezkpoint, and Snackpoint Charlie) and took off for home.

Quick note - if you find zourself being buried in Berlin, for godäs sake look after zour grave. They do an odd thing & give zou a ticket if zour grave is loose. A second ticket telling zou to move it, and then thez unceremoniouslz take zour gravestone awaz and dump itin a pile.

Finallz, i fulfilled a minor ambition and jogged along the side of the berlin wall at dusk. (verz poetic)

Also,happz birthdaz to Declan.

peace out, homies.

A.