Kreuzberg

This is a rather rundown neighbourhood. Main reason for coming here after my boat trip was to see the Jewish Museum.

 And this is the Jewish Museum, designed by the renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. Its certainly an interesting and dramatic building. It is intriguing wandering round it just to see what space you come across next. As an exhibition space, its bloody awful. But then that is fortuitous as the museum doesn't honestly have much in the way of exhibits to see anyway.

A short walk takes you to Checkpoint Charlie. Only the little kiosk remains to show where one travelled from the West to the East. With a bloke standing their to be photographed in uniform and flog memorabilia, mostly hats. Says everything about the communist regime that its only positive legacy is cool looking hats. Marx must be turning in his grave, his life's work turns out could have been better achieved by a milliner.

Note the bullet holes in the Martin-Gropius-Bau.

An unrestored statue from the War, showing just how bad the damage was.

 My final visit of the day was to the Topography of Terror This basically tells the story of the rise and fall of the Nazis. Totally engrossing.