Berlin

This evening we’ve been peddling for 2 weeks and have finally made it to Berlin !It was supposed to be 55kms, we’ve booked a hotel right in the middle of the city, so no problem !until we reached the bottom of the vast lake system to the south of Potsdam. Right here I asked directions to Potsdam from a worker ( couldn’t see a sign ), and he pointed off to the left. BASTARD ! After 5 kms , some of that time waiting out a shower in McD’s, we realised we were going the wrong wayThese 2 set us on the right path, or should I say paths? There were 3 different routeseeny meeny miny mo! This route we chose was beautiful, all along a lake front,through a motor camp, past water sport camps… that’s Potsdam down the far end of the lakeno it’s not a bridge ! It’s a mural painted on a concrete wall at the end of a pondPotsdam was pretty, big wide streets, trams, and surrounded by lakesWe grabbed a salad each for lunch from an Aldi, and sat and watched the boats come in to the supermarket to stock upThis is the Glienicker bridge now and in 1961 when it was a border post between West Berlin and East Germany. We felt we were now in Berlin but it was still another 25kms to the centreNOW we’re getting closer. The showers didn’t come to much and the forecast is fine for the next week or soOur hotel is about 50 metres from this busy intersection. Once the busiest intersection in Berlin and in 1956 the first traffic lights were installed here ( a policeman manually directed the traffic until then ). The lights were MANUALLY controlled by a person sitting up in this glass box. This is the only remaining control tower in captivityI like the way the bombed out church has been been left among the new high rises. Tomorrow we’re going sightseeing