First thing this morning Darren and I recreated a very short scene from the film Bourne Supremacy. Obviously Darren took lead role of Jason Bourne, while I played the rather smaller part of his colleague Nikki.
In this scene Bourne (Daz) is on a tram travelling towards Alexanderplatz, while Nikki (me) is waiting as agreed under the World Time Clock.
About a second later my phone rings, I answer it then run on to the tram just as the doors are closing, and we both escape from the FBI.
Unfortunately for Daz he does not actually appear in the final edit.
After breakfast we then went on a tour of the sights of Berlin. We stopped at Checkpoint Charlie, the checkpoint between east and west which President Kennedy visited in 1963 and where he famously said 'ich bin ein Berliner'.
We followed in his footsteps at the checkpoint which marked the entry to the American sector of Berlin, and also stood under the sign to show the exit for the sector.
It is all very different to that time now, although another nearby section of the wall has been retained, and there are two very interesting museums to explain way more than I have room to write here.
One surprising fact that I read about the wall was that it was 160 kilometres long and surrounded the whole of the western part of the city.
Walking on we came across our first Buddy Bear. These are life sized statues of bears in various poses that are all across the city. A bear is the symbol of Berlin and apparently there are over 100 of them, but surely this one is the best.
Finally, we started to turn back towards our hotel at the Brandenburg Gate, by far the most crowded area of the day.
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