We arrived in Berlin in the early afternoon and had to again try and find our way to the metro to catch a train to get us closer to our accommodation.After the usual wrong turns and feeling like we were going the wrong way we found our Circus hostel. Wow. We were booked in one of the apartments and it felt more like a hotel room which was a welcomed change from some of the places we had stayed in.

Our first mission was to explore the museum section of Berlin and try and learnt a little butmore about the history of the city and its country. Lucky for us most of its museum's were close together and it was an easy walk around. We went into the Berliner Dom which is an impressive Cathedral. Its just been restored and the artwork inside was amazing. Its crypt was also open to the public so we were able to go down and view the tombs of Germany's royal families. It was huge, their would have had to have been about 40-50 going back to the 1500s.

Next up was the Deutsch history museum, a recent adition to Berlin's museum's which focussed on Germany's history from Byzantine time until now. We arrived about 2 hours before closing and figured that would be plenty of time but we were so wrong! Seeing the size of the floors and detailed descriptions for each era we quickly had to skip over the ancient history and get right to the world wars. Even thenwe only got up to the middle of the second world war before they kicked us out. It was fascinating but you really do need a full day to see it all.

We headed on home and with Berlin being such a multicultural city decided to try some none German food for a change and settled for Mexican. Lucky for Kane a soccer game was on tv in the restaurant and we soon realised it was a Liverpool v local Berlin team being played in Berlin... and we missed it... he had to console himself with the fact that the team didn't actually have any of its stars and probably would have been sold out ages ago.

The following day we headed out to the Brandenburg Gate and got to see where Barrack Obama was going to give his speech the following day as it was being set up. We walked around the Tiergarten and followed the brick line along the road that represents where the Berlin wall used to be. Along the way we would find bits of information about its history with the most telling being a outdoor installation entitled Topography of terror which gave detailed accounts of the atrosities that happed during WW2 and had a large section of the original wall and how it came to be. Finally we went into the Jewish museum with its unusual architecture designed to disorient its vistors to give a feeling of how Jews would have felt during WW2.

Berlin was amazing for its history. In the end we probably got a little bit too much and had brain overload but it was fascinating all the same.