Back to the 80s Part 1

Well, as suspected, Berlin was a little (but good) brainstorming and a lot sightseeing. I arrived at about 9pm and we immediately went out for a walk. Weird, I know, but strolling through the dark shadowy streets of east Berlin to the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie and the line of cobbles that traces the Wall was spine-tingling. George Smiley, Harry Palmer, Kim Philby... Easy to imagine them all. Harder to believe that it was only 20 years ago that the city was so divided.

We found ourselves at The Holocaust Memorial at about midnight. From the outside it looks like a series of horizontal slabs on a hill. When you go in, the ground dips and the slabs become vertical. As you weave through the maze of paths you catch flashes of other people doing the same. It's one of the most incredible places I've ever been to.