BERLIN - a complete guide to the Wild Wild East

A couple of weeks ago, I took you on a smooth ride across Berlin, Germany's exciting capital, by bus #100. We started at the Alexanderplatz in the east and went westwards all the way to the former main train station Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten.

At the East Side Gallery, on this picture by street artist and wall painter Birgit Kinder you can see a Trabant - aka Trabi - one of two types of cars that were manufactured in the former GDR and everyone in the west made fun of. The Trabi is crashing through a wall - guess which one - and its license plate reads Nov 9, 89 - the date the gates to the west were open and the wall - and finally the GDR - came down. 

In today's post, let's discover what you get to see and experience when you turn east at the Alexanderplatz - and walk right into the heart of the ex-capital of the former GDR - the German Democratic Republic.

You'll see: It's the Wild Wild East!

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