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Wed 17 July it’s back to Prague


Me before I discovered the Dinner bill had been processed in A$ so I was about to be whacked twice for foreign exchange charges

 

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Thursday 18 July

Dropped my travel companion at Prague airport As he was heading home from there. 12 days on the road taking in Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.
Schengen zoners now so no borders in place = Real easy travel
And got to see where the ancestors hailed from

Local trains

 

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Thursday 18th
Departing Czechia and heading into Germany



Dresden
All the buildings are now fixed

 

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Dresden

 

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Dresden
Dinner at opera
Unbelievably good and a wonderful sunset

 

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Late night
Summer festival
And even walked past Uluṟu !

 

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Friday 19 July
Dresden
Bundeswehr museum

 

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Sitting on a corner in suburban Dresden

The things you see !

 

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20 July and time to take the rental back to the Avis yard


Bit of a miss at the Wahrhaft Nahrhaft café what with the green coffee. - was just awful
Love this cafe all the same

 

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And now it was a resumption of the long standing last remaining kms of the Berlin Wall trial not finished in 2019. 4 years and 10 months later

So this was the earlier TR

Berlin Wall Trail 2019 - a novel Walk

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FROM Lichtenberg down south to Schönefeld airport was a dubious track like “doesn’t really exist” detours and the like cause it’s outback.

And with forecast weather of 35 C plus just not my thing

However, there’s the track from the canal just south of Berlin (Baumschulenweg) where the Sonnenalle checkpoint was located

Up through Treptower and the Oberbaumstraße bridge, east side gallery onto Engelbrecken and the streets of Berlin to Checkpoint Charlie onto Potsdam platz, Brandenburger gate , up the spree past another former Grenzturm just past Invalidnestrasse and right turn right turn long walk to Nordbahnhof before left turn and back to the starting point on Bernauerstrasse

Still some distance to go
However to do it justice and to best curate all the photos and wall maps etc is a task I believe best undertaken in a new thread once I’m home in Australia mid-September

 

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That 'Australian' restaurant in Dresden must be popular. It was there when we first visited Dresden in 2011.

 

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That 'Australian' restaurant in Dresden must be popular. It was there when we first visited Dresden in 2011.

Yes it was classic

I did wonder if they were gonna re-badge Ayer’s Rock as Uluṟu but that’s probably more complex for them in that location than we might to wishfully think.

A sample of the menu

 

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This was the photo we took as we walked past. It seems the price of Lentil soup has gone up in 13 years.

 

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This was the photo we took as we walked past. It seems the price of Lentil soup has gone up in 13 years.

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And kangaroo goulash soup
Who woulda thought that was a thing ?

 

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20 July later in the day
Harbour and nearby the hotel

 

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21 July
Trains
Schönefeld used to be a bustling station. But now …



adjacent East side Gallery

Old toilet is now a German cuisine fast food palace!

 

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Down near the River Spree

 

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21 July
75th anniversary of the current Bundestag

Impressive display
The fall of the Wall


The consequences of the Wall falling

 

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22 July

Rathaus Schönefeld. Turned out hotel was quite the walk from the station …

Probably needs to be sent Orf for some anger management classes haha



The old trade Union association building. Ended up in east Berlin so yeah not happing thereafter

 

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22 July
Engelbecken. ‘Lake’ located by Heinrich heine checkpoint