Food
The first stop on our food tour was
Scheers Schnitzel where we ate a schnitzel sandwich!
Traditional Wiener Schnitzel is made with veal, but variations using pork, chicken, or turkey are also common. Originally from Milan, also known as Milanesa.
The closest metro to our hotel is
Alexanderplatz
World War 1 lasted
4 years, 1914-1918
The longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall is known as
the East Side Gallery
The curry sausage dish we ate on the second stop of our food tour is known in German as
Currywurst
We lived nearby [this iconic building]
Berlin TV Tower
The spark that ignited World War 1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand—heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in 1914
The Berlin Wall was [how long?]
96 miles
The most famous beer in Berlin is
Berliner Kindl
They're most well known for their Berliner Weisse; a yeasty, cloudy wheat beer. During the 1800s, it was the most popular alcoholic drink in the city, with over 700 breweries. Today, Berliner Kindl is one of the only ones still putting it out, and they have nearly 100% market share of the beer.
We visited this historic government building which is the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany
Reichtag Dome
The Berlin Wall fell [date?]
November 9, 1989
East and West Berliners came together in celebration. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification.
A mural depicting displacement and resistance in Berlin
Berlin Not for Sale (2014)
Designed by the collectives Pappsatt, Memfarado and orangotango.
Beer can be classified into two fundamental types
Ale and Lager
If you touch the three points of the cross with one hand, the whole church will spin on its axis.
World War 2 began when
Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II.
The mural, "The Mortal Kiss" depicts
Erich Honecker (East Germany) and Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union) in a mouth-to-mouth embrace.
East Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a ten-year agreement of mutual support under which East Germany would provide ships, machinery and chemical equipment to the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union would provide fuel and nuclear equipment to East Germany.