Berlin

Nothing can prepare you for what is Berlin. Every 15-20 minutes you find a new view, and I do not mean the picturesque, but the way your perceptions are constantly challenged.
I was not prepared for the level of emotion that would be produced in me from being at the heart of so much resent history. I felt all of the 20th century was here in some form.
It is remarkable how the Germans have come to terms with their place in the history of Europe and confronted it in the last 20 years.
I wanted to visit the Jewish memorials and thought they would be tucked away but no. No other nation would have put a memorial to the Jewish Holocaust in clear site of the Reichstadt and in so doing place the memory of that part in the history of Germany at the heart of every day.