As I was discussing with my good friend Kyle the other day via chat on the internet how ''Free'' is a great concept. It is especially great when you are a poor college kid spending all your money on traveling. Although free does not always mean quality sometimes it really does. Some people would argue ''The is no such thing as a free lunch.'' which may be true but at least it is a heck of a lot cheaper than the full price lunch.
So why all this talk about freeness? Well it just so happens that Berlin offers a free city walking tour and it was GREAT! The ''no free lunch part'' came at the end when we felt obligated to tip the guide because after all we did not pay for the tour (which was 3 hours and amazing). But still, it was way cheaper than similar activities so hooray there.
Our tour of Berlin was amazing and our guide (an English German, don't ask) really knew his stuff. He drug us all around the city to show us the historical and down right cool sights. According to Bryan, his history was legit. Berlin is a cool city because everything that we saw was modern history with a large part of it occurring during my lifetime. That was way more interesting to me than 1200-year-old ruins.
We saw the Berlin gate, Check-point Charlie, walked across where the death strip was, saw some of the remaining wall, stood on top of Hitler's bunker where he killed himself, saw the new Jewish Holocaust Memorial (very cool), heard escape stories to West Berlin from East Berlin, learned how the fall of the Berlin wall came about and much much more. All and all it was very good. I most definitely recommend the almost free tour of Berlin! :)
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