Published on Aug, 2024
Our tour guide, Claudia was phenomenal. Because she lived in West Berlin when the wall came down, her stories were authentic, insightful, and personal. I didn't know what to expect when I booked this tour, and all I had in mind was seeing Checkpoint Charlie. By the end of the tour, I knew there we so much more. I appreciate that Claudia didn't focus her tour on Hitler and WWII. She talked about that, yes, but much of the tour centered around the Wall and the division between East and West Germany--in personal ways.
We visited the Wall, the museum next to it, the Arch, the memorial of those who died next to the arch, CheckPoint Charlie, and ended at the Holocaust Memorial. I'd never heard of the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and found it a beautiful touching way to end. This was by far one of the best tours I took during our European Cruise.