Today we are leaving Berlin but before we do we will head out for a short Broadbent tour of murals (art on buildings) on our way to the East Berlin Gallery – which is a 1km stretch of the Berlin Wall. On the east side of the wall there is continuous street art unfortunately it was fenced in, which affected some of our pics, and on the west side was graphic pictures and stories of refugees who have survived their war stricken countries. We really have no idea how lucky we are to live in a free country not a war zone. The murals on the way were very good and covered some entire buildings.

Packed up and ready to go on our next adventure. We are heading to south east Germany over the next couple of days. First stop Quedlinburg, a little town near the Harz National Park. But first a stop at the Sanssouci Park which was enormous. Its history begins prior to 1744.

Following a myriad of pathways through the gardens are some amazing palaces – Sanssouci Palace with it’s tiered terraces, fountain and statues. There were so many statues on every pillar throughout the garden. Then we walked to Neues Palace (the front of the palace had 50 windows over two levels) and then the Orangeries Palace with its own botanic garden. It took us over 2 hours to take a brisk walk through some of the grounds. DB said it would be great to play hide and seek but you would need to play on bikes and I would need a compass so I didn’t get lost as the paths went off from each point in sometimes 8 different direction.

Then off we go to our new destination Quedlinburg.

We arrived in Quedlinburg and encountered a few language challenges. There was no-one at our accommodation, just a phone number to call. When we called it went to voicemail in deutsche which I did not understand, so we asked a guy who came out of there to call them, which he did. They then came and spoke no English, only took cash which we did not have enough of, so DB went looking for a bank while I tried to pass time with the 4 or 5 deutsche words I know. Was challenging. DB couldn’t find a bank that took our card so I left and found one to use our EFTPOS card. Lucky we had that one as well.Once checked in we headed out for dinner to a local pub. Also no English, lucky menu had english description. I have spoken the most Deutsche today than I had in the last 3 weeks. No internet tonight so I will get an early sleep.