Didn’t expect a week in Berlin to be that interesting but it’s a fascinating place to go. The Motorbike Museum oddly only covers MZ’s . . . not a BMW in sight.
A part of the wall has been turned into an outdoor art gallery at the East Side Gallery . . . artists can take space for a while and make their mark. It’s a great idea and could be great in London too.
Jewish memorial is very strange, just a number of grey, concrete blocks.
First bike’s a Jawa CZ 350, dunno about pics 2 & 4 but they don’t look like any MZ I’ve seen before, possibly a Warsaw-Pact motorcycle museum rather than purely an MZ one ?
Sorry, yep, there were a couple of Jawa’s there (didn’t think I’d got a photo of those) but the rest were almost all MZ’s, even the mopeds. There was even an MZ with a boxer engine. There was an IFA too but IFA and MZ were brands of DKW I think which were part of Auto Union with Audi and Horch.
Good pics Steve. What is the spooky building in no 6?
Yeah Steve 
That’s an old building in Pankow which was in the Russian sector after the war, former East Berlin. Not sure what it used to be, probably a block of flats. Eastern Berlin has lots of buildings like that, most of the older ones have been or are being pulled down or renovated - that one still looked to me how it might have looked in the 60’s. Frightening eh ?
Really fascinating place, will be going back next year. Food is reasonably good too in Germany ;)
Thanks for the explanation. We were hoping it wasn’t your hotel:P
I went there in 2000 for a week on a work trip, attended a conference at the ICC. It was a great week and I loved Berlin, as you say fascinating. I stayed in a new hotel in what was East Berlin, very nice place with friendly staff and I got to go to a rooftop drinks reception at the Reichstag Parliament Building. We spent the Sunday before the conference started wandering about the city so got to see the Brandenburg Gate, The Victory Column, Checkpoint Charlie and the nearby museum, which was quite incredible. Had a wander around Unter den Linden where the German History museum and a lot of the university buildings are, some impressive architecture in that area.
I met a girl, friend of a friend, at the Oktoberfest this year who lives in Berlin so I hope to go and visit at some point and get a bit of a tour and see more of the city that I missed in 2000. 
No, we stayed here: http://www.kempinski-berlin.de/ Bike parking at the rear if you wanted it 
It does take a while to see things, there’s so much to it. I guess people must say that about London but I’ve never investigated London like I have foreign cities.
Nice pics - would love to go to Berlin - interested in all that bohemian pre-post war culture it gave rise to.
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I went to Berlin with BMW when MINI launched the Clubman, it wasnt what i was expecting at all! what a great city… i’d love to go back…
They took us to an old soviet air field north of berlin, it was one of the eariest places ive ever been…
