Wall Fall

So. To report on our 20th Anniversary Fall of the Wall celebrations.

It was dark and wet and 7.30pm by the time we started to make our way down towards the Brandenburg Gate. There were rumours that Bon Jovi was playing, which had Brian nearly beside himself as you can well imagine. We hopped on the S Bahn from Hackescher Markt heading towards Unter den Linden. There had been no real signs of any celebrations around our hood during the day, besides alot of Polizi vans with flashing lights driving around, so we weren’t sure what to expect. The train didn’t stop at Unter (security I guess), so we got out at the next stop and followed the crowd up and out through the very modern Potzdamer Platz train station.

The whole concourse, complete with 10-story ads for Mini Coopers and Jimmy Choo at H&M, and all the way down towards the Brandenburg Gate, was jam packed with people (100,000 of them they say). It was impossible to see anything even on one of the large screens constructed on the side of the street. Most people were under 40 I’d say. It was raining. We could hear what was being said a few miles down the road, but it was all in German, which is still not up there on the list of languages we really, well, understand! I was open to standing around for a while, imagine we could see something and then pretend to everyone how awesome it was to be part of such a historical celebration, but Brian said that if there was no sign of Bon Jovi he really didn’t see the point, plus he really wanted a sausage,  so we decided to cut our losses and head home.

We watched the whole thing on the telly instead. It all looked very exciting indeed.

These snaps were as good as it got!: