Below: some of our intrepid cyclists.
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| Our Trip to Germany - Final Page | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| On the penultimate day in Germany, we went cycling around Potsdam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We were cycling along what was once called the 'death strip' by the Berlin Wall - above is one of the remnants of the Wall. Below is the Freedom Bridge, where Sharansky, Gary Francis Powers (U2 pilot) and others were exchanged for Soviet spies during the Cold War. During the Cold War, there were platoons of Soviet and US tanks facing each other at each end of the bridge. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Above: Potsdam's famous Dutch Quarter. So called because, um, virtually no Dutch people ever lived there. Below: some of our intrepid cyclists. |
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| The Palace of Sans-Souci (or, 'no worries'), built by Frederick the Great as a sort of German Versailles. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Below: Stalin's 1945 residence during the Potsdam Conference, later turned into the Headquarters of the Soviet Forces and then a KGB prison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Below: Cecelienhof Palace, site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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