First up some spicy nosh to fuel us for the arty trek ahead.
Then, no visit to Berlin is complete without a trip to the colourful East Side Gallery
At 1316 metres long, the open-air art gallery on the banks of the Spree in Friedrichshain is the longest continuous section of the Berlin Wall still in existence.
Once the wall came down in November 1989, over 100 artists from around the world began painting the East Side Gallery, and it officially opened as an open air gallery on 28 September 1990.
There are more than a hundred paintings on what was the east side of the wall, a lot of which are commenting on the political changes in 1989/90.
Some of the paintings are more famous than others including Birgit Kinders’s Trabant breaking through the wall.
Below is the famous Dmitri Vrubel’s Fraternal Kiss. This is actually titled ‘My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love’ and shows Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German leader Erich Honecker.
Every time I visit there is something new to spot. Definitely one for art and history lovers.