Corbett`s Travels

2009 will be twenty years since the fall of the Berlin wall and for the most part the end of communism in Europe. At the end of WW2 the west returned to normality yet the hardship for east Berlin and the other half of Europe was only just beginning. It was Winston Churchill who first talked about an Iron curtain descending upon Europe, there was no longer central Europe, it was now only East and West. There is nowhere more poignant to understand this separation than in Berlin. Berlins history is fascinating, sad as well as uplifting. On this trip I hope to learn about the part Berlin played in WW2 and about what is was like to live with the wall separating Berliners, without doubt this visit will wet my appetite for my big adventure to eastern Europe next year.