Berlin Wall

Ha! Almost another year has passed without comment. I am rubbish.

My thoughts of today are on the Berlin Wall.

It's 20 years today since the fall of the Berlin wall and although I don't remember the event itself particularly well (I was six at the time and probably more interested in walls made of Lego) I have been interested in learning about the wall in recent years (since I visited Berlin I guess).

During my visit to Berlin in 2006 I was struck by how noticeable the scars of the wall still were, the majority of the wall is now gone but you can really tell where it was. Looking back, the wall was a completely ridiculous thing to have happened, but today is about the fall of it, a city reunified and the scenes of jubilation from 20 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall