First, we walked along Paulstraße to get to the Siegessäule ("Victory Columns"), which was built to commemorate Prussia's victories in the unification wars.
Then we walked east through the Tiergarten, saw the Amazone zu Pferde statues...
...and passed the Soviet War Memorial.
From there we went to the Reichstagsgebäude, and then toward the Brandenburger Tor.
We had seen a place to eat near the Reichstag building, which is where we stopped for lunch: Berlin Pavillon am Reichstag
After lunch, we continued through the gate to Pariser Platz, where a lot of the embassies are...
... and through the Berlin Holocaust Memorial...
...past the spot where the old Anhalter Station (the starting point of many Jewish Holocaust victims' journeys) used to be ...
... and went to the German Story Bunker.
We spent a while in the place Hitler spent his last moments -- there was a lot to take in. When we finished, it was dark out, so again, we stopped at the first place that looked good -- Pizzeria Italia 90 -- and then walked back to the hotel.
Along the way, we passed Wilhelmstrasse 92 -- the site of the 1884 Berlin Conference that divided up Africa among the European powers -- but it was too late in the day for pictures. But it was OK -- we'd packed in enough.
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