July 1
We climbed aboard our private luxury coach yesterday, leaving Berlin, and headed into the upscale suburb of Potsdam. Our first piece of living history was to the Celienhof Palace, Crown Prince Wilhelm's pad, now a UNESCO museum, in what used to be East Berlin. This is where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met to hammer out the details of the German surrender in WWII, including establishing new country borders.
Lunch, al fresco style, at nearby Wannasee, at Hof Sans Souci, down the street from where the conference was held by the SS to determine how to "dispose of the Jews".
History becomes "real"! Walked the Bridge of Spies along our way to our ship.
2 hours away the MS Allegro, awaited us at Magdeburg.
We climbed aboard our private luxury coach yesterday, leaving Berlin, and headed into the upscale suburb of Potsdam. Our first piece of living history was to the Celienhof Palace, Crown Prince Wilhelm's pad, now a UNESCO museum, in what used to be East Berlin. This is where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met to hammer out the details of the German surrender in WWII, including establishing new country borders.
Lunch, al fresco style, at nearby Wannasee, at Hof Sans Souci, down the street from where the conference was held by the SS to determine how to "dispose of the Jews".
History becomes "real"! Walked the Bridge of Spies along our way to our ship.
2 hours away the MS Allegro, awaited us at Magdeburg.
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