An evening in Berlin

I haven't been to Berlin for a long time, Dagmar was there last year..so we enjoyed our time in the biggest german City. Brandeburger Gate, Alex, East Berlin in general...
Thousands of people were at the Brandenburger Gate for the celebration. We were a bit late and there was no chance for us to get closer to the stage. So we walked around to the Reichstag, Main Train Station, Alexander Platz etc.
Was a beautiful trip

30 Jahre Mauerfall - Sternfahrt Berlin

30 years ago, on Novmeber 9th 1989 the Wall came down... a very special day for me and my family. Because without that day, Dagmar and I probably would have never met.
So it came, that Klaus Brinkmann asked me, if I would be interested to join a convoi on November 9th in Berlin, with the Trabant of course.
I immediately applied and made the planning for the trip. Luckily a colleague/friend offered us to stay at their place. So there was no struggle for a overpriced Hotelrooms on that busy weekend.

So we arranged everything to drive with the 26HP, 594ccm Trabant (with a replacement Engine, that now had about 8500km driven in 5 years) via Zwickau to Berlin.
We wanted to make stop in Zwickau, because, that is the place, the Trabant was built. They have a interesting August-Horch-Museum there.

Driving in best weather to Zwickau and then Berlin was fun. It is noisy, yes.. a Radio is not needed, because at speeds above 60km/h you must turn it loud and it is not very nice to listen at that soundmix.

On Nov.8th we already went to the pre-checkin with Klaus at the Hellweg DIY Store near the Ostbahnhof Berlin.
There were already some Trabants from France, all parts of Germany. So we made all the paperwork done and had some nice chats.
We then met a friend/colleague (Bertram) of mine and he showed us some parts of east Berlin. That was a really nice experience.

This Trip to Berlin was aunbelievable, goosebump experience.... People were waving, shouting, smiling ... during the convoi or when we drove on the Autobahn. Many shared their impressions, stories...
That was not the last time we did that with our Trabant :-)
Thanks to Klaus, Lorenz and all the others.
Many many thanks to Lars and Julia, that gave us some nice place to stay.

Here is a link to my Gallery: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Sternfahrt 9.11.19

Our Parking spot in Berlin-Pankow

There was also a TRABI BEER available at the LIDL Stores:

US Achtung Baby style Trabant

Nov. 9th - 100 Trabant, Wartburg, Lada, Barkas etc. showed up

From Switzerland

Klaus, the organisator

The british were there too

The Police Team that escorted us through Berlin

French Trabant

delicious

Dagmar and I starting the ride in our Trabant :-)

The Police blocked the intersections, so that we can all drive across it as a convoi

Reaching the Siegessäule

Photo time at the Siegessäule (Strasse des 17 Juni)

Amazing view

Great Job by the Police

We are part of this convoi and happily together, because the wall came down.

Schloss Bellevue

Border intersection in Berlin - Bornholmer Strasse

A small Video:

East Side Gallery

Arriving back after about 1 1/2 hours at the Hellweg Store

Dressed like a east german Police man

Military Trabant

Wartburg

Wartburg / Police

He drove "topless" :-)

Lada

Some night impressions of the fest activities in Berlin

Brandenburger tor

Reichstag

Berlin East Alexander Platz

We are there :-)

Humbolt Haus

Subway

Nightly parking

Making some "fog" in Berlin in the morning

Bye Bye Berlin

We passed two participants on our way to Stuttgart, this was a Lada

Back home after 1504 km, now the new engine has almost 10000km 

Sleep well Trabant