I meet Kate at the airport in Berlin for a ten day tour of capitals in Eastern Europe – Budapest, Brataslawa & Vienna (capitals of Hungary, Slovakia, Austria). And we start in Berlin, capital of Germany of course., at least since The Wall came down. We have a few hours before the plane to Budapest so we go to … Checkpoint Charlie, the old Cold War crossing between East and West Germany in the Bad Old Days. This is now a tourist attraction, with people dressed in period American Uniforms (your picture with him for 3 Euro) and so forth. Second picture is of me at a preserved section of The Wall. I am facing the eastern side, and a MacDonald’s.