I’ve had a lot of fun putting together this special episode (remember, every ten episodes I like to do something completely different!), and it all harks back to rediscovering some photos from my time in Berlin way back in 1990, when I was fourteen.
I had a lot of fun thinking back on my various trips to Berlin – nearly half a dozen, over the decades – and browsing old travel journals to find some documentation about my experiences.
If I hadn’t had the uncanny luck to be staying in Berlin, as a teenager, on the night when East and West Germany were reunified – well, I literally think my life would have taken a different path. Yes, that trip was THAT influential! Have a listen to the episode and you’ll know more. Enjoy!
Show notes: Episode 260 of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast
Berlin: Travel Bringing History to Life
History, current events and politics are intrinsically interesting, but when you have the chance to travel to the places where important world events have taken place – or be somewhere at the moment something historic actually occurs – then that’s even more impactful. In this special episode, I trace my personal history with the city of Berlin, and how my travel experiences there have brought history to life for me (as well as influencing, well, basically my whole life!).
I start off way back in the 1960s when – no, I wasn’t alive – the Berlin Wall was built, and then move forward to 1990 when I had the immense luck of being in Berlin for the night of reunification, as a fourteen-year-old. Coming all the way from Australia meant that experiencing such a historic moment firsthand impacted me in many ways.
I returned to Berlin several times after 1990, and most recently took my some in 2015, and it’s pretty amazing to track our experiences.
Links:
- News audio extracts from https://archive.org/details/1962-08-16_The_Wall and https://archive.org/details/newsweekonair_891112_complete
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