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This Summer I took a trip to Berlin. It is a city that has always been on my to do list. I went for two reasons. Here in Berlin was what I feel quite strongly the making of modern Europe, also to see a new city and country that I had heard so much about in history books. I was struck especially by the Brandenburg gate. I felt moved standing looking at the gate realising all the history that had gone on at this place. I also realised that I was seeing it from the East. My mother had gone to Berlin in the 1960s and was not allowed to see this view that I was able to see because of the Wall. But, I did not just want to see the attractions and lets face it the thing that divided a city for so many years you can now buy and put over the fire place a piece of European history. One of things that puzzled me about Berlin was one recurring question. Had the wall actually come down? So I asked. Yes the wall had come down we can see the evidence all around Berlin but there was a feeling that th