Exploring West Berlin

My last visitor to Berlin and another opportunity to play tourist. This time we headed very far west - to the Allied Museum and Grunewald Forest. After two ubahns and a bus we made it there.

The Allied Museum is in the former American sector of Berlin during the cold war. The main part of the museum can be found in the old movie theater  and library.

The museum is free of charge and houses artifacts and objects from this time period. The Berlin Airlift during the Soviet blockade of 1948/49 is a central focus.

The open-air exhibition includes the British Hastings TG 503 Airlift plane, the dining car of a French military train, the last guardhouse from Checkpoint Charlie and segments of the Berlin Wall. 

From there we walked to Grunewald park which is a large forest which when the city was divided was the largest in the west. I had been told it was a lovely place to walk though Berlin had recently had major wind storms which made walking a little bit of challenge!

Of course it wouldn't be Germany if it didn't include a beer garden 😊