Welcome to Berlin!

We arrived in Berlin and went on a four hour bike tour of the city. We saw so much of Berlin, monuments, the wall, etc. The whole time I could not help but think about post war Germany, especially the war. All important structures either needed to repair bullet holes or rebuild all together. Berlin was left in ruins after suffering three wars in a decade. The city is in so many ways a new city, yet in so many ways not. So much was rebuilt based on what was built before, trying to echo the past much like in Germany. The city is in massive amounts of debt, leading to the city slogan "poor but sexy." Berlin seems to then be a quite interesting city. It has so much history but can you really rebuild history?