day+6+-+29th+June

cycling
 sailing on Wannsee!

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Today we went to the **zoo** and almost left a few of our pupils behind in the monkey enclosure!!! **Berlin zoo** is right in the middle of the city and is of course home to the famous polar bear - **Knut**. It is the oldest zoo in Germany and has the largest number of species in the world. The sun shone and we had a lovely and very relaxing couple of hours wandering around looking at the animals and of course, learning their names in German!!=====

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We then went to KaDeWe (Kaufhaus des Westens) - the biggest department store in Europe - and we explored this amazing shop which is like Harrod's. We were told not to buy anything but it was fun just looking. After this we did some shopping in the more 'normal' shops in the area around the Europa Centre and we had our lunch.=====

Good Times! **
 * We busked on the streets! We did not get any money but some random woman took a picture of us! (she must have thought we were freaks, or was just helping us on our way to stardom!) Theo kept on walking past and dropping in money then picking it back up again! We told our partners and they didn't find it funny, they found it embarrassing! (I can't think why?????)

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In the afternoon we went to the Story of Berlin Exhibition where we learned lots about Berlin during the 1930s, the second World War, the Airlift, the Berlin Wall and the Cold War. We also visited a bunker under the city which was constructed in the 1970s to protect people from a nuclear attack.=====