Brandenburg gate and checkpoint charlie Germany

Ahhhh so that's check point charlie!!

Yes now just a sentry
box for tourists to visit to mark the spot

I suppose it's because I'm old but I do feel uncomfortale seeing a McDonalds and a souvenir shop right next to it, and I do wonder if all those tourists wondering around really know what went on back in those dark days, I wonder if they know how many young East Germans were shot by their own troops trying to cross over, and how wonderfully PC to have a black and white waxwork soldier on guard

Harvey...I remember the wall and the wall coming down and the struggle people had and yes...is a bit wrong that maccy D's is there

Thanks Griff, it's nice to know some people remember.

Great thank's for sharing this with us.

they are actors dressed as soldiers so people pay to take a photo with them

OK not wax work models Not a job I could do no matter what the pay was

ETA:-
Kind of proves what I was saying. When it was a genuine East/West crossing point there is no way anyone could take photos of anything so what is the point of taking a photograph standing next to an actor with a McDonalds in the background Just my logic at work here I guess

I remember the wall coming down too, and I lived in Germany when I was young, I remember us going on holiday and being little needing the loo, of course we were in middle of nowhere so my mum told me to nip behind a bush- I did but wandered further along than I should and crossing the border to East Germany and got shouted at very loudly by a East German border guard - I was 7
But no I agree seems a bit wrong to have a mac'ds behind that. Paying for photos is the norm these days, also stops idiots damaging stuff.
Great photos though