Walking on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, in the heart of Berlin for example, I am able to tell about everyday life i former Eastern Germany based on my own experience, and about "those days when the Wall came down". A tour to Germany will always be time travelling as well - welcome onboard!

Imagine yourself standing on Alexanderplatz in Berlin and looking upward to the sky high Television Tower. As your tour guide here, I would probably pass around one of my old school books, where this impressive building, depicted in a series of child-friendly comic strips, is celebrated as "a remarkable achievement, clearly showing Socialism's superiority over the Capitalism of the West".

And standing in front of the abandoned ferry terminal at Rostock-Warnemünde, for instance, you may feel the wings of history with greater intensity, when hearing how trapped a person in Eastern Germany could feel at times - especially when you saw the ferry to distant Denmark disappear at the horizon, knowing that you could never get there before the age of 63 ...

I was 10 years old when the Berlin Wall came down, having spent my childhood in GDR up till then. The reunified Germany of the 1990's, with all her schisms continuing, has thereafter become the world of my youth. 

Today, when guiding my guests in Germany's older and newer towns on both sides of the former Iron Curtain, we do not only encounter several layers of history and histories together. I can, in addition, invite my guests to a time travel in Germany's exciting modern history - with myself as a time witness.

Goodbye Lenin - und Willkommen in Deutschland!