Thought I´d better do something at least a little cultured and I am quite interested in all this pre-unification stuff so I went down to the DDR (GDR) museum opposite the Berliner Dom. They go right through the history of the DDR from the early sixties to the collapse of the wall at the end of the eighties. There is a diverse collection of items collected from the era, but rather than being locked up in glass cabinets you can pick everything up and look through it, not that it was much use to me. I didn´t realise quite how controlling the state was over people and right up until the late eighties! A bit spooky if you ask me...