Prior to starting on our bike trip, we had 3 days in Berlin to explore this beautiful city. Pictured above is the Reichstag, where the German government does their work.
We met the barge in Potsdam, where Sans Souci Park is located. It was here that Frederick the Great built his palaces. Pictured here is the largest building in the park, the extravagant Neues Palais , built between 1763 and 1769, at the end of the Seven Years' War.
We rode our bikes a little further that day and stopped at Cecilienhof, where the Potsdam Conference took place in 1945. This was the conference where Stalin, Churchill (later Clement Atlee) and Truman met to determine how to divide up a war torn Germany.
After a day of riding, we all had dinner together on board our barge, the Mary Lou. This barge had 8 staterooms and a crew of 4. It was captained by Klaas from the Netherlands. His wife, Kora, was with us on this trip and we enjoyed them both very much.
One of the days, we rode through the forests to meet up with the barge. This was one of the more unimproved bike paths on the trip.
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