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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

BERLIN - Holocaust Memorial showing cracks

Just five years after it opened, Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial is already suffering from cracks in its concrete slabs, it was revealed recently.

  As we explain on our mp3 tour of Berlin, the memorial was designed by an American, Peter Eisenmann.  Some people believe that the vast concrete slabs resemble coffins while others suggest that the endless paths around them symbolise the confusion experienced by Jews during the rounds up and the Final Solution.  Eisenmann got the idea from when, as a boy, he got lost in a cornfield.

  Powerful and bleak it might be but it's also proved controversial - some people believe that it's too big, too prominent.  Even the leader of the city's Jewish community has criticised it for being too impersonal.  Neo-Nazis have defaced it and some Berliners have even been caught sunbathing on these blocks - a few of the women topless.

  If you want to learn more about the Jews of Berlin and Germany and their daily lives then the new Jewish Museum in the Kreuzberg area is certainly worth a visit.  Did you know, for instance, how Jewish people originally arrived in Europe from their ancient homeland in the Middle East?  They came with the Romans and spread throughout Europe trading and doing business with the Roman army and other early European tribes.  There's plenty more of that in the museum.

  Near the Holocaust Memorial is a playground and a car park.  Lurking beneath this unassuming plot of land is one of the most infamous sites in Berlin - Hitler's bunker.  Efforts were made to destroy it just after the war to prevent it being glorified by modern day Nazi sympathisers but in the end it proved so well built that it was decided just to bury it.  No one knows for certain where exactly the entrance is – and that’s probably a good thing.



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