Off to board our ship!

But first we had a bus ride. It was a few hours with some stops along the way. Our first stop was the Glienicke Bridge over the Havel River. The bridge divided East Germany with West Berlin. It was the site of many prisoner/spy exchanges during the Cold War. It was made more famous with the movie “Bridge of Spies” starring Tom Hanks. We got to walk across the bridge like the spies that were exchanged during the Cold War.

We also stopped and walked the grounds of Cecilienhof Palace. This is the site of the Potsdam conference which was from July 17 to August 2, 1945. The most famous attendees were Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin. This conference planned the post World War Two peace agreement.