there s no recollection of those news events, so being able to be here and just get a sense of what it might have been like feels quite special. by 1989, the berlin wall had forcibly divided the city for 28 years with the communists controlling the eastern part of the city whilst the capitalist west controlled the rest of berlin. travel between the two was strictly controlled and, in most cases, forbidden. but i m heading down into the u bahn, berlin s underground rail network, which i can access with the deutschlandticket. 0k, u8 this way. ooh! now, alexanderplatz was in the east, so anybody getting on the u bahn three stops in that direction had
engineering and a bit of imagination have led to a network like no other. and if the deutschlandticket brings more people here to see it for themselves, that can only be a good thing. fabian, los geht s! good morning.
no, that s not ours. oh! oh, so we have. i have missed it. we ve missed it. it s also quite fiddly to buy. you need to subscribe to a deutschlandticket, which means a monthly direct debit. door beeps so, if you re only here for a couple of weeks, you need to remember to cancel that as soon as your trip s over otherwise, you continue paying after you ve headed home. my next stop is in the west of the country, not far from the industrial giants that have made this part of the world such an economic force. so, this is wuppertal. it s sandwiched between the two powerhouses of cologne and dortmund. it s much smaller in comparison but it does have one thing going for it that s made it world famous, and it s right there!
deutschlandticket for this, but the big restriction is that you can t use it on the high speed trains, so it ll take probably twice the amount of time to actually travel around. you do need a bit of patience for this. you can buy a more expensive ticket and travel direct, but the cut price method means changing trains five times. so, i may have missed this one. wait, it s also late! so, that means that i ll be fine. add to that the uncharacteristic delays and disruption that have dogged the german railway network in recent times, you ll need to leave plenty of time to make your connections. five minutes delay that means we re good, right? no, that s not ours. 0h! oh, so we have. i have missed it. we ve missed it.
and they will go back to their hometown and they will tell, well, we had a really good day in wuppertal. i m using the deutschlandticket to head north now, out of germany s cities and to its coast. train horn blares in the summer, the trains up here get busy with beach lovers but the sunshine and crowds have thinned a little by the time i arrive. oh, wow, 0k very, very windy, and this is schleswig holstein, in the north west of germany. any further north and i ll be arriving in denmark.