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It wouldn’t be right to go to Berlin and not dedicate time to immerse yourself in its incredible history. The city is overwhelmingly moving in its monuments, memorials, museums and pieces of the past remaining across the city.

We began by visiting the Brandenburg gate, which also happened to be buzzing with Berlin Fashion Week business. We spotted Interview magazine but didn’t linger in the cold long enough to snap any streetstyle.

We then hopped back onto the underground, (a welcome haven from the freezing temperatures above) and ended at the most moving part of our visit, The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. You don’t realize just how vast the memorial is until you step inside, surrounded by the black slabs topped with bright white snow the cold makes it feel even more haunting. I later visited the Jewish Museum and had a similar feeling at Menashe Kadishman's - Shalekhet (Fallen Leaves) installation where thousands of iron faces cover the floor making an agonising sound as you walk amongst them.

We stumbled upon Checkpoint Charlie as the light was fading but it still made for some great pictures, it was strange to see a piece of the past set in the middle of the road, surrounded by shops and strangely right next to a McDonalds - a sign of just how much the city has changed.

And of course the TV Tower was unmissable, a welcome sign that we were heading towards a tram that would get us back to the hotel after a day of getting lost at every opportunity.