Germany: Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden




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Itinerary
Germany is the country that keeps rewriting itself, and nowhere shows it like its east. We will start in Berlin, where a walk along Bernauer Strasse and the East Side Gallery tells the story of a city split in two and stitched back together, and where the evenings belong to Kreuzberg and its street food. We will take the S-Bahn out to Potsdam for a morning among the terraced vineyards of Sanssouci and the rooms of Cecilienhof, where the map of post-war Europe was drawn. Then we will head south, gliding through the canals of the Spreewald on a punt boat, the way people here still move between villages.
Saxony will close the trip. Dresden will show us what rebuilding really means, from the Frauenkirche to the treasure rooms of the Green Vault, and on our last full day we will climb to the Bastei, the sandstone bridge above the Elbe that taught German painters how to look at a landscape. Six nights, two bases, no coach and no early-morning transfers, and a group of no more than fifteen. Will you come with us?

Welcome to Berlin
1 night: 1st night: Berlin
Berlin: the adventure starts here
We will meet at our hotel in the late afternoon, then walk out together as the light goes: the Brandenburg Gate, the glass dome of the Reichstag, the long empty field of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Dinner will be in Kreuzberg, at a table where the city’s cooking is Turkish as much as German.
Potsdam: Prussian palaces and the room where the war ended
1 night: 2nd night: Berlin
Sanssouci, the Dutch Quarter and Cecilienhof
Forty minutes on the S-Bahn and we will be in Potsdam. We will spend the morning at Sanssouci, the summer palace Frederick the Great built on six terraces of vines, then walk the red-brick Dutch Quarter and finish at Cecilienhof, the country house where Truman, Stalin and Attlee divided post-war Europe around a round table that is still there.
The Wall, from both sides
1 night: 3rd night: Berlin
A private morning with a local historian
Our morning will belong to a local historian, who will take us privately along Bernauer Strasse, where the Wall ran straight through a residential street, and then into the Stasi Headquarters in Lichtenberg, left exactly as it was in 1989. In the afternoon we will walk the East Side Gallery and cross into Friedrichshain. The evening will be free, because this is Berlin and you will want it that way.
The Spreewald canals, then Dresden
1 night: 4th night: Dresden
A punt boat through a UNESCO biosphere reserve
We will take the regional train to Luebbenau and step onto a Kahn, the flat-bottomed punt that is still how people here reach the next village across a thousand kilometres of canals. Lunch will be Sorbian, which means cucumbers in ways you have not met before. In the afternoon we will carry on to Dresden and spend our first evening in the Neustadt.
Dresden, rebuilt stone by numbered stone
1 night: 5th night: Dresden
The Frauenkirche and the Green Vault
We will walk the Altstadt in the morning: the Frauenkirche, rebuilt from a rubble field with every salvageable stone put back where it came from, the courtyards of the Zwinger, the Semperoper, and the 102-metre porcelain mural of the Fuerstenzug. Then the New Green Vault, where the electors of Saxony kept the objects they could not stop commissioning. The afternoon will be yours on the Bruehl terraces.
The Bastei, above the Elbe
1 night: 6th night: Berlin
The sandstone bridge that shaped German Romantic painting
S-Bahn along the river, then the little Elbe ferry across to Rathen, and up through the pines to the Bastei: a stone bridge thrown between sandstone towers 190 metres above the water, the rock faces below it hollowed out by a medieval castle whose stairways are cut straight into the sandstone. This is the landscape Caspar David Friedrich painted, and from up there you can see why. In the late afternoon we will take the train back to Berlin.
Goodbye Berlin
1 night: Departure
A free morning, then the airport
The morning will be free. Museum Island if you want one more thing, the Mauerpark flea market if it is a Sunday, or simply a long breakfast.
What's included
6 nights in centrally located 4-star hotels, twin and double rooms only
All 6 breakfasts
Welcome dinner in Kreuzberg
Sorbian lunch in the Spreewald
Group dinner in Dresden’s Neustadt
Medical and baggage insurance - (coverage limits by destination country/region - €10,000 Italy, €20,000 Europe, €30,000 World, €50,000 USA/Canada)
What's not included
- Airport transfers
- Meals not indicated in the itinerary
- Everything that is not mentioned in what’s included
Optional activities
The amount to give your Coordinator will be around 210 US dollars. You will hand it over in euros, the currency used on the ground, and any part of it we do not use is always given back to you at the end of the trip. It covers the meals and the smaller entries that are not included.
Lunches and dinners not listed in the itinerary — around $20 to $30 each
Entry to Museum Island on your free morning in Berlin — around $28
Entry to the Albertinum or the Panometer on your free afternoon in Dresden — around $17 to $19
Drinks and coffee stops along the way — around $5 to $8 each
An optional boat trip on the Spree — around $27
Additional info
- Accommodation
4-star hotels, central locations, twin and double rooms only. Travelling solo you will share with someone of the same gender, or you can book a room to yourself.
- Transport
Regional and intercity trains, S-Bahn, trams and one river ferry. No coach, and no transfer day longer than two hours.
- Documents
US, UK, Canadian and Australian passport holders enter Germany visa-free for up to 90 days. ETIAS registration will be required once the system is live, so check before you book flights. No vaccinations required.
- Physical effort
Dynamic. Long walking days in Berlin and Dresden, and on day 6 a 5 km hike with about 200 metres of ascent on stone steps.
- Meeting and goodbyes
We meet at the Berlin hotel on day 1 in the late afternoon, and part there on the morning of day 7.
- Local holidays
On 3 October, Christmas and Easter Monday most museums close. Departures around those dates swap Sanssouci and the Green Vault for outdoor alternatives.
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Why WeRoad
Small groups, on average 11 people
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