5. This is official closing time (5am to 6am) as stated by Federal law. No-one seems to pay any attention to this - crazy nocturnal people.
106 kilometres of Berlin Wall, 3.6 metres high, 302 watchtowers, separating east and west Berlin for 28 years. There is now a double row of cobblestones to mark where it was.
21 seconds to go from 0 to 100km/h in the mostly plastic, official East German sedan, the beautiful Trabant.
410 000 deciduous trees in the city, as well as 174 museums (my pick is the Pergamon which, amongst other gems, holds the Ishtar Gates of Babylon), 200 galleries, 9 500 pubs and restaurants and countless statues and monuments (my pick is the empty-shelved underground library marking the burning of over 20 000 books in 1933).
2 favourite quotes about Berlin: JFK's well-intentioned declaration of solidarity "Ich bin ein Berliner" by which he identified himself as the pictured pastry; and a reference by the mayor of the city's financial status "Arm arbor sexy" - poor but sexy.
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0 to 100 in 21 seconds - whoa, stand back! Marginally faster than the tractor gets with Grandpa Flash behind the wheel and about a billion times faster than a certain red English piece of engineering brilliance that shall remain unnamed (a clue: its category starts with 'L' and rhymes with 'Bemon'). And with a plastic interior, Trev's nose/tongue prints will come off as easy as tarnished coins dipped to Tarn Off.
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