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The Berlin-Spandau Railway Station in Berlin, Germany, is one of the most modern railway station I have seen. My wife and I used the train from Rostock, Germany to Berlin and back. Berlin is only about 236 kilometers from the medieval City of Rostock. This train station is all steel and glass, clean lines and has a high-technology feel to it. Berlin is the capital and the heart of Germany. The Berlin wall is gone but Berlin is still divided: there's a distinct segue from the glitz of the west to shabby East Berlin. It seems now the wall has a new function. The west has a lot of trendy cafe-bars and swift rebuilding has erased nearly all trace of the Wall. It's the suburbs of East Berlin with their gray and decaying apartment blocks, cardboard cars and paucity of telephones that make it apparent that the Wall has a new function, which is to protect a utilitarian East from a decadent West.