The Berlin wall came down in 1989, Hasselhoff was there and so was I!

The Berlin wall by Checkpoint Charlie. New Years eve 1989. ©Richard Bailey

I guess we are always living through and being a part of history, but there are certain events that you might think, I wish I had been there.

It was the New Year of 1989, the whole world had been watching the news bulletins coming out of Germany. They had started just a few weeks previously when the first reports started to come out of Berlin…