City Hotel Ansbach Berlin

... in Europe. It is called KaDeWe. In fact, it is extremely large, with at least five or six floors, when in fact, each floor independently was ridiculously large. Arthur told me that at that department store, they have a different holiday display at the Entrance, but that they change the display every two weeks. After we left the department store (after taking several pictures), we went to the grocery store to get some water for Anna, and some other things for ...

... at the front desk of my hostel, explaining that I couldn't determine if the film I wanted to see was in English because the site was entirely in German, the thin blonde guy who was a character right out of a Bourne Identity movie says, 'Vell vee awr in cherminy'. Berlin is safe, mature and confident. Partiers do so with an air of sophistication and maturity. Although much beer gets consumed and drinking on the streets or in ...

... Andrew and I tagged along. We watched the game on this guy's computer. Sox kicked some Yankee ass. We got home around 5am. Awesome!!! I woke Friday to lots of rain. After mustering eneergy, I went and saw art at the Gemaldegalerie which has 13th to 18th cen art. (not my favorite time period, but some great masters for the style). After that I swung by Dunkin Donuts (couldn't resist) and then went to the Hamburger ...

... ten minutes. I did not think that it was enough time but it was not too bad. We stopped at the Brandenburg gate, (it was pretty cool. I walked under it and it is so beautiful.) and at Checkpoint Charlie. (I got a photo with a soldier and I almost missed the bus getting some souvenirs!) (Sounds like me hey!) After the bus trip we went back to Checkpoint Charlie and went through the museum. It was really interesting but there was not enough time to read everything because we ...

... i was...in the middle of mexico city... a really big EMPTY, UGLY plaza!!!! at least now i knew i was in downtown mexico city, so i started walking around, looking for tape, till i found a girl ON THE STREET sellin tape andd some other odd stuff to be sold on the street...but hey!!! it's mexico, and not just that,...is Mexico's Capital, so u get to see a lot of weird stuff there!!...so after some time walking around, idecided i had what i needed, and looked ...

... hostel...) and we had breakfast and showered, then checked the internet, then went ot the train station to wait for two to three hours before our train came. So we read Harry Potter (me for the second time, Erin for the first) and played some cards, and went to Starbucks and Le Crobag to get a muffin. Then we got on the train, and four hours later we arrived in Frankfurt, where Anke and Connor (my relatives ...

... eat at, Block House. I'm pretty sure it's a franchise type place. We had salads and baked potatoes for lunch. We enjoyed it immensely, almost like being at home. They even had big pepper (can't seem to find anything but pepper *powder* in Europe...I like big ground pepper). The sour cream was a little weird; it seemed to have the butter mixed in it. But either way, it was a great bre

My third day in Berlin, and I decided to go on a walking tour which promised to be a 'behind the scenes' look at the GDR. It wasn't until mid-afternoon, so first I headed out to the Olympic Stadium. I wasn't really super interested in seeing it until I actually got there. Standing on the road leading up to the stadium, it felt immense. It's hard to explain, but you could really feel the history. I bought my ticket and headed through the gates, under ...

... it up, then struggled to figure out how I would actually get here. It's not that I REALLY wanted to see the World Cup, but it's an opportunity that doesn't come along often, and it gave me an excuse to tool around Europe for a couple of weeks. Right now I figure it's about 1:30PM PST on Saturday, which means I've been up for over 24 hours. I started my trip at 9:30 Friday morning, and have been in Berlin for all of ...

... about these tragic events and I was glad to see the Germans ensure people today are reminded of Germanys past. I was also glad to see Fee listening intently to the commentary; she would often shake her head as it detailed some of the Nazi atrocities. One person I hadn't heard of was a man named Erler who tried to assassinate Hitler. Each year on November 8, Hitler would give a speech at the same place in Munich. Erler made a bomb and planted it but ...