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Kinda feels like home?
... curry ketchup and German beer. Off to a good start in Germany, trying the local favorites.
We managed to walk about the city and find some historical buildings (TV tower, Dome Cathedral, Victory tower) and along the way came across a tour boat that took us around some of the main tourist attractions and gave us a bit of history as well which was good on the first day.
The Holocaust memorial is pretty large, and seems kind of sombre with ...
Bore in Berlin
Now onto Berlin and for anyone who was expecting this to be the longest most interesting part of the blog then you will be massively disappointed, There were three highlights to the berlin day, the awesome kebab me and Simone had in the city centre, the train journey out of Berlin and a lovely chat we shared with a Scottish/German couple back at our van about their travels through Asia and Europe.
I wouldn’t want to put anyone off going to Berlin so here is a ...
Rain, Rain Go Away
... up to 1994. Brendan really enjoyed piecing together all the aspects of world history into one big timeline in his mind. At 1pm it was still raining so we thought we would push the walking tour back again to the 3pm departure, remaining optimistic of the sun finally showing up for the day. next we visited the enormous and striking Holocaust Memorial that takes up an entire city block. There is a good exhibition on the Jews experience ...
At the Gemaldegalerie: Old and New Favorites
... unlike anything I had seen before, and I marveled at how well the art was preserved, even in some cases close to 500 years later. When the artist can emphasize themes like the doctrine of salvation through paintings using the emotions on the subjects' faces, colors light and dark, and fine attention to detail, these can speak to you through time and space, language and identity, and instead of seeing the pieces just as "pictures", one has to slow down and ...
Day 68 -- 20 Years and Counting
... anniversary party of Germany’s reunification would be on October 3, so I decided to extend my stay for this occasion. Then earlier on my trip when I was going to a movie in Bremen, I was talking to a woman about my trip. It was then that I learned that the official reunification celebration would be held in Bremen this year. As a matter of custom, the location of the celebration is rotated to a different state each year. It would ...