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Travel Blogs from Berlin
Being an account of monuments, music, and bears.
... of guards were also killed from that trigger happiness. Among the civilians was a six year old boy. At what point do you cut your losses and just admit it was a bad idea? Some of the other effects of the wall can still be seen. Our hostel was on the former Eastern (Soviet) side, and even after 22 years we could still see remnats of the split. Neglected looking buildings, empty lots with weeds. Berlin has done a lot of rebuilding, but that kind of past is difficult to ...
The final stop... Berlin
... Freundin sagte uns, sie fände es spannend zu lesen, wie wir uns – nach sooo einer Reise – wieder zurechtfinden (oder auch nicht?) im „normalen“ Leben des deutschen Durchschnittsbürgers. Wir haben uns entschlossen, diese Impulse aufzunehmen. Somit verabschieden wir uns an dieser Stelle nicht von Euch, sondern kündigen eine Blogfortsetzung– unter veränderten Umständen – an. Es wird also Nachschlag ...
Math? On Vacation?
... it had a weird compass that hated us), and doing the math problems wrong because in America a period signifies a decimal. There's a big difference between 49,645 and 49.645. Oops.
It was fun to try to puzzle out anyway!
So we got to Berlin in the afternoon and checked into the same hostel, this time in a double room which was, again, really nice. We made a very important fashion decision for Joy at the ...
Berlin
Monday at mid-day Wade and I caught a train to Berlin. From the main station we made our way to the hostel using the U and S-bahn, but the hostel was really quite close. A fabulous location right near Potsdamer Platz, the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, etc. Coming into Berlin a Canadian who worked at the embassy saw the flags on our bags and talked to us, which was a nice welcome. The hostel is part of a nunnery in a ...