Leon took this from our upstairs window about a week ago. It's already melted away... but I know there's more on the way
I forgot that I already uploaded my photos from our trip to Berlin this summer - a few of them. Above, Leon and I are standing at the footprint of the former Wall. There are more in my flickr set here.
We went for a long weekend - we took the train and stopped in Dresden along the way. I liked Berlin a lot. It was hip and vibrant and stimulating, and yet so moving for all its history. At the Reichstag, we saw the memorial to the 96 parliament members of the opposition parties killed by the Nazis in 1933. All over the city I saw places where inspired Korean tourists had written "Korea reunification" (in Korean). Leon really liked the Silent Room inside the Brandenburg Gate - he says he wants one built into our future house! We went to a great wine bar, where you paid 1 euro to "rent" a glass, drank what you wanted, then paid what you thought was fair on the way out. And we ate a lot of kebabs, because they are so cheap and good in Berlin.
