A Most Significant Patch of Dirt
Today (Thursday) we spent the whole day touring Berlin. Probably not enough time, but we did our best to see it all. Karen started out with a lovely bath in the elegant bathtub. After breakfast at Starbucks, we headed for the underground to meet up with our prearranged 4-hr walking tour of Berlin. Once you learn how to use the underground in one city you pretty much know how it works in all cities, so we bought our metro pass, jumped on the train and found our meeting place quite easily. Barnaby, an English guy who lives in Berlin, was our tour guide. He turned out to be quite informative and entertaining. We started out on Museum Island and enjoyed the beautiful buildings and stood in the plaza where Hitler gave some of his speeches to thousands of people. Barnaby gave us a great history lesson of Germany during and after the war and then we moved onto Humbolt University buildings. He told us of the distinguished people like Eienstein who st...