Berlin

As I previously stated, I love Berlin. It is such a cool city. Yesterday however, a cold front blew through in the middle of my walking tour and froze everybody out. The strangest thing happened in the beginning of the tour though, we were walking up to one of the museums and this guy approached me, asked me if I was on a train from Paris to BVA airport a few weeks ago, I said yes, he said o.k., I would like to wish you a nice day. He did a little bow and left. I realized after thinking about it that he was sitting diagonally across the row from me on that train. What a small world…I’ve been to Ireland, London, and Amsterdam since then, and I randomly run into somebody in Berlin that was on my train in Paris. And no, he’s not stalking me, he had every opportunity to try to talk to me and he politely wished me a good day and left. He was a very nice, gentleman. Anyways, just proves that you never know who you will bump into. So, last night I attempted to go to the Reichstag Building, which has this sphere that offers a great view of the city. It was over an hour wait, and in the cold (I already couldn’t feel my fingers), so I opted for pretty pictures of the building, and then got my ass up early this morning (7 a.m.) and beat the crowds. I bet the view is prettier at night with all the lights, but I was glad I made it up there. The other two cool monuments were the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe,and then the empty library representing all the books the nazi’s burned. In the pictures it’s hard to see the empty bookshelves, but I did my best.

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