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Standing in front of our building, looking down the block on our last evening. - IMG 4639
Our brauerei under the train tracks, site of our last meal. We would have taken you here if you'd come to visit. - IMG 4634
We pack up! - IMG 4631
Another vegetable-based meal, featuring those yellow mushrooms with the unpronounceable German name that were in season. - IMG 4638
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This was one of the three things the owner of the flat had hanging on the wall. Creepy? - IMG 4637
A few memento shots: this place we passed often and occasionally ate in. - IMG_4616.JPG
TV tower at night, from the front door of our apartment building. - IMG_4584.JPG
We stroll through the weekend beer festival along Karl Marx Alley. The trees mask the ugly East German buildings. - IMG_4630.JPG
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Bryan and Leslie in our kitchen. (from Michael's camera) - IMG_4608.JPG
We visit a very cool museum of musical instruments and take this one picture showing how they get that black glossy piano finish. - IMG_4609.JPG
From our windows, I watched (and listened to) three storms roll in. - IMG_4620.JPG
playing on big guns - IMG_4623.JPG
Big tower in honor of Prussian military victories. Pock-marked with bullet holes, like everything 50+ years old in Berlin. - IMG_4624.JPG
Bryan spots an armadillo in a fanciful sculpture. I think there's at least a 50% chance the artist thought it was a mythical creature. - IMG_4593.JPG
We enjoy a ham sandwich. - IMG_4570.JPG
Make-your-own mosaic inside Marienkirche, the second-oldest church in Berlin - IMG_4605.JPG
yes, very free-form - IMG_4603.JPG
lacking a rolling pin... - IMG_4595.JPG
The Soviets' memorial to the victims of the camp. Well, the communist victims anyway. Statues in classic beefy style. - IMG_4621.JPG
whee! - IMG_4628.JPG
Michael builds a memorial to the fallen bees who he slaughtered in his jam as they tried to eat our breakfast. - IMG_4601.JPG
bacon-flavored chips, actually quite good - IMG_4596.JPG
path down to the execution trench. seriously creepy. - IMG_4594.JPG
entering Sachsenhausen concentration camp - IMG_4619.JPG
another night out at the Kunsthaus Tacheles - IMG_4586.JPG
Bryan enjoys our favorite beer of the event, Augustiner hefeweissen from Bavaria. - IMG_4629.JPG
My alphabetized German word list had to be documented before I donated it to Michael. - IMG_4591.JPG
our favorite Creedence cover band