'Now let's start at the very beginning, a very good place to start...' when you travel you begin with S and T! Yes, my Canadiennes who inspired this blog and my travels came to visit me in the Fatherland! Here we are in the dome of the Reichstag.
A view Berlin from the Reichstag roof.
The heat was amazing! And it literally felt this 'white'...
So, I shared my love of the sound of breaking glass with Sarah and she found this exhibit and wanted to especially show it to me - what made the temptation worse is that a whole bunch were already broken on the floor! Modern art...go figure!
We went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. I honestly didn't like it when I first saw pics of it...I was like 'come on, we can do better than that...'
But I was honestly happy to have Tara (Art student) and Sarah (politico extraordinaire) to interpret and open my eyes to the potential of the piece...they helped me see the 'genius' in it - 'we' have to interpret it for ourselves...

But they honestly did a fantastic job! The underground of it shows pictures of Jewish families from all throughout Nazi Europe (Greece, Ukraine, Germany, etc.) and showed their lives before, during and after WWII. It was amazing! They even had home videos of one Jewish family from the Netherlands! Then in another room you just sat while individuals' names were named in a very darkened room by voices in German and English and they told you about their fates....it was just amazing at showing the 'individuality' of the Holocaust - 6 million is too hard of a number to grasp, this showed them as individuals. Well worth a visit!
Here are the 'Peace Bears' in Bebelplatz (famous for Nazi bookburnings) in front of Humboldt University. I am standing by the Yankee entry, whilst the British bear is to my left.