tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43299246417152391332024-03-19T05:22:23.852+08:00 chai by the fjordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1811125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-19271434897145582422024-03-18T19:00:00.026+08:002024-03-18T19:00:00.145+08:00Leipzig day 3 – of Jugendstil and cakes<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>originally written <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">March 10th</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ccf6eea1-7fff-9d4c-45a7-380fdc64ce71"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had breakfast at Riquet. The place is just really cute. This time we sat upstairs, so we could enjoy better the details of the buildings around us. And we had a croque madame, some coffee (with chocolate!) and, so I wouldn’t regret not having a final bite, a Lerche! Nom nom.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GKSCR_gQwNf_BvAwQ9WZxv8HgdcSEPvbFqp_sIFzembJ_tOoih2tdnItH6rNeC0J-tKFgeQEDOwlDPRj6pX8OIIFUcM9glL4m-l-lsvsHoNpSzGkfRU7aO5gblFjQnWc1zFx9jGmX-5nuEnfn0HSSLUe0Oi5tnJBUS1QJ-rkkeDrXezAoMCURXbhuGRg/s4032/IMG_0857.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-GKSCR_gQwNf_BvAwQ9WZxv8HgdcSEPvbFqp_sIFzembJ_tOoih2tdnItH6rNeC0J-tKFgeQEDOwlDPRj6pX8OIIFUcM9glL4m-l-lsvsHoNpSzGkfRU7aO5gblFjQnWc1zFx9jGmX-5nuEnfn0HSSLUe0Oi5tnJBUS1QJ-rkkeDrXezAoMCURXbhuGRg/w400-h300/IMG_0857.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE-SptkIo47EhXU9YoACEWg2jSEZvh0p_ivixcTJc0g9FbBdqIT_epbQu_pFRkesiJjHGDhpwwgYEOOWPagmLR_XA9clNO_EGi3dEQuMv8nb-B-YqIoJsk4urXIQqQZ8DmgLDMxXu3IeXacsqaViY-vuPRseU1kKa8LLzgphBmmXn1Adfm4g3hEaNgCD1/s4032/IMG_0858.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE-SptkIo47EhXU9YoACEWg2jSEZvh0p_ivixcTJc0g9FbBdqIT_epbQu_pFRkesiJjHGDhpwwgYEOOWPagmLR_XA9clNO_EGi3dEQuMv8nb-B-YqIoJsk4urXIQqQZ8DmgLDMxXu3IeXacsqaViY-vuPRseU1kKa8LLzgphBmmXn1Adfm4g3hEaNgCD1/w400-h300/IMG_0858.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then we headed to the museum for the day: the Grassi Museum for Applied Arts. The building is truly peculiar, with Art Déco details in part of the façade (and in a turret at the top), as well as in the windows and lamps. A really nice surprise. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, though we explored quite a bit of the museum, through antiquity and Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque art, our main goal was the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) section. Though for that we had to cross an oriental art part which had some gorgeous Ching Dynasty vases and some contemporary Jingdezhen ceramic portraits of Arhats. Nice! </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholnjkS_uEsL-F6yCPilFEmX0o0e9W12LVJ7vd1qrT56A1L1YqSOmi5O-c3bcDptHZQs_H5MDOR4uTnkKYm6-je4wg2CJ7bG8E9BE77ssAdIo-Y28Ce0STW9fAt-UQfCNanONqcskFFI7xkRlOGGrYGIeb0hlki7Aow7Da-1cSIHmk51fFQHVJYBGOuSng/s4032/IMG_0862.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEholnjkS_uEsL-F6yCPilFEmX0o0e9W12LVJ7vd1qrT56A1L1YqSOmi5O-c3bcDptHZQs_H5MDOR4uTnkKYm6-je4wg2CJ7bG8E9BE77ssAdIo-Y28Ce0STW9fAt-UQfCNanONqcskFFI7xkRlOGGrYGIeb0hlki7Aow7Da-1cSIHmk51fFQHVJYBGOuSng/w400-h300/IMG_0862.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEjbAEYHWdmp-KnXe4gRrtIJeAdEVKFbtFsTpRh8JqpyxdSFzToo0ehCZsPYMRdMrHi089pCJW0-4DTSwiBp5zqNAuQuNZz3Ra-jS7lSFuazYUANJgwm4l_PVBmb1kLQSTaa07atRVZgDN5cVQj6KkKwG4N86Vj1jgC11UW3NNlv7KZC_9DaYd8zeSdY3b/s4032/IMG_0863.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEjbAEYHWdmp-KnXe4gRrtIJeAdEVKFbtFsTpRh8JqpyxdSFzToo0ehCZsPYMRdMrHi089pCJW0-4DTSwiBp5zqNAuQuNZz3Ra-jS7lSFuazYUANJgwm4l_PVBmb1kLQSTaa07atRVZgDN5cVQj6KkKwG4N86Vj1jgC11UW3NNlv7KZC_9DaYd8zeSdY3b/w400-h300/IMG_0863.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMF9lPEESkRILjhyYCBu8HATYsdQL9PWHzxbNcmXlONpfK2hxcIkDKN_XYv99aqa2-OtEdTo2tExVbiz65QsJ4czz0kthlErQb-Wxsx7aO7zwcWss2JKW7OPsc9kntPHis3WjcyTsda5_XYyoJ51JHQxiamziS2pJUZUA59mxvLNxDDcPGHFnoko1G_84/s3674/IMG_0867.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3674" data-original-width="1424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMMF9lPEESkRILjhyYCBu8HATYsdQL9PWHzxbNcmXlONpfK2hxcIkDKN_XYv99aqa2-OtEdTo2tExVbiz65QsJ4czz0kthlErQb-Wxsx7aO7zwcWss2JKW7OPsc9kntPHis3WjcyTsda5_XYyoJ51JHQxiamziS2pJUZUA59mxvLNxDDcPGHFnoko1G_84/w155-h400/IMG_0867.jpeg" width="155" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUR8VyEFO9x0nd3vccA5cv2L7BfAP8qWnATHOTgWmriq5AKMLUKlE1kdHZFEXv5DZQqnv2TZ7xu9UbqfNH-d-eG6P4nPD4JuIBdU2da-wUfuMzVytPgqAY9HhxuJ0x6GGcUBp4oJ0z2nMB6SjJKw8UVSceVUceSEtgc3K_5y9up6MPEsCB1US1Y8-YFDdi/s4032/IMG_0869.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUR8VyEFO9x0nd3vccA5cv2L7BfAP8qWnATHOTgWmriq5AKMLUKlE1kdHZFEXv5DZQqnv2TZ7xu9UbqfNH-d-eG6P4nPD4JuIBdU2da-wUfuMzVytPgqAY9HhxuJ0x6GGcUBp4oJ0z2nMB6SjJKw8UVSceVUceSEtgc3K_5y9up6MPEsCB1US1Y8-YFDdi/w300-h400/IMG_0869.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But then we reached the Jugendstil section, and that was just stunning. Vases, glasses, furniture, handles, chess sets (one had sea stars, sea horses, octopuses… lovely)… just wonderful! Loved it! I’ve become such a fan of Jugendstil, LOL.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We also saw some pre-Bauhaus items, influenced by industrialization. It’s amazing how much of that kind of applied art entered our ordinary lives! Oh, and some more contemporary pieces; so inspiring, you know?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTE67BGhPAzssFIIvew7hD_-4CTM0joZCe2pCSiljoQQXCItEp4pcSTKgRCDldPRc3hiFfE9fYOcOmTDcxzR12CgPydkukoY0kzyx5a9FCNsGv4fpJNbF934tKqAz0uMBoq9clb99mO_birt3fz2seFEnL3yQThrT908QflXYdvX72Vg-WSKacj40ECYNi/s3854/IMG_0873.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3854" data-original-width="2890" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTE67BGhPAzssFIIvew7hD_-4CTM0joZCe2pCSiljoQQXCItEp4pcSTKgRCDldPRc3hiFfE9fYOcOmTDcxzR12CgPydkukoY0kzyx5a9FCNsGv4fpJNbF934tKqAz0uMBoq9clb99mO_birt3fz2seFEnL3yQThrT908QflXYdvX72Vg-WSKacj40ECYNi/w300-h400/IMG_0873.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR_a0_Vk0qfHAZs2_jkiSGlY2vTH3lGBHxCeQ-H7ijRCycmTIHCWZuS6rA7OcgEokKy75bH2CLrlZ9toSJukCE1JzftxAMAknzBPyE_4HZnQHyYNhzrwbxwqEw6L9JvtoB4-ffcNH-Rj35L3IQujAEplRzOko0jQkPJsgNUfgGOEZILkMpbZ2k3gVId8d/s4032/IMG_0897.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiR_a0_Vk0qfHAZs2_jkiSGlY2vTH3lGBHxCeQ-H7ijRCycmTIHCWZuS6rA7OcgEokKy75bH2CLrlZ9toSJukCE1JzftxAMAknzBPyE_4HZnQHyYNhzrwbxwqEw6L9JvtoB4-ffcNH-Rj35L3IQujAEplRzOko0jQkPJsgNUfgGOEZILkMpbZ2k3gVId8d/w400-h300/IMG_0897.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the museum we needed a break - the habibi was still tired from his cough - so we went to a nearby café, Feinschmaus, where we had coffee (German coffee is good, period), cheesecake and a very 50s-nostalgia dessert: Kalter Hund, which is basically a non-baked cookie and chocolate dessert. Not bad!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZTAmQaalBrHXOTAgxSLHRMfDj8KBYwOhhyphenhyphenfNepB2HD1lYzapTJzUoM9PcJjQsYFtiQuocniKDS7p5QmjOWDC2LWwHFIuxNWYyq30LZojM_KGbUNLfNpKki3gOGETvOMLpR16FnsxJUBFR6IZ-26w-YzzuFv9HqxL7z0MGuLAGfklEjFbC2Rs5zYgsdc8/s4032/IMG_0900.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLZTAmQaalBrHXOTAgxSLHRMfDj8KBYwOhhyphenhyphenfNepB2HD1lYzapTJzUoM9PcJjQsYFtiQuocniKDS7p5QmjOWDC2LWwHFIuxNWYyq30LZojM_KGbUNLfNpKki3gOGETvOMLpR16FnsxJUBFR6IZ-26w-YzzuFv9HqxL7z0MGuLAGfklEjFbC2Rs5zYgsdc8/w400-h300/IMG_0900.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The rest of the day went easy. We enjoyed the city’s architecture; a sculpture called Unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossen (Untimely contemporaries) criticizing self-serving archetypes of people; a beer by the market square… I also wanted us to take some moments to find some of Leipzig's Stolpersteine, commemorating the former Jewish inhabitants of the city. We found a cluster of 14 (fourteen!) at a corner. So tragic. But at least a couple of the plaques were about persons who managed to flee to Palestine, and some who survived Bergen-Belsen. 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We boarded an earlier train than we had planned; we were that satisfied with our discovering of Leipzig.</span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Leipzig51.3396955 12.373074723.029461663821152 -22.7831753 79.649929336178843 47.529324700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-37055586895428869682024-03-15T19:00:00.011+08:002024-03-15T19:00:00.132+08:00Leipzig day 2 – of nationalistic behemoths and German romanticism<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>originally written <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">March 9th</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d5a52322-7fff-06a3-27c1-b875ddadb508"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This was one intense day! It would’ve started with a nice German breakfast by the Thomaskirche, but the restaurant was booked through the weekend! So coffee and croissants nearby it was, plus pretty architecture, as usual.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzPvZqKDQAr4nrusl1TeH441-YO9EQLxoftdFnVxcBCHvKyecysGk9x4cDsmDFa3Y_XeJ4GW0D-dhN5SJj8auq934pKPfVK4VggasokYKbBafivAJ-eA246KIBVtsBl9G5fj2lLLcuc8iwSCF8_qs-8URjLMvJ_8tMclfv4fKfvkDhMulnxfC3WpSDo8T/s4032/IMG_0769.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzPvZqKDQAr4nrusl1TeH441-YO9EQLxoftdFnVxcBCHvKyecysGk9x4cDsmDFa3Y_XeJ4GW0D-dhN5SJj8auq934pKPfVK4VggasokYKbBafivAJ-eA246KIBVtsBl9G5fj2lLLcuc8iwSCF8_qs-8URjLMvJ_8tMclfv4fKfvkDhMulnxfC3WpSDo8T/w300-h400/IMG_0769.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiss4QnCBPxD-lIDkV-VwKLLOGmIS8exodIkSzjf8D_74vxl9EnMaBghjdrEZ1fNhoI1b552hCEiS-6h8B0ldwW-QPGwxksHon6lJ5TPArYcDjnuvuekkqXXWlHOwC9lqiNrSTpVKUL2H4-58HL56696AMQwydUVmTarikgEE-8P58jAglTwUmZ0NXVtQgS/s4032/IMG_0770.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiss4QnCBPxD-lIDkV-VwKLLOGmIS8exodIkSzjf8D_74vxl9EnMaBghjdrEZ1fNhoI1b552hCEiS-6h8B0ldwW-QPGwxksHon6lJ5TPArYcDjnuvuekkqXXWlHOwC9lqiNrSTpVKUL2H4-58HL56696AMQwydUVmTarikgEE-8P58jAglTwUmZ0NXVtQgS/w300-h400/IMG_0770.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVE_8khkpD-CyiZLk6Olc7jNVRVQW0tJIJ5eUvIL98k1Enpt_PIEqWMQ5cw3ZQM5AAnoPZUvlP0yNKrTp86Kt6rKFOiXf-z6ue_KDP7hgYHhQOUmXN5hBGkRkEdT1mUJoL6FZzeaj66PbG9dR8-R7PhtKMCBIk_0DsMEUbtKL3CTfvU97tNn8jf1xUusfC/s4032/IMG_0772.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVE_8khkpD-CyiZLk6Olc7jNVRVQW0tJIJ5eUvIL98k1Enpt_PIEqWMQ5cw3ZQM5AAnoPZUvlP0yNKrTp86Kt6rKFOiXf-z6ue_KDP7hgYHhQOUmXN5hBGkRkEdT1mUJoL6FZzeaj66PbG9dR8-R7PhtKMCBIk_0DsMEUbtKL3CTfvU97tNn8jf1xUusfC/w300-h400/IMG_0772.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEBliEtr-wfmAMTtraMknmEtwxd9UfqZ2HIF1bAwIx2GMleILIBVOnOwxRYSgPUlUe13WeI3MbbEiOerpIQ4EWfLGwLK-FwJPmQa5zV4Nc5E1nnErJMHeWetU1k2BWZGlTUcg-iUur3hGLU7SMQ90h14fT-uEbonV5oZxSU7wTUEaROdBLtjM7x5ScrO4/s4032/IMG_0774.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEBliEtr-wfmAMTtraMknmEtwxd9UfqZ2HIF1bAwIx2GMleILIBVOnOwxRYSgPUlUe13WeI3MbbEiOerpIQ4EWfLGwLK-FwJPmQa5zV4Nc5E1nnErJMHeWetU1k2BWZGlTUcg-iUur3hGLU7SMQ90h14fT-uEbonV5oZxSU7wTUEaROdBLtjM7x5ScrO4/w400-h300/IMG_0774.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And then we headed to the Monument to the Battle of the Nations (Völkerschlachtdenkmal), a massive monument by a mirror pool (the Lake of Tears) commemorating an 1813 battle against Napoleon, where forces from Prussia, Sweden, Russia and Austria faced Napoleon’s. About half a million people fought. Over 110,000 died in battle. They did defeat Napoleon, but at a most horrible cost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A hundred years later, to stoke German nationalism and unity, the current monument was built. It would later be used by both the Nazis and the Democratic Republic of Germany as a symbol of their nations. Now it stands as a reminder of the ravages of war and for the need for peace.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The thing is just crazy. Its design reminded us so much of nationalist Scandinavian and Baltic art, and you can see the origins of Jugendstil in it as well. Inside there is a crypt with incredibly serious-looking sculptures, most of them with a mourning look. But the figures are overly muscular, and powerful, and it almost looks like where conspiracies and rituals could take place. That kind of feeling, you know? We explored the whole edifice, as you can climb to the top, stopping at various levels. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we were leaving, we could only think of the horror so many people had to endure to satisfy the dreams of power and conquest of people way more powerful than them. We thought about the banality and futility of it all with the passing of time. About the dangers of nationalism… Quite a visit, eh?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpkyjW8t0mbXUald7VSBqxSQCX5QvJeMpClAqF3eSEa-lcA3rfWp5d9NwDqvRHCoNcTg0J3PJfa_ZfWghJ9DFOcp9ILAEM_hhXEyClmnW10q2_uXhfkKsi56KKe6fXy3FlgZYHw261lngMZBcerDChE27DxdpHXn_UzJsUyzS1zNUXLoAdlmN_OYQEgNa/s4032/IMG_0775.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzpkyjW8t0mbXUald7VSBqxSQCX5QvJeMpClAqF3eSEa-lcA3rfWp5d9NwDqvRHCoNcTg0J3PJfa_ZfWghJ9DFOcp9ILAEM_hhXEyClmnW10q2_uXhfkKsi56KKe6fXy3FlgZYHw261lngMZBcerDChE27DxdpHXn_UzJsUyzS1zNUXLoAdlmN_OYQEgNa/w300-h400/IMG_0775.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj986NIN4p6y-QDO8vq8XMG1VYfDsScFhFbj_j9Ug8Ap7988WEhvaHy8gCPNz2NTntz7UX9Fe5vzfoJNTo9V-EFJpt3lfyiDuLeQPwjLsQK7nGjndoi2ItMoKbw2WE-ae-lNk3wjR-huGfVLS5vwEXqSqk2LMX8sOA8B4lKFGEDPZ-XmSJ8-KxwfmY7bYLj/s4032/IMG_0804.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj986NIN4p6y-QDO8vq8XMG1VYfDsScFhFbj_j9Ug8Ap7988WEhvaHy8gCPNz2NTntz7UX9Fe5vzfoJNTo9V-EFJpt3lfyiDuLeQPwjLsQK7nGjndoi2ItMoKbw2WE-ae-lNk3wjR-huGfVLS5vwEXqSqk2LMX8sOA8B4lKFGEDPZ-XmSJ8-KxwfmY7bYLj/w300-h400/IMG_0804.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From there we headed to the Bayerischer Bahnhof Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei Leipzig, Germany’s oldest and best-preserved train station where we ate too much of traditional Bavarian fare and plenty of beer, including their famous Leipziger Gose and something even better – Leipziger Gose with Allasch (a caraway liquor)! Powerful and tasty!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_UawE114DXPIdG4zWd2mGMcoiN688-KGxR6xgsu-uxYzJHXzJWZuEFMSxsRzTmFpZ6zq7feDObvqTcKAu0VFUybgushbxd96OdHd-_szRJiyOjk2tNS0JDiGEVcEkXWSzAKVRD0VbDQXun2pUCDnbRqgO8MWTjCBccilIQ_oN9Zwzgl5qYvfqFUFacqO4/s4032/IMG_0812.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_UawE114DXPIdG4zWd2mGMcoiN688-KGxR6xgsu-uxYzJHXzJWZuEFMSxsRzTmFpZ6zq7feDObvqTcKAu0VFUybgushbxd96OdHd-_szRJiyOjk2tNS0JDiGEVcEkXWSzAKVRD0VbDQXun2pUCDnbRqgO8MWTjCBccilIQ_oN9Zwzgl5qYvfqFUFacqO4/w400-h300/IMG_0812.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvmF7dOzm0HHBnlwwLp878bd-12BbF_XRjXgCHlAcw5jsQ3LENuI8P2GIIK1RXEBUr90dnhvz2hypCTsXMLMqq9D4Mk1Z00PECkr3ExX-QQoR-G2w-PSrj3k89ExZRAhoOlF_Di8dGe1UqFFQKGRH_AEiArykCWy4tuAvSy4OIYtnXXaQoqaoDiOTAHEe/s4032/IMG_0815.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvmF7dOzm0HHBnlwwLp878bd-12BbF_XRjXgCHlAcw5jsQ3LENuI8P2GIIK1RXEBUr90dnhvz2hypCTsXMLMqq9D4Mk1Z00PECkr3ExX-QQoR-G2w-PSrj3k89ExZRAhoOlF_Di8dGe1UqFFQKGRH_AEiArykCWy4tuAvSy4OIYtnXXaQoqaoDiOTAHEe/w400-h300/IMG_0815.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUthbwO80TPUaiUen59mgGzPIfMz8xQ0rG4cgB6sOLI0uoYjUFXU6WqP6hyphenhyphenfEN1HraPD5S0VsJhH2a7bCyQbRdg-6jQWORsjsvEpcdCV_Obq5H8MOv5hVn1FcFspdqZ536JitZuEMW3adTAZpX6K8q3dSWpy6rw-Uh9nOH2C2JdStIOH0W_dnfFQ65J8c/s4032/IMG_0822.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiUthbwO80TPUaiUen59mgGzPIfMz8xQ0rG4cgB6sOLI0uoYjUFXU6WqP6hyphenhyphenfEN1HraPD5S0VsJhH2a7bCyQbRdg-6jQWORsjsvEpcdCV_Obq5H8MOv5hVn1FcFspdqZ536JitZuEMW3adTAZpX6K8q3dSWpy6rw-Uh9nOH2C2JdStIOH0W_dnfFQ65J8c/w300-h400/IMG_0822.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, that could have been plenty, but I still wanted to take us to the MdBK for some traditional museum food for the mind, right? We were tired, but it was on our way home… By the way, this walk took us past the “new” Rathaus, which definitely shows off how much money the city had, because that’s one massive and expensive City Hall. We also visited again the Holocaust memorial, and left two stones. Glad we did that. That was the right thing to do.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YqYnVH7lLwi5pTqOfpVHXCU8hMERDkaLadJEHEIF3BvaERKMntnJ0uZycVE_ZqD8lN3bb6tSdzNx5jO_WzgcMJxO6flbYYKZlJJNfUUB9oID2kO6yUlks-wOvw2pOqpCxdVW9_0eWeA0V_Jg51r-7jYWS1aGH_r6NWGmGcuotmXyQw-WW9CBuOVZt45E/s4032/IMG_0825.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YqYnVH7lLwi5pTqOfpVHXCU8hMERDkaLadJEHEIF3BvaERKMntnJ0uZycVE_ZqD8lN3bb6tSdzNx5jO_WzgcMJxO6flbYYKZlJJNfUUB9oID2kO6yUlks-wOvw2pOqpCxdVW9_0eWeA0V_Jg51r-7jYWS1aGH_r6NWGmGcuotmXyQw-WW9CBuOVZt45E/w400-h300/IMG_0825.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3mUAf2ED5x-4RmQxCLa3ZPWdSYht1XHTDFc8E156LEuPmVglT_W-gBem2kLlGORJTf4g9XWL_r0tljUfaux_tsDPXOvGCn1qhvjxsvAntqpEfuAftXwIs6hhThjCQ-uruezWxq8uNnafKfBSgPZ1SVXlISEUNiON04FsOV9l7Szv4sdor2udqTlScRaU/s4032/IMG_0827.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU3mUAf2ED5x-4RmQxCLa3ZPWdSYht1XHTDFc8E156LEuPmVglT_W-gBem2kLlGORJTf4g9XWL_r0tljUfaux_tsDPXOvGCn1qhvjxsvAntqpEfuAftXwIs6hhThjCQ-uruezWxq8uNnafKfBSgPZ1SVXlISEUNiON04FsOV9l7Szv4sdor2udqTlScRaU/w400-h300/IMG_0827.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6W0O4wRgBFdKq9PerE75xRu5NEF1IJXGrpjVm3csHa4MPk5TG0Wmxh-s1rnugALv1-7rQW9COnxy4rsqFeGkRw_0rLyzPBlUWrXmg7wcqWhPusYrywdfDBvffjh0LlmD1LbgQmyVsGT9PUu3kOpFCgqqMFUgcZ46QXe8-WEExi0opsmxAB2aAFSyZsTH/s4032/IMG_0829.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6W0O4wRgBFdKq9PerE75xRu5NEF1IJXGrpjVm3csHa4MPk5TG0Wmxh-s1rnugALv1-7rQW9COnxy4rsqFeGkRw_0rLyzPBlUWrXmg7wcqWhPusYrywdfDBvffjh0LlmD1LbgQmyVsGT9PUu3kOpFCgqqMFUgcZ46QXe8-WEExi0opsmxAB2aAFSyZsTH/w300-h400/IMG_0829.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But now, the MdBK. At this point we were already running on very low energy. But we still enjoyed works by Max Klinger (dude was crazy and unique!), Cranach (obviously), J. C. Dahl… really interesting. I wanted to show the habibi works by local Leipzig artists, but that cost extra and we had no energy to enjoy that. Perhaps on Sunday…</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuyxumOaiXPTFkzR6yIVbzy2bznpXhqRdVv5Iz0NF6TyX0Dmzg8ghyphenhyphen9gP2zwi8oFOuQkQtbIfURHBVyqu32hrSu5MV-W43MTb51OpJEZ_hKvwCcMrGkjUsCbuuwDHNHfk1Kvj5lgnUysB-dixUj1RFV40cYrq7rvwTkaOWhTncaEpGv8ngmc5i1BRIIT_X/s4032/IMG_0832.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuyxumOaiXPTFkzR6yIVbzy2bznpXhqRdVv5Iz0NF6TyX0Dmzg8ghyphenhyphen9gP2zwi8oFOuQkQtbIfURHBVyqu32hrSu5MV-W43MTb51OpJEZ_hKvwCcMrGkjUsCbuuwDHNHfk1Kvj5lgnUysB-dixUj1RFV40cYrq7rvwTkaOWhTncaEpGv8ngmc5i1BRIIT_X/w400-h300/IMG_0832.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOET86bq-ETOa9nsppnrDy1jKUfcQqoPOYwMcDOB_ZCRJhcYyJsg1MS_UJZpk-oD5TwPqkeAZEoXvbtQEQQWuLiD1EgUJLX8yeGyQ9TJIYDJURvzPit-Ngi_Son7ne3Q6I4jkTf-dfPuo0k3qHW4kkKKekRQbM8kyfoB_6iVCqxs6Sa4iJevJDopRVx7e/s4037/IMG_0835.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2270" data-original-width="4037" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCOET86bq-ETOa9nsppnrDy1jKUfcQqoPOYwMcDOB_ZCRJhcYyJsg1MS_UJZpk-oD5TwPqkeAZEoXvbtQEQQWuLiD1EgUJLX8yeGyQ9TJIYDJURvzPit-Ngi_Son7ne3Q6I4jkTf-dfPuo0k3qHW4kkKKekRQbM8kyfoB_6iVCqxs6Sa4iJevJDopRVx7e/w400-h225/IMG_0835.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANkPc7DeFbW9zXFFKk6PNRPR4L_McE6JPUXMk_d9n9Dm1FHc9LpR2L3LLpxLpBj8F8tccsk_u21hQcVjYgkLR52cwZWlAWpdAt7j4Y7dqFL2ffhL9KC2x59en-kzOcRBvRsfiPmCF6uy8ZR8Qfyv_FpPBRUgnYvoLjttlKmj2TwNG08gpnQeRmFSofVy2/s3904/IMG_0845.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3904" data-original-width="2928" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjANkPc7DeFbW9zXFFKk6PNRPR4L_McE6JPUXMk_d9n9Dm1FHc9LpR2L3LLpxLpBj8F8tccsk_u21hQcVjYgkLR52cwZWlAWpdAt7j4Y7dqFL2ffhL9KC2x59en-kzOcRBvRsfiPmCF6uy8ZR8Qfyv_FpPBRUgnYvoLjttlKmj2TwNG08gpnQeRmFSofVy2/w300-h400/IMG_0845.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloj2n0PhVDMEr5pWDkh_zpHlKHzeeDbPGUn3gMuaAY3DTRJKF82Wr0qab7KprBqglFIqmpSx3jOW2NPKmvDC11co7EyWExgOHmiT-IwFQSp2-JvXT4rBdj9_BvSIYfheHIVLn4jgpXaBGxwv5NlQElxS8vTV7YueU3obLxVf2xyyis-1PHx1dt7jnYiDB/s4032/IMG_0848.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgloj2n0PhVDMEr5pWDkh_zpHlKHzeeDbPGUn3gMuaAY3DTRJKF82Wr0qab7KprBqglFIqmpSx3jOW2NPKmvDC11co7EyWExgOHmiT-IwFQSp2-JvXT4rBdj9_BvSIYfheHIVLn4jgpXaBGxwv5NlQElxS8vTV7YueU3obLxVf2xyyis-1PHx1dt7jnYiDB/w300-h400/IMG_0848.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, after all this, we needed a pause!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Except that I decided not to take a nap, and went instead in search of Allasch! We loved this liquor, and it’s really unique, made of caraway seeds? Anyhow, I walked the streets, and finally decided that Mädler-Passage was probably fancy enough to have a liquor store. And it did! Gourmétage!! So many delicious spirits! I ended up buying a Bulleit bourbon from Kentucky aged 10 years, a pink Kyrö gin from Finland, and a bottle of original Leipzig Allasch! Yay! Success!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At night, I got to see a bit of Plagwitz, as I met up with one of the locals, what we could describe as a Leipzig Viking - you know, very tall, very muscular, very blond, very white. I mean, I know people have been getting taller everywhere in the world, but am I having one intense experience in Germany with big tall people! It's a very curious area, by the way, it reminds me a bit of Kottbusser Tor in Berlin, except perhaps like 60 times less active?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40HpZa3IPPOeXQh5rhVpSq7p0JTsEuhzmINwov_dk3kI5nHfMEslAtNMK5TWBP4N-BodOnbg4a3SO_6dEMyT2Z1HdBaP4_yTwLENMKlfkO7g6I43ItozcYRT38YjraxgPW6dZ9Y0NuyrY5i-7F_3ydGobGd718k4xs2l99Dc0lyZkyg3XgrPPSM7wopS6/s3448/IMG_0851.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2586" data-original-width="3448" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj40HpZa3IPPOeXQh5rhVpSq7p0JTsEuhzmINwov_dk3kI5nHfMEslAtNMK5TWBP4N-BodOnbg4a3SO_6dEMyT2Z1HdBaP4_yTwLENMKlfkO7g6I43ItozcYRT38YjraxgPW6dZ9Y0NuyrY5i-7F_3ydGobGd718k4xs2l99Dc0lyZkyg3XgrPPSM7wopS6/w400-h300/IMG_0851.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhow, I went back to our area to meet the habibi for a beer at an Irish pub. He offered to order one before I arrived. I shouldn’t have let him. He’s notoriously bad at reading menus. So, instead of getting us a Murphy stout, he got us a Murphy red ale! Which was nice and very refreshing, but still… Love the guy, he’ll never change… LOL.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After that we looked for some food for him, because he really needed to eat something after a couple of beers, and we realized that 10:30pm was already way too late to find bars and restaurants with open kitchens! What? On a Saturday night? We ended up at McDonald’s… Yeah. Only place still serving food late…</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tomorrow is our last day. We’ll see what we do with it!</span></span></p><p></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Leipzig51.3396955 12.373074723.029461663821152 -22.7831753 79.649929336178843 47.529324700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-18070805548223182982024-03-13T19:00:00.001+08:002024-03-13T19:00:00.144+08:00Leipzig day 1 – Bach, Faust, and dead Jews<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span>originally written </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">March 8th</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-d69974dd-7fff-5deb-34ff-948227d73457"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re in Leipzig! And that’s a lot harder to believe than you may think! You see, a couple of days ago a train strike was announced, and the train we had booked was cancelled! Also, we were supposed to come to Leipzig in February, and we had to cancel our trip because of… a previous train strike! So this time I was determined to get to Leipzig no matter what. And I found a train service that was running from Hamburg to Munich, with stops in Berlin and Leipzig, and which would cut its route short (because of the strike) but still end in Leipzig! Yay! Sure, we didn’t know for sure the train would run until it actually entered the station, but we made it!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now, Leipzig. I had been here for work before. But I wanted to come back to enjoy the city, and to bring the habibi along! And our first day was just great. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Because of the train change, we arrived too early, so we first had a look at the Starbucks at the train station, which occupies what must have been a fancy-ish hall in pre-war times… it’s probably the nicest Starbucks you’ll ever see! Also, the main entrance, with its peculiar hexagonal design. Then, the hotel offered to give us a better room if we could wait until 2pm. So, we left our luggage at the hotel… and went out to explore! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5m0z-0_wnjKw61pCV76s1VcrP3p529V30igFx5WDunnxOwgqyRyz6x7UtuLQ26xsM1MHsVBSnIFAgDGUx-BJgQKI0ITSVSHGfSKDDfVmr1UDr4MsI2sU0Iy8ul-9A0BphM4o-qHF6ID5kP8gevEaqxWhjlY8Ef6NYWtVodepsmtb1gj_oRUjoYZgM6RRC/s4032/IMG_0685.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5m0z-0_wnjKw61pCV76s1VcrP3p529V30igFx5WDunnxOwgqyRyz6x7UtuLQ26xsM1MHsVBSnIFAgDGUx-BJgQKI0ITSVSHGfSKDDfVmr1UDr4MsI2sU0Iy8ul-9A0BphM4o-qHF6ID5kP8gevEaqxWhjlY8Ef6NYWtVodepsmtb1gj_oRUjoYZgM6RRC/w400-h300/IMG_0685.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7wKdVY2Kj_L_boNg4JIO_wy3OQpsFFGceVVnKOwvHtMFroMadZYueE2JMP99DA_YL5wpL0oFjXl1X25uzF5-yXNgYIgzXg1WKePLdYJfyjOl7YtGBgr2K9T1ihe89on2ZXJOOvp0b_NQEVdW9ITZimrLVzyNnmbnJyZCosdpem6NhMZJZgFNMuKpRQtB/s4032/IMG_0687.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS7wKdVY2Kj_L_boNg4JIO_wy3OQpsFFGceVVnKOwvHtMFroMadZYueE2JMP99DA_YL5wpL0oFjXl1X25uzF5-yXNgYIgzXg1WKePLdYJfyjOl7YtGBgr2K9T1ihe89on2ZXJOOvp0b_NQEVdW9ITZimrLVzyNnmbnJyZCosdpem6NhMZJZgFNMuKpRQtB/w400-h300/IMG_0687.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First stop? Kaffeehaus Riquet, a café from 1908 in a beautiful building with lots of oriental inspiration (the company used to do business with Asia and the Middle East in the 18th century), where we had good coffee, quark cake, and Leipziger Lerchen, a local treat that is like a tiny pie filled with jam and marzipan! Yum! Of course, we couldn’t avoid heavy conversation even during our holidays, and we ended up talking about the dehumanization of people, like Israelis, or Palestinians or, for that matter, ordinary German citizens during Nazi rule. I mean, this city is a constant reminder of the ravages of war, so I guess the subject was bound to come up, right?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YyPmaiZz2vl9pqwhpvplr36G4C8tFRlG-IGxmmbOirCvPP2i0kYfWuHxKpKtywzU2tgWfwr8-t8ntWZ94GPt3gckadL44GqliT6HNJoTlrcJl-zoldpf9A4eFvKiTu0ZyztgtZYIActB4tW8VM2CPpyH1oXNVr58OQdFT5pSvEcPBDCvm4SJwXvIzw_w/s4032/IMG_0693.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YyPmaiZz2vl9pqwhpvplr36G4C8tFRlG-IGxmmbOirCvPP2i0kYfWuHxKpKtywzU2tgWfwr8-t8ntWZ94GPt3gckadL44GqliT6HNJoTlrcJl-zoldpf9A4eFvKiTu0ZyztgtZYIActB4tW8VM2CPpyH1oXNVr58OQdFT5pSvEcPBDCvm4SJwXvIzw_w/w300-h400/IMG_0693.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCIjngjIrWmqVpqPluIHvKFh-Ggn-q3BRjdiHKUackGxD1pFws56nU5pXCyAOOWOD-5RsPgveJD4UL4b6tf88SnhjZgAHFlCAkvXwnDMXndY9MiI3SMlacv0es5N5tq0ll8QupOyjNesHBX2dZ9A3MZElxlzET32_YIWYkBFBk0Yr9sDmpcsz91Flnk-cy/s4032/IMG_0696.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCIjngjIrWmqVpqPluIHvKFh-Ggn-q3BRjdiHKUackGxD1pFws56nU5pXCyAOOWOD-5RsPgveJD4UL4b6tf88SnhjZgAHFlCAkvXwnDMXndY9MiI3SMlacv0es5N5tq0ll8QupOyjNesHBX2dZ9A3MZElxlzET32_YIWYkBFBk0Yr9sDmpcsz91Flnk-cy/w400-h300/IMG_0696.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then we went to the Nikolaikirche, a Baroque church originally from 1165, but whose Baroque interior dated to the last quarter of the 18th century. By the way, Bach worked here. Yes, that Bach! But back to the church. It’s got some beautiful columns that end in palm leaves, and the whole decor is done in pastel greens, pinks and, near the entrance, yellows. It’s really special. Glad it was open!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2W63cIK9IGaW0g5OWX0oSDvkNsgpEFTcwksWnmOcaVRdavE9W3XZGjWjz3aD7pPRvdt-tlTwgnk2JU1zjEH3YbLSbuWWU9797Po0dVW6Q-j5eiu1H4JOL4HeQ6ikCBZzpVJXi8SOfjqVeJ5GExS8Os_HpL4JkItqpGsD7-aiSGboATR4GKqcIYZTFCl/s4032/IMG_0701.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIr2W63cIK9IGaW0g5OWX0oSDvkNsgpEFTcwksWnmOcaVRdavE9W3XZGjWjz3aD7pPRvdt-tlTwgnk2JU1zjEH3YbLSbuWWU9797Po0dVW6Q-j5eiu1H4JOL4HeQ6ikCBZzpVJXi8SOfjqVeJ5GExS8Os_HpL4JkItqpGsD7-aiSGboATR4GKqcIYZTFCl/w300-h400/IMG_0701.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPK8y_tPT5jvHLzm4H1M73tN4kTYYlNarJMn94z75fZxFvBsv1eU5F1BBgXDVJIVlVZ5-Y1hfrhTqAJE1uurIeELu_6ljOAAf64gVIRBE2L_chnu1FoK4VR5Kqf_wzw-tO7WmoC4vxSMDYq1dHzCA-ZdOCR4X2MvuXKm1cmEc4lZnp-ce99nl3FBVvNC0T/s4032/IMG_0702.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPK8y_tPT5jvHLzm4H1M73tN4kTYYlNarJMn94z75fZxFvBsv1eU5F1BBgXDVJIVlVZ5-Y1hfrhTqAJE1uurIeELu_6ljOAAf64gVIRBE2L_chnu1FoK4VR5Kqf_wzw-tO7WmoC4vxSMDYq1dHzCA-ZdOCR4X2MvuXKm1cmEc4lZnp-ce99nl3FBVvNC0T/w300-h400/IMG_0702.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From there we visited the Market Square, with lots of different architecture all around, plus a day market! And what did we buy? A fish sandwich, of course! I love Fischbrötchen in Germany! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoKDcvfoVC-hveBZcgCsCF5i7I2FJtw3SxPP17crHW6rMkvqhJMLKiU9hkTU6VqKFYH9EvVss-Wjv67_eyU_ELU9-MnWltLi2zVl36iJyuE8yT4pzloWMR3p-f40g3xrlOp9z9_UmjSlPDf6I4cxjoCi2FAsI7a8KP3ICjp4AdvG1OSHRH44EkdRDJB6I/s4032/IMG_0706.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyoKDcvfoVC-hveBZcgCsCF5i7I2FJtw3SxPP17crHW6rMkvqhJMLKiU9hkTU6VqKFYH9EvVss-Wjv67_eyU_ELU9-MnWltLi2zVl36iJyuE8yT4pzloWMR3p-f40g3xrlOp9z9_UmjSlPDf6I4cxjoCi2FAsI7a8KP3ICjp4AdvG1OSHRH44EkdRDJB6I/w400-h300/IMG_0706.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyi-bgm-RAezSe9SagWawtzdYAOutZ3Tyfbm5W6mUaaAeh3PKCjmMNPXwheduGX6kPA8w6hDOt1s_AwSyVM7ysGwb3fCnxotxMZpwCg0Ym2RIebiS3I8CgNbO0Mhf8qNszi7p7vO7nRTdnz0Iz_Q614L3vqm8iuL8hKx-z4OrdYxA8RTVLya26Qm5M8hnc/s4032/IMG_0713.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyi-bgm-RAezSe9SagWawtzdYAOutZ3Tyfbm5W6mUaaAeh3PKCjmMNPXwheduGX6kPA8w6hDOt1s_AwSyVM7ysGwb3fCnxotxMZpwCg0Ym2RIebiS3I8CgNbO0Mhf8qNszi7p7vO7nRTdnz0Iz_Q614L3vqm8iuL8hKx-z4OrdYxA8RTVLya26Qm5M8hnc/w400-h300/IMG_0713.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We then visited the Mädler Passage, a commercial passage (like so many the city has) that retains a bit of its former atmosphere but, more importantly, houses Auerbachs Keller, a place Goethe used to visit and drink at, and which has existed since the 16th century! And this restaurant/bar is where Mephistopheles brings Faust first to! It’s ridiculous how close we are to so many important cultural things, right?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nympV-MsQXdnJfQugWSBiX2UKjhzvuVW2Xel29y0ZBzGfeFNu0kLrEiyeR3ewvjDT3MILzPAYYiaflGZZJxUAMAUettOj5M6F4wo6qrtBBvS-e0CUXxpeb13DnRXRXbBSfWlLjDVE151fEpiSH36xVh9sImPoLPXCjc-3sHAEQedf8XCKyRQECo4jZOV/s4032/IMG_0714.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nympV-MsQXdnJfQugWSBiX2UKjhzvuVW2Xel29y0ZBzGfeFNu0kLrEiyeR3ewvjDT3MILzPAYYiaflGZZJxUAMAUettOj5M6F4wo6qrtBBvS-e0CUXxpeb13DnRXRXbBSfWlLjDVE151fEpiSH36xVh9sImPoLPXCjc-3sHAEQedf8XCKyRQECo4jZOV/w300-h400/IMG_0714.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next – and after spotting a wonderful building with Jugendtsil atlantes – it was time for another iconic stop – the Thomaskirche, where Bach not only was the cantor… he’s actually buried there! The fact that I don’t have to give any more details about Bach speaks to how important he is, right? We paid our respects to the genius, and then explored a bit of the church, which is done in late Gothic style. I really liked the ceiling with arches connected by red unions from which suns and rays would come out. But also, we happened to arrive in time for a practice by the church’s choir! So, we actually got to hear some Bach at his church! And hearing those voices and music was a wonderful reminder of why we see this man as a genius. It’s literally heavenly music. So lucky!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbQQ76pYE7I5-Hq_pYa35045vTKwZcYttWLgOU-YwU_y07aUD63YHKddqtZURJOFs2J6RsX6S2aB19WPV9lDvIlxAhy98gYBjO5-bRfxrTyRt0-9wyp3GmDluh2d6zMqT0vjg3I204qPmRsxVFsm2cCbZOb59U-V-WrsSVEMMbcFecdll2i_GWD4QRPYI/s4032/IMG_0720.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbQQ76pYE7I5-Hq_pYa35045vTKwZcYttWLgOU-YwU_y07aUD63YHKddqtZURJOFs2J6RsX6S2aB19WPV9lDvIlxAhy98gYBjO5-bRfxrTyRt0-9wyp3GmDluh2d6zMqT0vjg3I204qPmRsxVFsm2cCbZOb59U-V-WrsSVEMMbcFecdll2i_GWD4QRPYI/w300-h400/IMG_0720.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioNv-KrG6y9wMIB-JNG4GYBMlcJ_MBZiek6X4gUOEiP33k7VqSqFaBrgPfz8F5d8Xjf4De_qN0tSciiejdbZm-JnDhPcI7nGNKgdG6Bfy5N-z6ar1jUhYOGyQezKTXn5cr9GVPsaly0otK6-AyqusKV-rW8VxcSlCGZ525o_wVB7bI3ds-qZ64WWW00gs/s4032/IMG_0718.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiioNv-KrG6y9wMIB-JNG4GYBMlcJ_MBZiek6X4gUOEiP33k7VqSqFaBrgPfz8F5d8Xjf4De_qN0tSciiejdbZm-JnDhPcI7nGNKgdG6Bfy5N-z6ar1jUhYOGyQezKTXn5cr9GVPsaly0otK6-AyqusKV-rW8VxcSlCGZ525o_wVB7bI3ds-qZ64WWW00gs/w400-h300/IMG_0718.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGoTlAjLC5RtRL-FRq3upGvHt5bDKTLq_UiAEoVcq4550ue9-vgWeNPLQyOircB9qD2tssMJApr-_aoaWJ5dYmBA2k48rRmltEi0pyCz6QElYZbryTHP_vhTz0xIT_zEpC1Tf3ELNdhyUpujSR0ecXFE3sWtnW1kUeVnR2N7xNWWiDZ-o70xhHqB1DIcs/s4032/IMG_0725.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGoTlAjLC5RtRL-FRq3upGvHt5bDKTLq_UiAEoVcq4550ue9-vgWeNPLQyOircB9qD2tssMJApr-_aoaWJ5dYmBA2k48rRmltEi0pyCz6QElYZbryTHP_vhTz0xIT_zEpC1Tf3ELNdhyUpujSR0ecXFE3sWtnW1kUeVnR2N7xNWWiDZ-o70xhHqB1DIcs/w300-h400/IMG_0725.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklq5nBeBu7Nu4I3s38cjyPjfSv-9NsyT-1saVFHwpK_P96wkuBVH2Iw1ypYW6F66wtYjsF7FgPxcS7ZDfKAgpz74O7u-aX4wiL26szA817thbb2-R-EbF1TwluFdX1dqtlyxv8KwvDi61ZaT_5i_xSJr4OUydIbPRM1TwHxR8ytyinnm3OyJRZuj00MVp/s4032/IMG_0730.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklq5nBeBu7Nu4I3s38cjyPjfSv-9NsyT-1saVFHwpK_P96wkuBVH2Iw1ypYW6F66wtYjsF7FgPxcS7ZDfKAgpz74O7u-aX4wiL26szA817thbb2-R-EbF1TwluFdX1dqtlyxv8KwvDi61ZaT_5i_xSJr4OUydIbPRM1TwHxR8ytyinnm3OyJRZuj00MVp/w400-h300/IMG_0730.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We felt like going back to the hotel to rest, but we also wanted a drink. In the end, we decided to go to Auerbachs Keller, where we not only had a Gose beer, but also lunch with wild hog and mushrooms and red sauerkraut, as well as a glass of Allasch, a local liquor that tastes a lot like anise and which is actually a recipe from Riga that became popular in Leipzig. It was fun eating at the place where Goethe used to come drink and where one of the scenes of Faust takes place!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36dyGaF5gRXq4nZu25YyIPttV4wNvaTd23-cm_N4dXrWwflPLBGXu3qsyMp-8mSPNpsQ4CKzCldiyClaNwr74UzskagRmNpLkNulPLLXagcM1EkbqxyP8h0ikuFkkxmtjh9_lx2IRLH5hTUMFXQIBg9zH955XTac6oXzG8VkZc9v8JffFduJ8QQnp10jE/s4032/IMG_0740.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36dyGaF5gRXq4nZu25YyIPttV4wNvaTd23-cm_N4dXrWwflPLBGXu3qsyMp-8mSPNpsQ4CKzCldiyClaNwr74UzskagRmNpLkNulPLLXagcM1EkbqxyP8h0ikuFkkxmtjh9_lx2IRLH5hTUMFXQIBg9zH955XTac6oXzG8VkZc9v8JffFduJ8QQnp10jE/w400-h300/IMG_0740.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this and stopping at a couple of bookshops, and enjoying the architecture of the city in general, we finally went for a quick rest at our hotel. And the hotel delivered – it was indeed a nice room!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZe1qyGV2TRkZu0D4fkrQwMR_SGQB055AeHzgtSs2Rhqe9muLnr_-djHd01LQ1Imh_fa6LjC9wsIHvWIBOUu8LRyeD_FqPlaWEQFNP3f8_dNkMr57b9wi8hDiRYTp2G_lPxwf3IXxwxxHHgvfq6g6iNENJAcwyYU8O5lL01_3eXySQ9_fWdrM4_clMYtGW/s4032/IMG_0749.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZe1qyGV2TRkZu0D4fkrQwMR_SGQB055AeHzgtSs2Rhqe9muLnr_-djHd01LQ1Imh_fa6LjC9wsIHvWIBOUu8LRyeD_FqPlaWEQFNP3f8_dNkMr57b9wi8hDiRYTp2G_lPxwf3IXxwxxHHgvfq6g6iNENJAcwyYU8O5lL01_3eXySQ9_fWdrM4_clMYtGW/w400-h300/IMG_0749.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyNOmcF3LtB2ZuYhO80YDQuYYfF-XLO58CYR9LYIGAYbF-9zNu5j8t1umgk2mVwzuPFcWDHzK6zHBDlF-1U1v0rO_5LgL5onRa7crD5aVaQ9wt3U7ERKx1toFJ0-3oo6XNeFJiyfYyRA1fP6kMYQyt4BTXm3RgBlibAlcNvIM3R9Ds5HTd6OKFRmPwB6P/s4032/IMG_0750.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyNOmcF3LtB2ZuYhO80YDQuYYfF-XLO58CYR9LYIGAYbF-9zNu5j8t1umgk2mVwzuPFcWDHzK6zHBDlF-1U1v0rO_5LgL5onRa7crD5aVaQ9wt3U7ERKx1toFJ0-3oo6XNeFJiyfYyRA1fP6kMYQyt4BTXm3RgBlibAlcNvIM3R9Ds5HTd6OKFRmPwB6P/w300-h400/IMG_0750.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIkL1NaqOhH5KCBUtiWPW9hlDZVPEJeF36zC_esvHGlMXFx5KwHGsRezSStX7f-m7WxYhqL-vHs74xmhegNNorSjIHOH1Z8Qzatv7sYKmFBImYxnTtSR4aCn1M9c0kO3u37CnnZbIJCcputKsSUU6BkZC3KWSN_-uBsJoFAmMuUkCdbD4x9m2TwAVL-Ww/s4032/IMG_0751.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIkL1NaqOhH5KCBUtiWPW9hlDZVPEJeF36zC_esvHGlMXFx5KwHGsRezSStX7f-m7WxYhqL-vHs74xmhegNNorSjIHOH1Z8Qzatv7sYKmFBImYxnTtSR4aCn1M9c0kO3u37CnnZbIJCcputKsSUU6BkZC3KWSN_-uBsJoFAmMuUkCdbD4x9m2TwAVL-Ww/w300-h400/IMG_0751.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After our nap, we went for a walk, pizza for dinner, views of the city at night (including the old Rathaus), and we ended at the Holocaust memorial… 140 chairs representing the 14,000-strong Jewish population of Leipzig that was obliterated during National Socialism. And they’re set in the space where the community synagogue stood. Of course, like so many, it was destroyed during the November Pogrom of 1938. It was a special moment. We’ll come back during the day, with stones to put on the memorial.</span></span></p><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZh8vNAf_554Iy9P2Cb_8Dt8QbvbDqtxAtVXKAyMlXIvVxqxG0_WcOTRpcB_qAOLANSvrzEM36ry9073cuEPgKERv__mdrUgoI5my-Cc6pjqtYGfxUo5swEG7LFzXl1jO6v9XxiOW_3T5qZ1FSpiov03xboP51xY6RYFAvXEsYS25jFGI-DTmhGLAjJay-/s4032/IMG_0755.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZh8vNAf_554Iy9P2Cb_8Dt8QbvbDqtxAtVXKAyMlXIvVxqxG0_WcOTRpcB_qAOLANSvrzEM36ry9073cuEPgKERv__mdrUgoI5my-Cc6pjqtYGfxUo5swEG7LFzXl1jO6v9XxiOW_3T5qZ1FSpiov03xboP51xY6RYFAvXEsYS25jFGI-DTmhGLAjJay-/w400-h300/IMG_0755.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GeQbwybNdRFyQrFT81PAwUgwGd62vkD9uQuInJVPRr4kMVofs4jnFASM7T-DjVgBJXEbCX4MjblqTnYex9_cU14L7RQ87naLNQ6hPrNHkyO64vcsZlxzc-059rGv6J5nb7QICroTTRFgZEbTYyd3Cb1_nSXdADsD3C_qk0IR1tZN4mvNJFwC6mZV4dJD/s4032/IMG_0760.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GeQbwybNdRFyQrFT81PAwUgwGd62vkD9uQuInJVPRr4kMVofs4jnFASM7T-DjVgBJXEbCX4MjblqTnYex9_cU14L7RQ87naLNQ6hPrNHkyO64vcsZlxzc-059rGv6J5nb7QICroTTRFgZEbTYyd3Cb1_nSXdADsD3C_qk0IR1tZN4mvNJFwC6mZV4dJD/w400-h300/IMG_0760.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32mFfr3nYYisZC9Hrdfc5hUiRlXbgZM2ng0NpvVVDgdUjVLjypjMN4RKmkgwrUWHh_c9mlbJkdwWJTtoilnNGQVN9mT_LfEE85oYmIQEsG14sBLI5ImsY54fWcSnr2u0NgsqJbIaGYd_gvvan6BdmR_NQI10Egd6UlrpALTCxAzzuzsw05HkHyM-bIc36/s4032/IMG_0765.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj32mFfr3nYYisZC9Hrdfc5hUiRlXbgZM2ng0NpvVVDgdUjVLjypjMN4RKmkgwrUWHh_c9mlbJkdwWJTtoilnNGQVN9mT_LfEE85oYmIQEsG14sBLI5ImsY54fWcSnr2u0NgsqJbIaGYd_gvvan6BdmR_NQI10Egd6UlrpALTCxAzzuzsw05HkHyM-bIc36/w300-h400/IMG_0765.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span><p></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Leipzig, Germany51.3396955 12.373074723.029461663821152 -22.7831753 79.649929336178843 47.529324700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-16689542750256653702024-03-05T18:00:00.001+08:002024-03-05T18:00:00.131+08:00Yu Shui, or Rain Water and Marlene & queer love<p>these are some highlights of our life in Berlin during Yu Shui 大寒 (February 19th to March 4th)</p><p><i>February 19th to 23rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I finally got a chance to get sort of close-ish to a coot! I love these birds, the combination of black feathers and white beak... Really cute. Also, some tiny flowers are already blossoming! Yay! It's the beginning of spring! Also, we're having more and more sunny and clear days! And what do clear days mean? Sunsets! Pretty sunsets! Especially across the ponds and canals of Tiergarten!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokL_my0nP7ZrICLMBneZHDHQv3b1UySh9MLHA3gN8IkkP9MP4TowUlqLCiPAlaYEaDfBd7tfe1jTGb0OZ3t3piKOt_YiaqcqRfFLq6gPjIpFiAtlmTBihSdlaftBkIaoso0mgAKAnSNNbxnIaHIkYgqG8uRRpJr3XQ2CZv3Izn4gDkva2Hw29KlpENUcH/s4032/IMG_0362.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokL_my0nP7ZrICLMBneZHDHQv3b1UySh9MLHA3gN8IkkP9MP4TowUlqLCiPAlaYEaDfBd7tfe1jTGb0OZ3t3piKOt_YiaqcqRfFLq6gPjIpFiAtlmTBihSdlaftBkIaoso0mgAKAnSNNbxnIaHIkYgqG8uRRpJr3XQ2CZv3Izn4gDkva2Hw29KlpENUcH/w400-h300/IMG_0362.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWx_g28LCEipV0c2-rQA_TptOG9KWggMWeJuVHsIsyArELHPqGOyAS1KGmWZh7V7jfjT6RflL8drWH4-h46MBTj0YH2ftzkH5yDG3r94UIMbCm0-2GxMVSLsK4LM8It0-zYxXE7JI0ic3nGUOQDt2oikxMa6p_fIIAyHIiAb1d3AUfRAwM2NkT1rsoEW9/s4032/IMG_0394.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWx_g28LCEipV0c2-rQA_TptOG9KWggMWeJuVHsIsyArELHPqGOyAS1KGmWZh7V7jfjT6RflL8drWH4-h46MBTj0YH2ftzkH5yDG3r94UIMbCm0-2GxMVSLsK4LM8It0-zYxXE7JI0ic3nGUOQDt2oikxMa6p_fIIAyHIiAb1d3AUfRAwM2NkT1rsoEW9/w300-h400/IMG_0394.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPax97wG_nNTf0yV-hTc2tnvO84RM0msgiHl6gLWfNTVBKAWF9hn7gJbODDZOlNqar83ZRv4gbwi6Ke1OHGcZn13hdB95iAWuPq4vo925JAFBWKUyuaofQNSyMOw7YDZiHcQVYnHUq265R1GqEYMUHLvn2Bs6hpVZwK7hud6kRK72vVjs2lKMSurPff6t/s4032/IMG_0400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglPax97wG_nNTf0yV-hTc2tnvO84RM0msgiHl6gLWfNTVBKAWF9hn7gJbODDZOlNqar83ZRv4gbwi6Ke1OHGcZn13hdB95iAWuPq4vo925JAFBWKUyuaofQNSyMOw7YDZiHcQVYnHUq265R1GqEYMUHLvn2Bs6hpVZwK7hud6kRK72vVjs2lKMSurPff6t/w300-h400/IMG_0400.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-9jq2AlGVU1h5bvgZyRghIVg5gaqdiGCOvhhsXHfmt-4BFzBAV2oJsWuz6-y_xVhR4cwyQirf-q0OOhdIkCsv2xpdlMy0WNMigGnL4PXsENHSAqAU_mxtN2E8tFTcYS-vZkRtA_060ThlzcVumVxdM5u3uVU6PAzGeG5tyf430-VydnqDHRqO9nschCI/s4032/IMG_0403.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir-9jq2AlGVU1h5bvgZyRghIVg5gaqdiGCOvhhsXHfmt-4BFzBAV2oJsWuz6-y_xVhR4cwyQirf-q0OOhdIkCsv2xpdlMy0WNMigGnL4PXsENHSAqAU_mxtN2E8tFTcYS-vZkRtA_060ThlzcVumVxdM5u3uVU6PAzGeG5tyf430-VydnqDHRqO9nschCI/w400-h300/IMG_0403.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>February 23rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, we may not have managed to find any tickets for the Berlinale, but we did get tickets for the Teddy Awards party at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz! The Teddy Awards are given to Berlinale queer films, and afterwards there is a party that takes place in the different rooms and areas of the theatre. People dress fancy, colourful, fun... And there are people from everywhere as well. We were there with some friends of ours... we danced to so many classical hits (think Cher, Madonna, Punjabi MC!), had photos taken at a photo booth, and just had good nice fun. Not the kind of party you usually find me at, but with these friends, it was great!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvaLV0aKKPhSS__0jAZQ8eUDyhG2z_xOD9tjyxWo-FdaMg67EQnIldL83pCBTvc5V_DUXALpEt2l4aBYSdtJFSp8EvgB1OuJjQv_A7FufAKywEEdZoNASF0ce0a8ebokjOtt6q7glyLrABX34n6_RaafL5aoIVh7iO6uH4qn6Bn9eY4qO6_S70HDkpbxd/s4032/IMG_0410.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFvaLV0aKKPhSS__0jAZQ8eUDyhG2z_xOD9tjyxWo-FdaMg67EQnIldL83pCBTvc5V_DUXALpEt2l4aBYSdtJFSp8EvgB1OuJjQv_A7FufAKywEEdZoNASF0ce0a8ebokjOtt6q7glyLrABX34n6_RaafL5aoIVh7iO6uH4qn6Bn9eY4qO6_S70HDkpbxd/w300-h400/IMG_0410.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3fPaIc-8Sx_JLfwqO3qcvXFghIGUeAoKm7FVbRpnh2bmfnCPwgoT5Oxzymjm2e6vJ7-5OM37z7k_5RiZBzviMwAkybLSuLemVnwec_M8ENPf8YjBao42ILUGs30zwhA6qMSMopEK59wZsLKJDt2SAVtUAS11LyHrpBEXqAG6Td_QHJ7bJGUKAEVlh04_w/s4032/IMG_0414.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3fPaIc-8Sx_JLfwqO3qcvXFghIGUeAoKm7FVbRpnh2bmfnCPwgoT5Oxzymjm2e6vJ7-5OM37z7k_5RiZBzviMwAkybLSuLemVnwec_M8ENPf8YjBao42ILUGs30zwhA6qMSMopEK59wZsLKJDt2SAVtUAS11LyHrpBEXqAG6Td_QHJ7bJGUKAEVlh04_w/w300-h400/IMG_0414.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyI5uvSw8oxKLdoNGoQQd-Hd-DU221D4_ks099Gx60tV-yylyaMbJLn5Gjt0EB8Nux5b4eLquG4asJop39CAieBtHE8Hvc1Yt7nvKLkJ8vukoQFxyNxLk2QYG1RE-knl7hxs3cguNiPxwG3oM2OKwdfIViiE4445Xef_ifFF7zDyDQci2z0f_WMNyj7Qao/s4032/IMG_0428.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyI5uvSw8oxKLdoNGoQQd-Hd-DU221D4_ks099Gx60tV-yylyaMbJLn5Gjt0EB8Nux5b4eLquG4asJop39CAieBtHE8Hvc1Yt7nvKLkJ8vukoQFxyNxLk2QYG1RE-knl7hxs3cguNiPxwG3oM2OKwdfIViiE4445Xef_ifFF7zDyDQci2z0f_WMNyj7Qao/w400-h300/IMG_0428.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>February 24th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A friend of mine created this startup for queer-focused access to healthcare. And he had called for volunteers to model for photos for their website. I wanted to help, plus I had never had a professional photoshoot of myself. So, I raised my hand... and I got in! It was so much fun! It was long (9am to 5pm), because there were individual shots, group shots, couple shots... But the photographer, the other models, and the whole team in general were just so nice and warm and lovely... I had such a good time. And now I'll have pretty photos of myself, which I totally don't mind!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">By nighttime, the habibi was feeling really sick. Tired from the partying the night before, sore from a new routine at the gym, lacking energy because of some cough... He was cranky, and I'm a bad nurse. I may be an efficient one, but I'm not a lovable one, LOL. And I was missing like dancing to something more techno-like. And then a friend of mine said he was going to a party at a place called Trauma Bar, because a friend of his was performing there. Sounded exactly what I needed, so after I got some dinner for the habibi and me and left him at home to rest, I went to meet my friend...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And at the place I realized the event was geared towards gathering funds for families in Gaza. Which is fine, I went to another party with a similar aim months ago. But I saw many people wearing kufiyas. And I even heard some Levantine Arabic around. And after I left my jacket in the wardrobe, I realized I had forgotten to leave my star of David home! I've got used to not wearing it to parties since October last year, but this time I had rushed out of the house and forgot! I felt so awkwardly conspicuous at the coat check! So, I took it off, and put in in my sock. And proceeded to have a strange night...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Please remember, what I wanted was a night of fun with my friend, losing myself to dancing. But now I was at an event that had almost five hours of performances, related to Palestine, including a 7-minute-long silence where they asked everybody to sit down and keep still, full of lesbians that made me and my friend stand out like a sore thumb, with a too-bright darkroom that had no action, with not so great music that only started at around 3 am while we had arrived at 10pm... It was, well, it was what it was, a pro-Palestinian-activism-through-artistic-impulse lesbic-centric event. And personally that was so not what I needed. Luckily my friend looked after me and his friends were lovely. But man was that a bad call for me to go.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gb15joByEN84953Q-i2n8cTTBscacQf2qV8sKVMD_pwzdv5gLqoIcoqCRb1_eci4FVO7nfBu9k8l5KEkHUPiTcZEEChcuwVWJLAqtFsora8KPajSHEX07aaV2WIqmr1kcTsXWjmzFlZe1_KwfiWUC-1tI45oxvYQ-67waFnQIwX3qXLFryitSNiFsjul/s4032/IMG_0458.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9gb15joByEN84953Q-i2n8cTTBscacQf2qV8sKVMD_pwzdv5gLqoIcoqCRb1_eci4FVO7nfBu9k8l5KEkHUPiTcZEEChcuwVWJLAqtFsora8KPajSHEX07aaV2WIqmr1kcTsXWjmzFlZe1_KwfiWUC-1tI45oxvYQ-67waFnQIwX3qXLFryitSNiFsjul/w300-h400/IMG_0458.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVuM65Z9huIm8c805CL-5a07O-B1IPc-x4RVo2cHsVxFaXGNfd_6Oq1M3vY0C8gZ7Dv9Ascyc2GZRzRUSpYalK88QTfeger1yx_14I5GuShRuXHn7kP0wPgsXZRUfnLvWVS1lpXwGV5siVfxu4TMn8YHNF3VbAUORYEZCfOfGl6xVNVCl_kFrYtGrJkVvQ/s4032/IMG_0465.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVuM65Z9huIm8c805CL-5a07O-B1IPc-x4RVo2cHsVxFaXGNfd_6Oq1M3vY0C8gZ7Dv9Ascyc2GZRzRUSpYalK88QTfeger1yx_14I5GuShRuXHn7kP0wPgsXZRUfnLvWVS1lpXwGV5siVfxu4TMn8YHNF3VbAUORYEZCfOfGl6xVNVCl_kFrYtGrJkVvQ/w400-h300/IMG_0465.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>February 25th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We had sun! Again! What a luxury! For brunch, we sat at one of our favourite places, where I had pancakes with bacon, maple syrup and fried eggs with Tabasco sauce (yeah, all of that, together, mixed, yum!), while the sun's rays came through the window and fun music played in the background. Lovely beginning to the day! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">And since the habibi was feeling kind of sick and didn't feel like doing much, we just went for a walk in the sun at Gleisdreieck Park, and a coffee and some reading (also in the sun!). The book I'm reading now is "The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics". It's complex, it's dense, but it's also interesting!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the evening, after a nice walk in the park (same park, actually) with a friend cameraman, the habibi (now feeling slightly better) took us to see "Marlene" at the Renaissance Theater, with renowned German actor Sven Ratzke. And his homage to Marlene Dietrich was amazing! The first half was a bit hard to follow, as it was a lot of dialogue, in German. But the second part was all about her songs, and Sven did an amazing job! Marlene was so Berlin, so Weimar... what a delightful evening. I have the habibi to thank for experiences like these. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3hZ_W4FFV0sNwa523ujsuQsIe_SHEgjeM0-WQiJHVB9nElzkcVoHI48DYcGkExml9gg_ww7blXHSU93w8b6Oo3-fdiILyoeMw5Zib-fD9l1NPPnHB30iW_Bw7wnYwv3N0JnKelSTFmhm3Vuq7jxUO9mATM94TrzJkAGuuPtAkKIYoW2hkk2kxez-Ua9s/s4032/IMG_0469.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3hZ_W4FFV0sNwa523ujsuQsIe_SHEgjeM0-WQiJHVB9nElzkcVoHI48DYcGkExml9gg_ww7blXHSU93w8b6Oo3-fdiILyoeMw5Zib-fD9l1NPPnHB30iW_Bw7wnYwv3N0JnKelSTFmhm3Vuq7jxUO9mATM94TrzJkAGuuPtAkKIYoW2hkk2kxez-Ua9s/w400-h300/IMG_0469.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5M6sQjdlI3D5Tn8N513C9whq7RfKffEKVYRrIfUxvRk8NEHL-U0TeHhATzHNCWEyMhyphenhyphenYAU9PwnfYQuChgKGDWnxc33HfOr5iH3xA53qVTJ_dZECVxrdeMI2CHZXu_hE-sYNWuUGa8XZGjfyn5LZJOn858JY7d4J6Aqa3bV-jS40smvag6Cp8abvm2Urah/s4032/IMG_0470.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5M6sQjdlI3D5Tn8N513C9whq7RfKffEKVYRrIfUxvRk8NEHL-U0TeHhATzHNCWEyMhyphenhyphenYAU9PwnfYQuChgKGDWnxc33HfOr5iH3xA53qVTJ_dZECVxrdeMI2CHZXu_hE-sYNWuUGa8XZGjfyn5LZJOn858JY7d4J6Aqa3bV-jS40smvag6Cp8abvm2Urah/w300-h400/IMG_0470.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBxDwbxgqlJJVxkzySJnhjTYudpIGENeNK2XeK5ESe0yfrYwCd4xzyIqrTWve0H82dVT0Uk8Luox2N0wIRh9RIt44h-N7E0J6ZIdf4nhsBTCwb-JQGO7MiJxXa3uNLqs7EkLOGuqqYNIMGGmJ6GtLqZeyqpWbgAkAT0xqTM-HipHMxe2B8L_sgUY_xcn6/s4032/IMG_0476.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTBxDwbxgqlJJVxkzySJnhjTYudpIGENeNK2XeK5ESe0yfrYwCd4xzyIqrTWve0H82dVT0Uk8Luox2N0wIRh9RIt44h-N7E0J6ZIdf4nhsBTCwb-JQGO7MiJxXa3uNLqs7EkLOGuqqYNIMGGmJ6GtLqZeyqpWbgAkAT0xqTM-HipHMxe2B8L_sgUY_xcn6/w400-h300/IMG_0476.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyoLVi_rOIgniD-mUKUGFuKrzG9SOBr3oFkIBRevyJKVctZMbffcSKYlZBPH56HH06gZHPDOvqwRdn1kWDuV1lWdgYHDheFJJ2Wb4vz2KCztZ3gA1smRWnQOMA79gr_kMkOF_FCQnwMT_FzYv0XrNPUS16-R5u9x353btOVhhn4eDVVAm8oCE5DAlgseUe/s4032/IMG_0481.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyoLVi_rOIgniD-mUKUGFuKrzG9SOBr3oFkIBRevyJKVctZMbffcSKYlZBPH56HH06gZHPDOvqwRdn1kWDuV1lWdgYHDheFJJ2Wb4vz2KCztZ3gA1smRWnQOMA79gr_kMkOF_FCQnwMT_FzYv0XrNPUS16-R5u9x353btOVhhn4eDVVAm8oCE5DAlgseUe/w300-h400/IMG_0481.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPLuz3ZgTlHH4eswqGw7CD1125fBEYRMTA32UhMCu-hQG9eg1D-rHivhhY5NzoErnKqUylRTPLngk0CrstAuM7NcSWoucLEqzhVG9Wbu-d0ssx9mXdGHJ3MQOfHACSZHjwTZLRUJcfS4VnPNntttGS8q8gPraP-9M4L9erwr_ogwE7GPguQtWWocuokkN/s4032/IMG_0486.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPLuz3ZgTlHH4eswqGw7CD1125fBEYRMTA32UhMCu-hQG9eg1D-rHivhhY5NzoErnKqUylRTPLngk0CrstAuM7NcSWoucLEqzhVG9Wbu-d0ssx9mXdGHJ3MQOfHACSZHjwTZLRUJcfS4VnPNntttGS8q8gPraP-9M4L9erwr_ogwE7GPguQtWWocuokkN/w300-h400/IMG_0486.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p><i>February 28th</i></p><p>I just can't get enough of the birds in Tiergarten. And I finally got to see a coot really up close! Yay! Oh, and there's some guy singing K-Pop Karaoke in the park? What?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskVCOM7xTWfDYZSZQfUz7UUEMVxAL-mC-E1jtO4aowFcu9uM942H0xjldQMoK2xMWWonY4YLWod3JG_2Ag52dvikfG0ymDBAE-h6n3Ogq7Qru8LA2JsxAP-RuGGHfgMEpZiH_xEHz3mnxP2gEwuGs3BykAyZnFnNp5NGEmvGWPsSIa1Nx1FbIhH8xN-6D/s4032/IMG_0501.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskVCOM7xTWfDYZSZQfUz7UUEMVxAL-mC-E1jtO4aowFcu9uM942H0xjldQMoK2xMWWonY4YLWod3JG_2Ag52dvikfG0ymDBAE-h6n3Ogq7Qru8LA2JsxAP-RuGGHfgMEpZiH_xEHz3mnxP2gEwuGs3BykAyZnFnNp5NGEmvGWPsSIa1Nx1FbIhH8xN-6D/w400-h300/IMG_0501.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6KvUZ6UUjDrGEhwftJ18pHkvCXTDlXbmKQTeNbbFrbW4ay5IQJTql7lVq4GwR_k_shBi7BjIAMpBTqIc-R-c7S-lWxhGK2ZPT4r0T_CKrflmuavH4wegtcpqNQUUmiRLQNyDH7e6LIPWNu2j9kAtNREa_OjobYy50-XGLy7DS_GQmPU_An04QnrgV0XV/s4032/IMG_0531.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6KvUZ6UUjDrGEhwftJ18pHkvCXTDlXbmKQTeNbbFrbW4ay5IQJTql7lVq4GwR_k_shBi7BjIAMpBTqIc-R-c7S-lWxhGK2ZPT4r0T_CKrflmuavH4wegtcpqNQUUmiRLQNyDH7e6LIPWNu2j9kAtNREa_OjobYy50-XGLy7DS_GQmPU_An04QnrgV0XV/w400-h300/IMG_0531.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xvNNR5lz8Gx0pTKOB8Q8A2wavqYBjfQUsPasJLEJ_6y0_y9c4fann9xidSPiuy7NlXQtAdllpaqfXTC1ogGQw_3c3eZxTLLqu-EmtbD1dkTle9pYnrV579-T6NUp8InyhPKEXJALvSZnUzkn8H_PSOPMW1oUTKi4UQBSE0xLlkF2i2D3vlgorr1SL32d/s4032/IMG_0538.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_xvNNR5lz8Gx0pTKOB8Q8A2wavqYBjfQUsPasJLEJ_6y0_y9c4fann9xidSPiuy7NlXQtAdllpaqfXTC1ogGQw_3c3eZxTLLqu-EmtbD1dkTle9pYnrV579-T6NUp8InyhPKEXJALvSZnUzkn8H_PSOPMW1oUTKi4UQBSE0xLlkF2i2D3vlgorr1SL32d/w300-h400/IMG_0538.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p><i>February 2nd to 3rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The weekend was just marvellous. Absolutely amazing. It left me in such a nice mood! It began with another visit to the Neue Nationalgalerie, where we saw a couple more rooms, one called Nature & Culture, with really nice pieces that were reflections of artists on a damaged environment. It included using materials like leaves and flowers, rocks, wood, metals worked in rough ways... And then the other room was called Analogue Systems, obviously with art influenced by machines and computers, including some that was generated and designed exclusively through a computer, with the artist only serving as a "flesh arm" to translate that design into an oil painting. We were truly seeing art of its time, eh?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5o1xbFJWtLv9ktriPIhAVtLzPufiENjt9gd8Izt_MQTuXb_ciKF3isQzSRo6GVQqLv-21UzjPm9cjEYukwWdFfhBAgs2bHnvk02ty-M4dqG2lf8mkD6rSsI-KOiYKb_nWgjK_jIlB4181KOtJdAaKZi5VL1Tikj7p7MeMDmXbyO4B8QJM6Smg-A6xFSP/s4032/IMG_0576.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT5o1xbFJWtLv9ktriPIhAVtLzPufiENjt9gd8Izt_MQTuXb_ciKF3isQzSRo6GVQqLv-21UzjPm9cjEYukwWdFfhBAgs2bHnvk02ty-M4dqG2lf8mkD6rSsI-KOiYKb_nWgjK_jIlB4181KOtJdAaKZi5VL1Tikj7p7MeMDmXbyO4B8QJM6Smg-A6xFSP/w300-h400/IMG_0576.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dTY06HI4IzMzEs6z1gnCFueTLr_hi1JTDZ8ki4KYjdOatQz1HT3BFTdlWL4TgV5Xw1ol8j4p_BboTkw1p2c1-yjk4vhG2ETZKTAvH9KnlPEhw00MZIDtgsKKHj17kW9Z39wWhrwvARnqIUeg3v3VNiyoYhfQezY5QiwOgYGsdqGjhDUQxIQBDjUO5vCY/s4032/IMG_0580.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Fresh oysters from Île d'Oléron, with sparkling wine. And I was so happy. The oysters were massive, and absolutely delicious. I just love them so much! Such a perfect lunch. Followed by... reading, coffee and cake at Coffee Cult. Nice coffee, nice cake. But that's not a surprise, right? I'm liking my book on black technopoetics. It was a hard read at the beginning, but I think I'm managing to follow the author's arguments to wherever he intends to lead me. And after this, we finished the day's activities with a beer at BRLO by Gleisdreieck Park, because they've finally opened again! Sure, it's not quite yet outdoor biergarten weather, but we're getting close to it, and we were happy to get a beer there at last.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWqlg3MWQp5BZmPNV73xC7Rd9WswwtztLgSIMTepcXwNYEr311F_Mqic9xjH4mrlyFz12faE0X6KLvOYIAd4vo_KPxwvn5vAEO-A87TmsmzILj4lGDXL99LsYT1Pug7X-L_aWbfI2yc6bo13ldPsIlX4P3Y7KXWcTq6tDDYQ1JhP-lH6dlDsmgvrLF9UbS/s4032/IMG_0599.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWqlg3MWQp5BZmPNV73xC7Rd9WswwtztLgSIMTepcXwNYEr311F_Mqic9xjH4mrlyFz12faE0X6KLvOYIAd4vo_KPxwvn5vAEO-A87TmsmzILj4lGDXL99LsYT1Pug7X-L_aWbfI2yc6bo13ldPsIlX4P3Y7KXWcTq6tDDYQ1JhP-lH6dlDsmgvrLF9UbS/w400-h300/IMG_0599.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigt_m8iopE7Ov2Krb0KlkN6-kjz3J22Mo1SVmLl0GvUAJrvGKgOGaFS__St_LZ4KEipgdGoDxavWpiqIkXQVL5XF-_Pe9SxolAAp_C1QTcDag6hGyvE-vuAcBa6Oj6_c-zmwrWeQ3btrAVcCTdyLZ_ewqLDmlp6FM6AJRHjCFhL0vVXSNwulZagufL9Al8/s4032/IMG_0602.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigt_m8iopE7Ov2Krb0KlkN6-kjz3J22Mo1SVmLl0GvUAJrvGKgOGaFS__St_LZ4KEipgdGoDxavWpiqIkXQVL5XF-_Pe9SxolAAp_C1QTcDag6hGyvE-vuAcBa6Oj6_c-zmwrWeQ3btrAVcCTdyLZ_ewqLDmlp6FM6AJRHjCFhL0vVXSNwulZagufL9Al8/w400-h300/IMG_0602.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKSKy3s3wisCSZFeheQVigDjoi50v4_U3Nq_TOb2OMXq5dJ4j1ds4W35w2HjmfBm5xdd_LA5r6CVDIoXgrGNKy6plGF1eU7chNeU9YPgtYEiaA4VRW07BmK4lLpA9oYbM3_3GWr1yd8R1cL0PuP70nlqCli4DeS4fAQxAjjT7AKiU-qq3xBBRNUBZQbo_z/s4032/IMG_0604.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKSKy3s3wisCSZFeheQVigDjoi50v4_U3Nq_TOb2OMXq5dJ4j1ds4W35w2HjmfBm5xdd_LA5r6CVDIoXgrGNKy6plGF1eU7chNeU9YPgtYEiaA4VRW07BmK4lLpA9oYbM3_3GWr1yd8R1cL0PuP70nlqCli4DeS4fAQxAjjT7AKiU-qq3xBBRNUBZQbo_z/w300-h400/IMG_0604.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">And Saturday night? Oh, what a night. A friend of mine broke up with his girlfriend. So, another friend and me met with him at his place, for drinks. Then another friend of his arrived. And we had so many espresso martinis! Too many. And then at around 1 am I took them to Ficken 3000, a smallish gay bar with a dancefloor on the ground floor and a maze for drinking, drugs and sex (let's be honest, that's what it's there for, and that's what people use it for) underground. And a bud of mine from the Staatsballett was there as well. And we had a blast! I think we stayed until 4am or later? At which point the friend that had broken up decided we should go to a place with better music - Kater Blau. I had never been there, my other friend neither, and so we headed to this very straight but very cool space with awesome music. By 7am, though, I was done, and I really needed to go home. And I got there at 8am, I think. Thoroughly happy. Such a nice night, so much love. And this was just Saturday, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBndRmxf-XdkhRZ6SGdFXjWGpDXO7fuMHb1oE1QzNEg3prAxc_I-Y_78xhymHNFFZNF_8c6BiZ-s_baVmtehothuBe1h6PEwTGSHA4zowV4pGPGv2dKpRAjMZE1QiuLwqNzexkN1JlAgN5pXdGQeUCGYw7Eq7aRH1O3OW2Cqid6FEchY307CzOQhyj2-Rz/s4032/IMG_0607.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBndRmxf-XdkhRZ6SGdFXjWGpDXO7fuMHb1oE1QzNEg3prAxc_I-Y_78xhymHNFFZNF_8c6BiZ-s_baVmtehothuBe1h6PEwTGSHA4zowV4pGPGv2dKpRAjMZE1QiuLwqNzexkN1JlAgN5pXdGQeUCGYw7Eq7aRH1O3OW2Cqid6FEchY307CzOQhyj2-Rz/w400-h300/IMG_0607.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday began with brunch - English breakfast at The Alchemist. They had run out of sausages, so they offered us instead... spicy Spanish chorizo! And that was way better! We were not ready to go far and explore, so we just went nearby, to the Gemäldegalerie for a special exhibition at the Kupferstichkabinett - Die Gerettete Moderne ("the rescued modern"). The name didn't say much to us, until we finally entered and read a more detailed text explaining that, when the Nazis started confiscating art they deemed degenerate, and when they got to the Kupferstichkabinett, they put a lot of "degenerate" art in crates. But then, the curator, Willy Römer, together with an assistant, took the courageous decision to swiftly substitute some 700 pieces of art with other, less important ones, therefore saving them from the Nazis. And the exhibition we were enjoying was comprised of the saved works of art! Wow! What a privilege!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was so much incredible art. By Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Beckmann, Ernst Barlach, Käthe Kollwitz, Kandinsky, Picasso, Matisse, Munch... What a treasure. And the German works, so expressionistic, so intense, so critical... 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And that was just so nice. It was a small group, and I got to practice my German (I was the only one who didn't speak German natively or at a very high-level of proficiency, and it felt silly to have everybody use English just because of me, so I asked the group to feel at ease and use German), eat sushi, and just enjoy a nice relaxed night.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Curiously, the street where my friend lives used to be a very Jewish street, and so there are Stolpersteine all over. It was sort of fitting, that so many decades after the horror, queer Jews were getting together to celebrate on that same street. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1sbZqceAxSF61sSgQSc-0we2awvKOjgIGd5TFhgEISoJ-grgQhThPz7a0VSxWZBl_eI4YG85Lei64TOI9ALmcGCuezaVzUZK4xlaf10JVOiT2Qkkni69sCq8kjRytsBUqlvelAiqOVQGhz5QDm-iJd7PP1Z6_AmTKmw_Vw-TPouMenNtbQ-jySFirBv4/s4032/IMG_0653.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1sbZqceAxSF61sSgQSc-0we2awvKOjgIGd5TFhgEISoJ-grgQhThPz7a0VSxWZBl_eI4YG85Lei64TOI9ALmcGCuezaVzUZK4xlaf10JVOiT2Qkkni69sCq8kjRytsBUqlvelAiqOVQGhz5QDm-iJd7PP1Z6_AmTKmw_Vw-TPouMenNtbQ-jySFirBv4/w400-h300/IMG_0653.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgdPMKu1vJFU-8M9QgdZx0qPUBSE9O_X86Vuayj3XZM7gti1f4rXY80ngPeMg9gBmfmSQZk4cBbJ4LOV3OWSct3lFiz1Hl5XhZycUgO3XXap_bm7Ym8Wr2O9-AN06AUj64u0uJnIJr85sZITbnbNquinFv7Y8hDDtQJdLpyOUKLtYJVPEvauN0uRQUbOF/s4032/IMG_0655.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgdPMKu1vJFU-8M9QgdZx0qPUBSE9O_X86Vuayj3XZM7gti1f4rXY80ngPeMg9gBmfmSQZk4cBbJ4LOV3OWSct3lFiz1Hl5XhZycUgO3XXap_bm7Ym8Wr2O9-AN06AUj64u0uJnIJr85sZITbnbNquinFv7Y8hDDtQJdLpyOUKLtYJVPEvauN0uRQUbOF/w400-h300/IMG_0655.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">So, yeah, just a simply awesome weekend.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-18530343856463034882024-02-19T17:40:00.001+08:002024-02-19T17:40:05.992+08:00Lap Chun, or Beginning of Spring and Happy New Year of the Dragon!<p><i>these are some highlights</i><i> of our life in Berlin during Lap Chun 立春 (February 4th to 18th)</i></p><p><i>February 4th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We found this Polish café called Katulki, where we had nice cake and coffee, and where I kept reading the very last part of my Three Body problem - Death's End novel! It's a cozy place, and we could hear many people speaking Polish, so I guess we should come back here not just for the cake, coffee and atmosphere, but for real Polish cuisine!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlHuro8kzQMbDsa5gSgCiztLHLzQyZHl_YAKs19nyFQrWRVz2hYZBFizQ9Z2f8VC9tijPMjSSfIwC-nhh1KKps-KZhTAkCAh0lyG0uWzsDyy71tOCR_jtG0K-8xV61O50o0Q8uPP3ki85EBbiCSJQ6jfo5xNBOf1CLkXRonriGDedPsbPRGdr98JAGtLd/s4032/IMG_0148.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYlHuro8kzQMbDsa5gSgCiztLHLzQyZHl_YAKs19nyFQrWRVz2hYZBFizQ9Z2f8VC9tijPMjSSfIwC-nhh1KKps-KZhTAkCAh0lyG0uWzsDyy71tOCR_jtG0K-8xV61O50o0Q8uPP3ki85EBbiCSJQ6jfo5xNBOf1CLkXRonriGDedPsbPRGdr98JAGtLd/w400-h300/IMG_0148.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p><i>February 5th - 7th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tiergarten has been offering lots of encounters with birds! Mandarin ducks, swans, coot, ducks, blackbirds, cranes... So charming.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq8M-QK3JxkSUk_seJz6wpkw2-fsVfx6dlLjIz7b-AZjnTIdGF61ys1uPSIGvDP3mdCWmsTBWJ2QplzSVUwqQNFxR16sJaFqtxKaz0OIMb7NELJx7DH6cfoSKCHeCPSpVilMOhkiAh75NJzFYqPRRIcwTNpK-ctn4tUQ2nZ1kkaS1moHb8XcIIzJdFNXZ7/s1394/Screenshot%202024-02-14%20at%2010.28.30%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="818" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq8M-QK3JxkSUk_seJz6wpkw2-fsVfx6dlLjIz7b-AZjnTIdGF61ys1uPSIGvDP3mdCWmsTBWJ2QplzSVUwqQNFxR16sJaFqtxKaz0OIMb7NELJx7DH6cfoSKCHeCPSpVilMOhkiAh75NJzFYqPRRIcwTNpK-ctn4tUQ2nZ1kkaS1moHb8XcIIzJdFNXZ7/w235-h400/Screenshot%202024-02-14%20at%2010.28.30%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg" width="235" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ngMWK3Vz42Sjy39Oh2B_5hYBCB7SC-nmBKmhCSg3p1kPIxkfPmBh7N_Z0BsJOzFJO9aYhyxoxh4dvaRUjBexETrsE2bmDbiiJN0BWWHKFNAMMNQPVxXOir5V1WewZi09EYr6mlhiApkITKYjAT5vkEQGmZGcAUupCI76Mks-xdxmtNu6pAVHhPwmhTZe/s4032/IMG_0162.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ngMWK3Vz42Sjy39Oh2B_5hYBCB7SC-nmBKmhCSg3p1kPIxkfPmBh7N_Z0BsJOzFJO9aYhyxoxh4dvaRUjBexETrsE2bmDbiiJN0BWWHKFNAMMNQPVxXOir5V1WewZi09EYr6mlhiApkITKYjAT5vkEQGmZGcAUupCI76Mks-xdxmtNu6pAVHhPwmhTZe/w400-h300/IMG_0162.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p><i>February 9th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, so, hate-watched the CCTV Chinese New Year Gala. Again. Well, parts of it, when it was closer to midnight in China. The funny thing is, despite the usually very creepy minority musical parts where they rub intensely on your face how minorities are immensely happy (despite all the restrictions groups like Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongols face), there are many parts that actually move me. I got so excited when the Canton Tower appeared in a song about China! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, yeah, we've lived so many years there. And I still get excited about the new year. And I've seen plenty to understand that China is a place you really have to allow for nuance to understand... </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUB0GegSoW4NiXj8npHuLf4vv2FULyFzhtZfK4MIqgL3vIsHZJJzMFHD0nH5mQmNtuGYAxzJfJs_PhQp1ol4zDKsYWtdliA9dBb00djwJkJwKnxIVRERkOK7PW_JrDmdRARCroeGK2P3tcVC8OuLwN9oIZdz0Pv6KsNdQ_7ZU-3NibrVtyzRQ8nmVR7QZ/s4032/IMG_0180.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPUB0GegSoW4NiXj8npHuLf4vv2FULyFzhtZfK4MIqgL3vIsHZJJzMFHD0nH5mQmNtuGYAxzJfJs_PhQp1ol4zDKsYWtdliA9dBb00djwJkJwKnxIVRERkOK7PW_JrDmdRARCroeGK2P3tcVC8OuLwN9oIZdz0Pv6KsNdQ_7ZU-3NibrVtyzRQ8nmVR7QZ/w400-h300/IMG_0180.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpH4Al9TS0Is8Rr_ARvQ4y9SpJWiDDDaeTAE07GzLcNGlOysvNod6zbE3oi1PmjST4JrIY4h6bvJgJ9h7FpPErnB3mAd-qQZwPSlLKagJ7-bE2FV_Z6IeG3e2XVXq70mHZI6yLuLh-LzgxdJZQsqTsqcRGOL5WbDaKINHcqGBti5TvIuQZ8R5bqK1zz1U/s4032/IMG_0186.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpH4Al9TS0Is8Rr_ARvQ4y9SpJWiDDDaeTAE07GzLcNGlOysvNod6zbE3oi1PmjST4JrIY4h6bvJgJ9h7FpPErnB3mAd-qQZwPSlLKagJ7-bE2FV_Z6IeG3e2XVXq70mHZI6yLuLh-LzgxdJZQsqTsqcRGOL5WbDaKINHcqGBti5TvIuQZ8R5bqK1zz1U/w400-h300/IMG_0186.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qXW0QGX8VUB7ceYFEfM8QFep9l5BFzSkP7ZyoNjE2TxnyqhohuS_QN-qCeef-3cQdp33oqtRuuY_kbATnVwmmPgo4AV2HjyD3mbEue7OXFrzxQsN8QBawFiWAM7OQQ8X1Gn-SSuPaLIzmgg06fHY8EF3XpNmH9VMCi0rtChVvERD1YXMUxEfa22WQdxs/s4032/IMG_0190.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qXW0QGX8VUB7ceYFEfM8QFep9l5BFzSkP7ZyoNjE2TxnyqhohuS_QN-qCeef-3cQdp33oqtRuuY_kbATnVwmmPgo4AV2HjyD3mbEue7OXFrzxQsN8QBawFiWAM7OQQ8X1Gn-SSuPaLIzmgg06fHY8EF3XpNmH9VMCi0rtChVvERD1YXMUxEfa22WQdxs/w400-h300/IMG_0190.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">That night, excited because of the show, I decided I'd go to the Chinese supermarket on my way home, and I got us stuff for a simple but yummy dimmer! Got dumplings, got wonton, got grass jelly with beans and coconut milk, got persimmons, got flaky pastries filled with rose and nuts... Then I set Chinese New Year music... and we had our Spring Festival mini-celebration at home! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxCz6qn_sId7P8o-uUJhLgKyvCymWq0EL2P-bVlPgf1mgAf7cF_UOqGJs5hQjpfbQRFValnTFucgwyisk3BsO3Nk_YFNnyhEoqJZXreruKo_qsss0HhyphenhyphennIyYlQQwUEhJO-bYN7dL060DXX0J05S2lc2EurbERQ5RWOv_-54g92KVgss_HLV2dbBXK7Pv1/s4032/IMG_0193.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxCz6qn_sId7P8o-uUJhLgKyvCymWq0EL2P-bVlPgf1mgAf7cF_UOqGJs5hQjpfbQRFValnTFucgwyisk3BsO3Nk_YFNnyhEoqJZXreruKo_qsss0HhyphenhyphennIyYlQQwUEhJO-bYN7dL060DXX0J05S2lc2EurbERQ5RWOv_-54g92KVgss_HLV2dbBXK7Pv1/w400-h300/IMG_0193.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffWxa7zzh0bnRABg_btTN8N1SSEtLY68oa5bxF0wY1EbP5SXFSeHRhs784H6fbwZuEgjKE7XRSUt8uc8P3gq5jndNtu97eNSG_-12mEt0GUPN1yv025aBwnJ4qg1FdHUlqW-_mW_22MD0lDqH7rauNlncoOh3OvJgyMIu5Cj7j_GbaFtjcl9hK2BQZT8V/s4032/IMG_0196.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffWxa7zzh0bnRABg_btTN8N1SSEtLY68oa5bxF0wY1EbP5SXFSeHRhs784H6fbwZuEgjKE7XRSUt8uc8P3gq5jndNtu97eNSG_-12mEt0GUPN1yv025aBwnJ4qg1FdHUlqW-_mW_22MD0lDqH7rauNlncoOh3OvJgyMIu5Cj7j_GbaFtjcl9hK2BQZT8V/w400-h300/IMG_0196.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">February 10th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We visited the Neue Nationalgalerie again, now to see art from the fifties, sixties and seventies. After our previous visit, which dealt with the darkness and political tensions of post-WWII Europe and the US, it was refreshing to see artists getting playful in a different direction with materials, colours, modes of expression (Licio Fontana and his slashed paintings; Robert Rauschenberg and his Pink Door; Christo and his windows)... </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We made it all the way to Pop Art, where of course we had to see a couple of Warhol's, a fascinating video by Keiichi Tanaami (田名網敬一) called Good-by Marilyn (サヨナラ.マリリン.モンロー), with music by Hirayama Miki (平山三紀), a very peculiar and eroticized homage to Monroe. Curiously queer-looking and happy Soviet cosmonauts, a creepy ode to progress from a Czech artist, and a little pig with the colours of Germany's flag and a swastika on its back completed this room. I'm loving this new permanent exhibition.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglWPyvtWOULcb5UVDgi5N4JgmwodlGCK4FJBwEh2qU4fyovj3DvPHppmpE034OZv8UwnvqLDTKp-UUQGhHVMwaq-rDkoKChFfBbZN8fUDDplWEktherSDmdBqDwT1sNikUQazVwV_yUZ5odhIMoBCMx4MeRDK-GFU_htzS-HotocA8-UnE97zyagKk3GO4/s4032/IMG_0223.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglWPyvtWOULcb5UVDgi5N4JgmwodlGCK4FJBwEh2qU4fyovj3DvPHppmpE034OZv8UwnvqLDTKp-UUQGhHVMwaq-rDkoKChFfBbZN8fUDDplWEktherSDmdBqDwT1sNikUQazVwV_yUZ5odhIMoBCMx4MeRDK-GFU_htzS-HotocA8-UnE97zyagKk3GO4/w300-h400/IMG_0223.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUW3esRXqdxt_ebW0KnQSPYzLkUoecMXq1RifeBlYfhUkegBRfXIoKqeArepDT4Y9DKMF9JqBhenR3hWQuTEgKFhfi-RJhYRjxSTr0Tu6rRYntTrCcL0Qdw0RWbburLth9CUg0b9l3nG9kGMl7X1-UZaIqQr3MsGQqOI5Ca2OONc1H6TEruJg8Gl2rrEQ/s4032/IMG_0225.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwtesG5fAtpZ1a5Up5cH9hiR_emJpDRyj4N3iAdcb80qTD2Osh29oq4JcLvMRjydUoaj8AGYyJWOf8JYstp48U8ZR2aqmt50b-Wb2XRC55E6jgoGMnqtedz6kRz4bdhEBys6auOYtonq8iVAXkI17CBitozWbDBGFSy44_lGr2KtKgufGz5v6LmkdXR9I/w300-h400/IMG_0252.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">And at night? I went to Cocktail d'Amore at Club Ost. This was a queer, liberating party with good music, delightful people, and enough good energy to keep me dancing from midnight to 8am. And this time I went on my own, as nobody was available to go with me. And I still made new friends!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr3Sb_U2YUW4Wf7s-ljoyJ3SFrtzqu_-YlLA1QPVCYKnW5UXyS9EA7KHdfD7o1FxsY3wmxAKQcsep89PYmuTKt5_IdOWRjUXhakfJlaqW1pPgGKaxXWN5pVAgi3NVjuJYe5ce2zbOfElfO5wMu8kcBhWkqsD56ujVs4Tj6wYxDR1VIOFz-oNUYs83hZur9/s1553/IMG_0262.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1553" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr3Sb_U2YUW4Wf7s-ljoyJ3SFrtzqu_-YlLA1QPVCYKnW5UXyS9EA7KHdfD7o1FxsY3wmxAKQcsep89PYmuTKt5_IdOWRjUXhakfJlaqW1pPgGKaxXWN5pVAgi3NVjuJYe5ce2zbOfElfO5wMu8kcBhWkqsD56ujVs4Tj6wYxDR1VIOFz-oNUYs83hZur9/w320-h400/IMG_0262.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicz0VGJyqQo8Eskuurj5vuJ3i_p3ZwyRx8uo2UZXYhyFpuw6MA0WaGBvF4xYdeeAu3BOwEKTVmkDeM5M0Kuc57o1FY_3TcxX4NMAMMNwD3SVxzKru5q9Gl5NRu-vo9Gv5O44yXEv6fRCo2A7-jerlCafpI8_Wn-grRejXC9QO_eYuotCHsDK8z7meXUwKq/s4032/IMG_0267.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicz0VGJyqQo8Eskuurj5vuJ3i_p3ZwyRx8uo2UZXYhyFpuw6MA0WaGBvF4xYdeeAu3BOwEKTVmkDeM5M0Kuc57o1FY_3TcxX4NMAMMNwD3SVxzKru5q9Gl5NRu-vo9Gv5O44yXEv6fRCo2A7-jerlCafpI8_Wn-grRejXC9QO_eYuotCHsDK8z7meXUwKq/w400-h300/IMG_0267.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>February 11th</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">So, yeah, we can't seem to stop going to Ming Dynasty (大明) for Chinese food, right? And well, Chinese New Year extends over several days, so this visit was completely justified! This time we had Yangzhou fried rice (揚州炒飯), red oil dumplings (紅油水餃), and mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐). Not disappointed at all. At all. So good. And to think I'd end up loving fried rice? After living in Peking but before living in Canton, I would have never believed it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiFkvPWT_SiL_pTq5BOhJ19pidLmS0Gihk12jM551hu5N2Yyfh-7YaggmfSlvB0l6gzMpxLlJQJGqPMndmt1uKZrDi6RzTi56R-85rbF7bQxAQLgXO6VEjCEc7IXMgR30btb6rbwunpdamMtzlgYhKR1HRECg9XOVDVFHvNfOR7q51Ys2QP4-IEsYSVfW/s4032/IMG_0272.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiFkvPWT_SiL_pTq5BOhJ19pidLmS0Gihk12jM551hu5N2Yyfh-7YaggmfSlvB0l6gzMpxLlJQJGqPMndmt1uKZrDi6RzTi56R-85rbF7bQxAQLgXO6VEjCEc7IXMgR30btb6rbwunpdamMtzlgYhKR1HRECg9XOVDVFHvNfOR7q51Ys2QP4-IEsYSVfW/w400-h300/IMG_0272.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>February 14th</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Tiergarten was full of birds! They were by the shore. I don't know why, but there were so many kinds! Mute swans, American coots, mallard ducks, mandarin ducks, tufted ducks, crows... The tufted ducks were doing their typical plunges, so swift and cute; the coots were making the most unusual click-like sounds; and the male mandarin ducks were showing off and competing against each other. So lovely to watch! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYij1QTFkuTpe2QKgpfWzhyuKjo9YrJ6cr3y7Ylq7ZSCpcA_mBQf1Q8pL3IFOoGii0ETkNFW9QK1r2ctFxC_ExIrD-BuqMz9GNMKHxy1bmfSq-BaGaw1H0yp7_zuPaK4P0qeS3ruAoa9KSXez5sWhm7PcKjsdYUDuyDxSHwLiKZv_ucoWdF2nac8hj0TNV/s4032/IMG_0287.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYij1QTFkuTpe2QKgpfWzhyuKjo9YrJ6cr3y7Ylq7ZSCpcA_mBQf1Q8pL3IFOoGii0ETkNFW9QK1r2ctFxC_ExIrD-BuqMz9GNMKHxy1bmfSq-BaGaw1H0yp7_zuPaK4P0qeS3ruAoa9KSXez5sWhm7PcKjsdYUDuyDxSHwLiKZv_ucoWdF2nac8hj0TNV/w300-h400/IMG_0287.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7zaFbJjXmmYuw7JxQTwOJ_9ZwQO6fJ3n4GxsjEfTfoYsaHSS0NAz5nCdv0ZH-yPrIslVLCe98HfniVY61sXW1yMSH0bp7hna726ZT1YbNdlMfucBdDHul-ib7S-CLPPRVb1b36p8GO3T0oCYa-1yDllXJBCKDykHInF8F5LPkcTvJei7IeghYasbQdj3/s4032/IMG_0289.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7zaFbJjXmmYuw7JxQTwOJ_9ZwQO6fJ3n4GxsjEfTfoYsaHSS0NAz5nCdv0ZH-yPrIslVLCe98HfniVY61sXW1yMSH0bp7hna726ZT1YbNdlMfucBdDHul-ib7S-CLPPRVb1b36p8GO3T0oCYa-1yDllXJBCKDykHInF8F5LPkcTvJei7IeghYasbQdj3/w300-h400/IMG_0289.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>February 17th</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This day was a fun and wonderful Saturday. I had received some gorgeous flowers as a thank-you for an event I helped organize, and the habibi set them around our home, and it just looked amazing! I really really loved the colour of these flowers! Also, this day I was handing over my two Keshet yarmulkes to the Jewish Museum, as they are doing some exhibition about queer Jewish Berlin or something (not entirely sure). Before taking them, I thought it would be nice to take a picture of them next to our menorah, which the habibi bought a bit ago and which I think is so beautiful. And then I spent some fun moments recording a vid of me humbly bragging about finally finishing reading the Three Body Problem trilogy in Chinese, because not only it was one tough job, but also because I managed to do it before Netflix airs the series on March 21st! Also, notice there was sunlight? Such a nice morning!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbPRFVgVUuYzBUbXl_YRoKcYvV2Xx6Pn3S5p7ggcZ9OxraofzQivNcg8aolYtF04rdAW2EVgbUpa8WFDoglhyphenhyphen6Fq9bsaeLT6vZtdFwCgJhRi-KWknBTR4bbASqEoLTHr-MZPl3iePNgr62DfoFYyUXR09wEVENs9gHm9MFXbO1C733tldIici5WJXuYXo/s3801/IMG_0313.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3801" data-original-width="2928" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbPRFVgVUuYzBUbXl_YRoKcYvV2Xx6Pn3S5p7ggcZ9OxraofzQivNcg8aolYtF04rdAW2EVgbUpa8WFDoglhyphenhyphen6Fq9bsaeLT6vZtdFwCgJhRi-KWknBTR4bbASqEoLTHr-MZPl3iePNgr62DfoFYyUXR09wEVENs9gHm9MFXbO1C733tldIici5WJXuYXo/w309-h400/IMG_0313.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeIb35In35_xpMnSXIfdMa6NBWQ4siJy6zosmfw_qRes0jhpSS49StN_ktg9cxA9Ph632eLHkSXvQr6NiYIKY9gk1Ggdj7WDIbGmCNfNOal2kS4hwiCdrzG2EzVIG9WNF3l2jiQIFrZuE07hSYGUujgSI5yOT9FPSvt2uz7BQ6fpVIDk6PuG5kM-MaJdS/s4032/IMG_0315.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeIb35In35_xpMnSXIfdMa6NBWQ4siJy6zosmfw_qRes0jhpSS49StN_ktg9cxA9Ph632eLHkSXvQr6NiYIKY9gk1Ggdj7WDIbGmCNfNOal2kS4hwiCdrzG2EzVIG9WNF3l2jiQIFrZuE07hSYGUujgSI5yOT9FPSvt2uz7BQ6fpVIDk6PuG5kM-MaJdS/w400-h300/IMG_0315.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1FDHVXx4mrc2qxPM3Fx7hoHMXw_4GVV33RP-DoKcvxuKEtLGXih2FI4dMzmMdajdn3weDss0gwz_wQ6QOXH-_-b6F3y1XWQe6XlCzZIUbUf6-WQv7Qf2OCH1awmuksnH2cTfrNbGO7XquiIVn26uOaeLjqxZhcdJxNNhaDdRHGUPWqb4hSzOkrHPpBVv/s4032/IMG_0328.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC1FDHVXx4mrc2qxPM3Fx7hoHMXw_4GVV33RP-DoKcvxuKEtLGXih2FI4dMzmMdajdn3weDss0gwz_wQ6QOXH-_-b6F3y1XWQe6XlCzZIUbUf6-WQv7Qf2OCH1awmuksnH2cTfrNbGO7XquiIVn26uOaeLjqxZhcdJxNNhaDdRHGUPWqb4hSzOkrHPpBVv/w400-h300/IMG_0328.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And the day just kept its nice mood all over. After the Jewish Museum we went exploring around, and we ended up passing by a Humana second-hand clothes store, where I found a nice blue T for me for like 4 euros? Then, nearby, there was a comics shop (Grober Unfug), where we found a version of a novel by Lovecraft by Gou Tanabe (田邊剛), done manga style! Like, it even reads from right to left! Of course we had to buy that! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Not far from there, we came across Marheineke Markthalle, an indoor market with so much delicious stuff from different countries and regions! There was Portuguese food, a Bretonian place, a French one with oysters and wine, a tapas place, Italian cafés... Oh, and a bakery that sold this very Slavic huge bread, Laib! We have got to head back there! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And right outside? A sci-fi and fantasy bookshop! I absolutely had to get in, if just to honour my years as a kid reading fantasy novels! But then I found a book ("Africa Risen") with speculative fiction from Africa, and since I'm reading "The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics", I thought this other book would complement it nicely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And finally, before we went back home, we stopped at RoB, a leather and fetish gear place, where I had seen some awesome super-high boots, and I wanted the habibi's opinion. And now I'm the owner of a pair of leather super-high boots at a pretty reasonable price! Yay! Can't wait to party in those!</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEQ8kU6TtJgznddyMQQwF_zWv4Kas2wzfDqr91SXlbKajQWdnrx-6kESwxvS2ANTSBNxeApKAmqyXlSZ12qLpMmF9wkQWB5uOtTkX0-5wKvTAd0NYupt7DQ50Fje5TaEnv7ZgsV0BYu6oplFeaLaDTYv7QpNGxtwr6UUS-YnJYQiKx3QG5gThBcFji1k_/s4032/IMG_0338.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEQ8kU6TtJgznddyMQQwF_zWv4Kas2wzfDqr91SXlbKajQWdnrx-6kESwxvS2ANTSBNxeApKAmqyXlSZ12qLpMmF9wkQWB5uOtTkX0-5wKvTAd0NYupt7DQ50Fje5TaEnv7ZgsV0BYu6oplFeaLaDTYv7QpNGxtwr6UUS-YnJYQiKx3QG5gThBcFji1k_/w400-h300/IMG_0338.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnT7MSUjxLgQLtWmGHNsmPKaKImY8oecijhUfabBbGYl4J_sANXHdJfS9AnCqESbCQSl914m__nD-9KaGVNHHMp5n0P3AUdG4RSUFUsndxmGzOVmnf_OymM8BcmQMDnlSXOrMzcPOqLK3OXGn5i-Bqnl9HL8feCmZqFqvAKHo2eBqh4yov80zeTfjdLTS/s4032/IMG_0339.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZnT7MSUjxLgQLtWmGHNsmPKaKImY8oecijhUfabBbGYl4J_sANXHdJfS9AnCqESbCQSl914m__nD-9KaGVNHHMp5n0P3AUdG4RSUFUsndxmGzOVmnf_OymM8BcmQMDnlSXOrMzcPOqLK3OXGn5i-Bqnl9HL8feCmZqFqvAKHo2eBqh4yov80zeTfjdLTS/w400-h300/IMG_0339.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oUGoZ-DO5HHw5QLiA4XO5fTIahlC3PG2QTn_O7_SUaaVScluT6nN0VJK8oLQHfCrscWfNRF8tu6_gngYAA-aaxSx2bPeOyPW8DtNUf_C-4NPG-Ar2KiJvRHk2ttKfYEgjX3xuMMyAoLtmilM1xdbzVosW0juSdZsANOa3t_EVHWG8ggH-ePYMcha9UW6/s3817/IMG_0345.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2862" data-original-width="3817" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oUGoZ-DO5HHw5QLiA4XO5fTIahlC3PG2QTn_O7_SUaaVScluT6nN0VJK8oLQHfCrscWfNRF8tu6_gngYAA-aaxSx2bPeOyPW8DtNUf_C-4NPG-Ar2KiJvRHk2ttKfYEgjX3xuMMyAoLtmilM1xdbzVosW0juSdZsANOa3t_EVHWG8ggH-ePYMcha9UW6/w400-h300/IMG_0345.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-34525452077936089592024-02-04T16:43:00.001+08:002024-02-04T16:43:28.110+08:00Tai Hon, or Major Cold and Surrealism vs Josephine Baker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>this is a summary of our life in Berlin during Tai Hon </i></span><i>大寒</i><span style="text-align: left;"><i> (January 20th to February 3rd)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>January 20th</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This was such a good Saturday. First of all, we have finally found a good Chinese restaurant! I had Ming Dynasty (大明) on my list of places to try. And since Chinese New Year is coming up in February, I was feeling the pressure to find a proper place for a New Year's dinner. Sure, it's in a mall (Europa Center), and it looks touristy. And they did give us a fork and knife right away when they brought us our plates. But the staff was nice and, once I finished ordering in Chinese, they said "You're going to want chopsticks, right?". I don't know, I thought that was cute. But the most important thing? The food! We got boiled fish with Sichuan peppers (水煮魚), fried flat noodles with beef (乾炒牛河), and bok choy with mushrooms Shanghai-style (香菇菜心). It was delicious! And it tasted like what it should! Yay! We finally hit the jackpot! We were so so happy,!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Afterwards, we had a nice walk, and then we went to a café called Fräulein Wild, in Kottbusser Tor, for a read, and for some good coffee and delicious cake! I had a Mississipi Mudcake, the habibi a lime baiser, and I kept going at my Three Body Problem novel (三體,死神永生). On March 21st Netflix will premier its version of the first book in the trilogy, and I'm pushing hard to finish reading the third and final book before then!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Finally, I think I may have found a way to renew part of my wardrobe with funky colourful items that should last me longer than fast-fashion brands. We went to a second-hand shop (Humana), and I got a cute green jacket for 8 euros! Hopefully I'll be equally lucky next time I go have a look?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2j32jattCYHkPUk_pdLjBa3Z8iOvrKFNDowPGpb_bslSKcW5wfsY0iQOWpHcQBfMbVzsO3dqO4X19ZvB_f7dS9dd0vaCzod0164OAiu1kJy75rt-fbUcrLCUjvSlmgte7dDOxGOdNay6z1-PQ28okrWWp4Hcu6cJyD7uvWAef306m9XKmFk_wY2VBhyd2/s4032/IMG_9721.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2j32jattCYHkPUk_pdLjBa3Z8iOvrKFNDowPGpb_bslSKcW5wfsY0iQOWpHcQBfMbVzsO3dqO4X19ZvB_f7dS9dd0vaCzod0164OAiu1kJy75rt-fbUcrLCUjvSlmgte7dDOxGOdNay6z1-PQ28okrWWp4Hcu6cJyD7uvWAef306m9XKmFk_wY2VBhyd2/w400-h300/IMG_9721.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8U7gkHud18o1qT9uuletIN0alMDCRzWMqC_Pr2RkhdXxTWTcPiDjoZCXgwqBArX3WmyyzmcmmYef2NOyngqCIwJqJbbkxI1U0PpvqaxNcDSLq0350fFdye-9sfAGxgA4Dhrz4y9V1CBSlFplgWgiPN6s_GFCqsyJCv1O7c4gxm_NSa3eRnFytI6q1Tuu_/s4032/IMG_9723.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8U7gkHud18o1qT9uuletIN0alMDCRzWMqC_Pr2RkhdXxTWTcPiDjoZCXgwqBArX3WmyyzmcmmYef2NOyngqCIwJqJbbkxI1U0PpvqaxNcDSLq0350fFdye-9sfAGxgA4Dhrz4y9V1CBSlFplgWgiPN6s_GFCqsyJCv1O7c4gxm_NSa3eRnFytI6q1Tuu_/w400-h300/IMG_9723.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>January 21st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, the habibi really wanted to visit the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, not to see any temporary exhibition, but the permanent one - on Surrealism! I didn't even know this exhibition existed, so I was curious. Do you know what's cool about collections? They don't have masterpieces, because private collectors can rarely get their hands on them. But they do have a very diverse collection of artists, of not-so-famous pieces by the masters, and the odd artist the collectors placed their faith on. And this makes for fascinating exhibitions! We saw drawings by Francisco de Goya, fantastic structures by Giovanni Piranesi, imagination-inspiring pieces by James Ensor and Max Klinger, paintings by Victor Hugo (yes, Victor Hugo!), Paul Klee, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Hans Bellmer's disturbing shapes, strange landscapes by Oscar Domínguez and Georges Hugnet, Kurt Schwitters... Even an anonymous screen covered with a delirious collage, and a mesmerizing contemporary looping-projection rendition of Max Ernst's "Hausengel" ("the Fire-side Angel") by Cyprien Gaillard.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Honestly, what a trip!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVQKdwtALyy1C8-jIpWlECpxRw84oFezkuFr8j8NdsoUif75QPb4Kn_o-nOuEEAkKxzs0C7AjBX6oRreMJ2tVR93JIZ-jEzh5oBJiz5IHvE1jF_TitlKOY8chVDPFvHl_PrKkZnPXz4A1xJqASeo97smDdWLzQjwlvn6N9wW-f_xn0WDVzo1gLq4qmofR/s4032/IMG_9733.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVQKdwtALyy1C8-jIpWlECpxRw84oFezkuFr8j8NdsoUif75QPb4Kn_o-nOuEEAkKxzs0C7AjBX6oRreMJ2tVR93JIZ-jEzh5oBJiz5IHvE1jF_TitlKOY8chVDPFvHl_PrKkZnPXz4A1xJqASeo97smDdWLzQjwlvn6N9wW-f_xn0WDVzo1gLq4qmofR/w400-h300/IMG_9733.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHMOEymOF-60BKKHA7e1xbB72m3FT0UGu9yQ0kVz76vcnt0xWaf9bfkhR9qYwrk7LBidhsguPNxSVswcMRU-j89kDaTXkmMWeHxwEec-Dlzxd9cx_RTrO5kh_0S-EdP6DoknfjAIYwWTo_ut3P2wENob6viNxT1qrU7ijpr_8X1y47PnJLZqA8Jv09EnY/s4032/IMG_9739.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEAza1AIBu3M9yATtbD_NxSZBC2WrXYELXqUCczezFBMfxu9_mE-iUdblP8GyzoKHS-o9VfSr5-QX81dndoyY8EJ-_hU4sPvcOZIGv9JF8V5d_88fH4o7T_jwl0kXDXe4_cQqReb1RfDsC7KmFmFri6eeiQSJcGLztAD7n22vezhyphenhyphenJZbOKbOEawxfjhEG/w300-h400/IMG_9745.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, the habibi had also planned we see "Poor Things" at Kino International. But he didn't quite realize this was on the other side of the city! So, we hurried off, and then we noticed that the public transport was a lot busier than usual, especially with families with kids... Once we reached Alexander Platz, the crowds had become almost impenetrable (luckily, we were heading in the opposite direction everybody else was). These were people heading to a demonstration against the AfD, a party that held a secret meeting in November with Neo-Nazis to talk about a final solution for non-white people in Germany (yeah, the language they used was "re-emigration" for asylum seekers, as well as immigrants and even citizens who were deemed not properly assimilated, but I'm not going to sanitize the intention with legal-sounding verbiage). </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was moving to see the crowds. I do hope that they do represent the general sentiment, and not that we've reached the point where the majority agrees with the AfD, but they're keeping quiet, like the AfD tried by keeping their meeting secret (and thankfully, failing at that). </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nzEQQUefFq2GdcQ-EMZOjjcE86-gfasfPTSEu3X7kJYrYpkA5na-GjP3RMGHucINGiJ-KiSVi9OP0ge8ZXBB8_uZ8GSjRaSKT9YjdgeRKdIk0NyKtG1P2esVsklgFKS8RzoFmPXAKWKsE8cpoIarGRbp2JWj20tyoWgpdM3N-W5QsxjBnFx5crWM6aro/s4032/IMG_9793.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9nzEQQUefFq2GdcQ-EMZOjjcE86-gfasfPTSEu3X7kJYrYpkA5na-GjP3RMGHucINGiJ-KiSVi9OP0ge8ZXBB8_uZ8GSjRaSKT9YjdgeRKdIk0NyKtG1P2esVsklgFKS8RzoFmPXAKWKsE8cpoIarGRbp2JWj20tyoWgpdM3N-W5QsxjBnFx5crWM6aro/w300-h400/IMG_9793.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The film? Fascinating. I totally recommend it. It's a bit disturbing. But it did leave my mind busy for a bit, wading in subjects such as gender, misogyny, free will, poverty...</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 26th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Women's World IV, two days of performances at Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, organized by Polish performance artist Alexandra Hołownia. This night not just the habibi (Gustavo Thomas) performed, but a few other artists (actually, the event lasted two days, and Friday was already the second night). </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOr2uibH4CbJyj0mAgTdX3yH8Mnc_dJcBJ8-pMRvmtXoFphf0dPYsnCLtx6lDqxFbFnkbKYA2sEOPQzcRkpOq3Cpv94rCOtvqgM282cVDFlNV9wix11zCRZGjDc6D4AvLos0GYSecmWXx9h6SLlwmAHjEees1LZoKDLtzGKGJ7P5QEmN4ZHGAFHTtfRNgi/s4032/IMG_9818.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOr2uibH4CbJyj0mAgTdX3yH8Mnc_dJcBJ8-pMRvmtXoFphf0dPYsnCLtx6lDqxFbFnkbKYA2sEOPQzcRkpOq3Cpv94rCOtvqgM282cVDFlNV9wix11zCRZGjDc6D4AvLos0GYSecmWXx9h6SLlwmAHjEees1LZoKDLtzGKGJ7P5QEmN4ZHGAFHTtfRNgi/w400-h300/IMG_9818.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, the performances. The habibi did a very moving one, based on three women in his life – his mother, his grandmother, and his great-grandmother. His mother passed away recently, so it carried even more weight... As usual, he had all of us fixated on him and wound up on our own emotional trip... And after he was done, I could see people approach him to express their thanks for the performance. I'm telling you, I don't write this because of my relationship with him, I see how people react. Such naches. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhAPn4QSwSeBV3db5-iO8r9tJ2t-2-830JY-QElUAkCtaw4huu8GdySaikYFpPMaQ7rfm3qPanmRJNdhQ2FsGfnuqmqu1sa5Q3aBXVqPLP9PlWKVTavusO29c0gsKhJ94MBEqevtgxl_TYShTMTrgi59bNCDPGjNf2T3jHji9CUNNc86mDDMWH5qa8ira/s4032/IMG_9821.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhAPn4QSwSeBV3db5-iO8r9tJ2t-2-830JY-QElUAkCtaw4huu8GdySaikYFpPMaQ7rfm3qPanmRJNdhQ2FsGfnuqmqu1sa5Q3aBXVqPLP9PlWKVTavusO29c0gsKhJ94MBEqevtgxl_TYShTMTrgi59bNCDPGjNf2T3jHji9CUNNc86mDDMWH5qa8ira/w400-h300/IMG_9821.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIBYbZ4x0S1AZbiOdnm4WGY-_X8TbXnO5cqnDl-FPAV2RMGCsynuL8oxvHBvIg9H3feWOC2z1BqrdEDblFEgEXaGRQRSfBagCdC86ZIaYT6E_tl1VDHjuCLCBBXMw5hMHpnZZVhq6LFKTr8SNmz-vHB0G6VHaAq2Cd0RTcHFRQJEnEyFlhRtdz3_mOazIY/s4032/IMG_9868.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIBYbZ4x0S1AZbiOdnm4WGY-_X8TbXnO5cqnDl-FPAV2RMGCsynuL8oxvHBvIg9H3feWOC2z1BqrdEDblFEgEXaGRQRSfBagCdC86ZIaYT6E_tl1VDHjuCLCBBXMw5hMHpnZZVhq6LFKTr8SNmz-vHB0G6VHaAq2Cd0RTcHFRQJEnEyFlhRtdz3_mOazIY/w300-h400/IMG_9868.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As for the others, I'd like to mention two of them in particular. One is Josef Ka, a Russian performance artist. I loved her presentation, as it involved Berlin imagery and play, including sausages, axes, toasts to "Bruderschaft" (with really nice vodka, by the way), thick lipstick kisses, and an old film playing while people from the audience were tied to her and pulled her from all sides as if she were some sort of puppet. All this took place in a vault-like room. Impressive.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPhyuphlaKyksY8n9gD6so18kRL14HCAwq2z5ISSbVCq6_-X7-gXPJpnJFZhXM-2BbIityzU9TknMdJ2sGIGjYSvgIfyk0F5O_dcKnGNsve_2OlMzXOqho7ZVEFc5-JmzWfoxVC_S32T_GWJKNRqOOjx8Etw9XV7qjkm1QquFFBEVvfhZU5i-Wlrr6bKK/s4032/IMG_9883.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPhyuphlaKyksY8n9gD6so18kRL14HCAwq2z5ISSbVCq6_-X7-gXPJpnJFZhXM-2BbIityzU9TknMdJ2sGIGjYSvgIfyk0F5O_dcKnGNsve_2OlMzXOqho7ZVEFc5-JmzWfoxVC_S32T_GWJKNRqOOjx8Etw9XV7qjkm1QquFFBEVvfhZU5i-Wlrr6bKK/w400-h300/IMG_9883.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And then, Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, a Polish performer who took us through a very dramatic trip from him cutting a headdress to shreds with scissors (while wearing it!), to running red and blue markers over his body over and over, to taping objects to it, to then transforming into a restrained humanoid crumbling before our very eyes. That's the best way I can describe it. I understand the anniversary of the death of his partner was around this time, hence perhaps the strong emotions and actions...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImpyAjJHK6VEnRWC4H_byQP7I0atDy2eMBb8TVlHMi95zwVzG0X16gmq5R73PqJt1wh-43_1hEcwsKmKohJbI-BAb1xhPaRd50oVAqeIdTh48cLbwPbPK_BjqNpSdujGpRg5xBgX1L8uEjCG3_kR_KLa3aSwB0Bky0Htal8bGo5aWiaJwB_RQJa4PS_i3/s4032/IMG_9930.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiImpyAjJHK6VEnRWC4H_byQP7I0atDy2eMBb8TVlHMi95zwVzG0X16gmq5R73PqJt1wh-43_1hEcwsKmKohJbI-BAb1xhPaRd50oVAqeIdTh48cLbwPbPK_BjqNpSdujGpRg5xBgX1L8uEjCG3_kR_KLa3aSwB0Bky0Htal8bGo5aWiaJwB_RQJa4PS_i3/w300-h400/IMG_9930.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm positively jealous of people like the habibi and these performers, putting themselves out there to create stuff to move us, in the most unusual of places.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 27th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">To continue with an inspiring weekend, we went to see the "Josephine Baker. Icon in Motion" exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie. What a fascinating character. Sure, there is some criticism about how she played with stereotypes, but you can't deny that it requires enormous talent to escape poverty as a black woman in St. Louis, Missouri and become a world-renowned figure with a 50-year-long career launched in Paris. I mean, Matisse, Calder, Paul Klee... they all created art inspired by her! And she even helped the Allies as a spy during WWII! It was a big poignant to see her as an anti-racism activist at a time when anti-black racism and anti-semitism were fights that went hand-in-hand, whereas today there's this horrible split between both...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURKA6zdnZ5lCtBxJDaEYnkMeOolQH3E8xPB1njwfRSe38TIdm5DstefRr3ZjmXkqMdBtJzWz6_tcXpS4S4Zl30FQlfnUXPuSljkqnAsWF-XAThHu3zu78cMiZberY1JcIPWaaaGk0I4e_dFjs-DDAM1H9Q0TyGoz2PkqjpYJo5jyiK6HjPDHxLvgGvx0K/s4032/IMG_9943.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURKA6zdnZ5lCtBxJDaEYnkMeOolQH3E8xPB1njwfRSe38TIdm5DstefRr3ZjmXkqMdBtJzWz6_tcXpS4S4Zl30FQlfnUXPuSljkqnAsWF-XAThHu3zu78cMiZberY1JcIPWaaaGk0I4e_dFjs-DDAM1H9Q0TyGoz2PkqjpYJo5jyiK6HjPDHxLvgGvx0K/w400-h300/IMG_9943.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZkkT7WYSeQHC6wOr0bBuuS50ihBExQQ3QGTUfuRXQyK0Fs7VWEhXa91RMZnB11cobs1CfH8Lx8H8jFvIViWtem4Iro7MeKVs8fHIZ7sNvDfY-7LicsG-527-nazZ-uhcm95K0jN_-4e3_s_HQ1NwlYAaz3WQSrlo9yq44D6RbwcjqylfMBIWquqnlyrI/s4032/IMG_9946.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZkkT7WYSeQHC6wOr0bBuuS50ihBExQQ3QGTUfuRXQyK0Fs7VWEhXa91RMZnB11cobs1CfH8Lx8H8jFvIViWtem4Iro7MeKVs8fHIZ7sNvDfY-7LicsG-527-nazZ-uhcm95K0jN_-4e3_s_HQ1NwlYAaz3WQSrlo9yq44D6RbwcjqylfMBIWquqnlyrI/w300-h400/IMG_9946.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJftZxK74nYtqV90voSkCQJkQe77_Gd_E_ch8PqJdpvJtmX98t5_8dFRM6dhuQzDniXHNUs4AH93nPi_0BPqfl-9OKciujnGgJ2vupCttaa-HnJp4eJhYfT3TpiIAuHrhEYeclgnJGCpZS-TIJANa5DbnOyA4m3qloMK7YZ7JH-2rMW3XwXEe6dxWXpc1/s4032/IMG_9950.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJftZxK74nYtqV90voSkCQJkQe77_Gd_E_ch8PqJdpvJtmX98t5_8dFRM6dhuQzDniXHNUs4AH93nPi_0BPqfl-9OKciujnGgJ2vupCttaa-HnJp4eJhYfT3TpiIAuHrhEYeclgnJGCpZS-TIJANa5DbnOyA4m3qloMK7YZ7JH-2rMW3XwXEe6dxWXpc1/w300-h400/IMG_9950.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumxSXmebnD4InX1utuGg-MJ851NVQ0zYecFCXuu4IBIl-mdnqPbNHQ4LVhZJOiGZVJPFLsxWMCLtFgjkMCBU5we-m6xQPr45fB1ut8qdZUr0KlbeoZQU_NVaONSQrONmoEF-XAy2l8VZdckpY7QRlNxfx3fhYv9JId3en8B_nTCjv4FbcaAKCzDIAkUYY/s4032/IMG_9953.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjumxSXmebnD4InX1utuGg-MJ851NVQ0zYecFCXuu4IBIl-mdnqPbNHQ4LVhZJOiGZVJPFLsxWMCLtFgjkMCBU5we-m6xQPr45fB1ut8qdZUr0KlbeoZQU_NVaONSQrONmoEF-XAy2l8VZdckpY7QRlNxfx3fhYv9JId3en8B_nTCjv4FbcaAKCzDIAkUYY/w400-h300/IMG_9953.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqVboAo-pJcpBZn4fQC9-jwfj_11Whzgs6FBPDuaUyJN6EB50TvupyCRsIG4XoYFLW4ikCLDBeSdNQOlKk5MYVXsmsXWJMgAh5iERU0PtZbBekf1Oc5Edk7So_q02gyfQYbOmaoCywSaa4QdmYJvbe0FiaJ6hJuyHsFQ21mtlRHbtBpNmTG_AvtRyJ_e0/s4032/IMG_9968.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqVboAo-pJcpBZn4fQC9-jwfj_11Whzgs6FBPDuaUyJN6EB50TvupyCRsIG4XoYFLW4ikCLDBeSdNQOlKk5MYVXsmsXWJMgAh5iERU0PtZbBekf1Oc5Edk7So_q02gyfQYbOmaoCywSaa4QdmYJvbe0FiaJ6hJuyHsFQ21mtlRHbtBpNmTG_AvtRyJ_e0/w300-h400/IMG_9968.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWicVgVQ8DgQUFs1ff-0ss_Td0fmdiNkjHtOYdIFE_XiigcXZWBHfQ-RHfUpz4VP7loa2EWylLzu9NJU58bTXpbrLM8AazHVrxblM-WoB5qq06g1U-J0H3_bzG_anXbc4_q4uRG2WfIg4ISvm8RjTHcWQ7N2aKMhuLRGkfXnb0YZqVV1xmvsD_0vXTJWu/s4032/IMG_9972.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivWicVgVQ8DgQUFs1ff-0ss_Td0fmdiNkjHtOYdIFE_XiigcXZWBHfQ-RHfUpz4VP7loa2EWylLzu9NJU58bTXpbrLM8AazHVrxblM-WoB5qq06g1U-J0H3_bzG_anXbc4_q4uRG2WfIg4ISvm8RjTHcWQ7N2aKMhuLRGkfXnb0YZqVV1xmvsD_0vXTJWu/w300-h400/IMG_9972.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, since Chinese New Year is coming, I was all in the mood for even more Chinese food at Ming Dynasty, right? Not only did I love it last time, but I wanted proof that it was not just pure good luck and that the place was consistently good. This time we ordered Dan Dan noodles (擔擔麵), Firecracker Chicken (辣子雞), and smacked cucumber with chilli oil (酸辣黃瓜). Not only was it delicious (again), but it was wonderfully spicy! Yay! Success! Although (and a testament to how long we lived in China) we both thought the chicken could have done with... bones! Oh, to think the day would come when I actually thought meat would be better with bones in it...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbtaC1QTN76h0gAzdWHl9-GopKZTDkU1GFCSqfFH894QyH3cgboAqjwib-QRsLyTVkJJmtZw5R1wyfaMUx1LGaJfcvS8W3T_M3fN6I2fFQIQY_sMwmnk_WS5u3z0V1b1S5yIYdIrGXOKcE08P0zhdkfHZ6_YDhOiBltU0XbvFGHB0KTDJhImHDg1dVSTq/s4032/IMG_9974.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbtaC1QTN76h0gAzdWHl9-GopKZTDkU1GFCSqfFH894QyH3cgboAqjwib-QRsLyTVkJJmtZw5R1wyfaMUx1LGaJfcvS8W3T_M3fN6I2fFQIQY_sMwmnk_WS5u3z0V1b1S5yIYdIrGXOKcE08P0zhdkfHZ6_YDhOiBltU0XbvFGHB0KTDJhImHDg1dVSTq/w400-h300/IMG_9974.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, we went to Biererei, in Kottbusser Tor, so we could have a nice beer in the habibi's ideal location - one with seats, no smoking, a big beer selection, and cool people. Mind you, all four of those things at the same time? that's a tall order! But I got to try a smoked beer (a Raucheisbock, in fact, which is both an Eisbock, which is a more alchoholic Bock, and a Rauchbock, or a smoked Bock!). Nice! But I was in need of partying a bit (not crazy partying, just decent, easy partying), so me and this bud who dances at the Staatsballet went to Ficken 3000. It's a very interesting place - it's very chill, the music is good, there's an underground area where people chill, chat, do drugs (it's Berlin), fool around... I don't know, it strikes me as very Berlin, and relaxed. I got home at 4:30am, and that's what I call a quiet night out? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-m6LTHVmLm-BawXRkzBPmeLCSsOWyIGpmKun0XTzU8niauG2OvBnBVGvka8jrYzjAr9a3qjQmB2ftNYrYWpmCythtV50xMuVu8JoETq6JFG5eDtz7RftFNF9OGD5JAyYsHeJl8R1HHTOWbgaEHAcngr1Q-gMOIAjDcmMjkIR3Ur2grS0Kywb1N5MArk4W/s4032/IMG_9979.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-m6LTHVmLm-BawXRkzBPmeLCSsOWyIGpmKun0XTzU8niauG2OvBnBVGvka8jrYzjAr9a3qjQmB2ftNYrYWpmCythtV50xMuVu8JoETq6JFG5eDtz7RftFNF9OGD5JAyYsHeJl8R1HHTOWbgaEHAcngr1Q-gMOIAjDcmMjkIR3Ur2grS0Kywb1N5MArk4W/w400-h300/IMG_9979.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 28th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The weekend ended beautifully. We started with a wonderful Turkish breakfast at La Femme, with eggs and meat, a delicious salad with cheese and olives, and plenty of slices of French toast with halva, honey, cheese and Nutella! Oh, so good. Also, the sun was shining, so we even got to enjoy the sunshine while eating breakfast! How amazing is that?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07-P5lL6uIsU8jTa5IJGnNosrx2vscm-gufCGSC1pD-frhkeiw36rnKViLKj1xstmYfXWczqb0Kp0vzFAFQwIM5Kq9g59WvaMXt856JjrmdPId8m9DoSZiFdN4MbG-GT5lgcL-hBW4uiEVg13PI580vhB79MkM0KcDz4IoqEbK-WSBguQtzndAknL-Uqb/s4032/IMG_9982.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07-P5lL6uIsU8jTa5IJGnNosrx2vscm-gufCGSC1pD-frhkeiw36rnKViLKj1xstmYfXWczqb0Kp0vzFAFQwIM5Kq9g59WvaMXt856JjrmdPId8m9DoSZiFdN4MbG-GT5lgcL-hBW4uiEVg13PI580vhB79MkM0KcDz4IoqEbK-WSBguQtzndAknL-Uqb/w400-h300/IMG_9982.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">After that, and since we were so full and it was still sunny, we went for a walk around the Schöneberg area. Loved it. It was a mini architectural tour, with a building with a couple of eyes painted on, a traditional building with tiles, some modernist architecture, a new take on old brick expressionism... I don't know, the buildings were interesting, I was in a good mood because of the food and the sun... it was just nice. Oh, and we passed by a most curious toy store, with jigsaw puzzles and tons of little and very queer action figures? Like men in towels, mermen, leather men... and a small bust of Karl Marx? So funny.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRO-_xbJsE3JwZM1qTbOzraKC_tZR-1Vs7agv94-lp4JvsNwxSxH05ylYuYNB6onmKVmjmmfGC0-W-F0Q5N4hrJLoYN1kRA7kna7_jbAULACejJFddGQWyMsL2O2T9G9RCqoLR7hSyxCqtDwxRZcnTlAaZitlursi0cFiZEfcVa5yLdes9O5MzPVNyjBC/s4032/IMG_9986.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMRO-_xbJsE3JwZM1qTbOzraKC_tZR-1Vs7agv94-lp4JvsNwxSxH05ylYuYNB6onmKVmjmmfGC0-W-F0Q5N4hrJLoYN1kRA7kna7_jbAULACejJFddGQWyMsL2O2T9G9RCqoLR7hSyxCqtDwxRZcnTlAaZitlursi0cFiZEfcVa5yLdes9O5MzPVNyjBC/w300-h400/IMG_9986.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpcGotKxCoCj7dyEXJ2n5ukF-r5uiGsp_UFXnZ46s2FHas22AX42SPSErRRQQvXzPsOpvl_nYRWLzMWNfpkur8C9Z2M4YBlOC-JjKeSTwm9GDdoW5We1QMcDTCdOpbKLRxHs9vy5BDojBgn4ab6Jrhwfix7evV6_HIiV8FGR4tIGKC_YOS9_jc471oogl/s4032/IMG_9988.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkpcGotKxCoCj7dyEXJ2n5ukF-r5uiGsp_UFXnZ46s2FHas22AX42SPSErRRQQvXzPsOpvl_nYRWLzMWNfpkur8C9Z2M4YBlOC-JjKeSTwm9GDdoW5We1QMcDTCdOpbKLRxHs9vy5BDojBgn4ab6Jrhwfix7evV6_HIiV8FGR4tIGKC_YOS9_jc471oogl/w400-h300/IMG_9988.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPNIcQHsVwlYlsQujCEjGYGzvwMALFlkX1cEfx5nAuP5a1STJOUuL3I1eT2jHpneCl_bGpEz2ihcV0V83AkyHvtozTtiUtB3aOw3IQgjqop1ifQCz__f_abAkWVmDW5GImQXyvF5erQD8w7CrUtJxb4JVGATyazpaWrAmPskHW15r28kFn2Ihaf3SdKWj/s4032/IMG_9991.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjPNIcQHsVwlYlsQujCEjGYGzvwMALFlkX1cEfx5nAuP5a1STJOUuL3I1eT2jHpneCl_bGpEz2ihcV0V83AkyHvtozTtiUtB3aOw3IQgjqop1ifQCz__f_abAkWVmDW5GImQXyvF5erQD8w7CrUtJxb4JVGATyazpaWrAmPskHW15r28kFn2Ihaf3SdKWj/w300-h400/IMG_9991.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZw0-0_oIJTmZJ21iKh5ktNWVeZeARp6XF7zKQCofdl9sEhzzbVEvhlTbqCcxXxasicC0w5a-hrsODHzo0QaGLL3W0o3NTAL375mwzntoBoDFsElH-yxul8LGAbL0RnZ4CVS8KQXiOSZeIs1e-FdD_j09vZVNLb1NAoxrpQb_Gkkh8TgQJZpBj-Tf4mMT/s4032/IMG_0006.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZw0-0_oIJTmZJ21iKh5ktNWVeZeARp6XF7zKQCofdl9sEhzzbVEvhlTbqCcxXxasicC0w5a-hrsODHzo0QaGLL3W0o3NTAL375mwzntoBoDFsElH-yxul8LGAbL0RnZ4CVS8KQXiOSZeIs1e-FdD_j09vZVNLb1NAoxrpQb_Gkkh8TgQJZpBj-Tf4mMT/w300-h400/IMG_0006.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNeNYOVOps1HGVRgSJ-S5mUuRUmWLIv38AszB_opo1g6h3qwo6Z4be6mnBQsCa28iLxDc1Jjz24LZPES4hTSqA8zXy5rWvPwzjbRviP4DRlFeWB0wHEdihB5I0DU7PNppkOD-clVJeAcsiUeovlY57iB6dkryKsFF2x4gpbobYI6gCBtD7p2k71SMLQ4P/s4032/IMG_0008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTNeNYOVOps1HGVRgSJ-S5mUuRUmWLIv38AszB_opo1g6h3qwo6Z4be6mnBQsCa28iLxDc1Jjz24LZPES4hTSqA8zXy5rWvPwzjbRviP4DRlFeWB0wHEdihB5I0DU7PNppkOD-clVJeAcsiUeovlY57iB6dkryKsFF2x4gpbobYI6gCBtD7p2k71SMLQ4P/w400-h300/IMG_0008.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1XG0A0IE2_T2PAxt8FOTEGYFjBFTaZrmOjU8d51mhodKC2D28nXtTQxdsqeocEhGrLwulDfrKR0aXYaPPqVyewtXeZjE15e7JmO6ERU6Q7xm7-0-ghJtn0r1roqPo68jcUVuyAgXpnKHtGH-l5Z2_bEZaNZRoG2SqY8QHrb16MjGOBGtK6i-oS3oClKP/s4032/IMG_9994.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1XG0A0IE2_T2PAxt8FOTEGYFjBFTaZrmOjU8d51mhodKC2D28nXtTQxdsqeocEhGrLwulDfrKR0aXYaPPqVyewtXeZjE15e7JmO6ERU6Q7xm7-0-ghJtn0r1roqPo68jcUVuyAgXpnKHtGH-l5Z2_bEZaNZRoG2SqY8QHrb16MjGOBGtK6i-oS3oClKP/w300-h400/IMG_9994.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We finished at Viani, an Italian café and mini market where we sat in the sun to read. So wonderful. What a lovely Sunday.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFBN4VF_g8kZPIDrlL3uUdrZKLMBtJAmkiBQgZzUkvvoaZxxUc9norHjxC68lSThMdKbQnuhvmdWw3YQYrBuXWsV38LqBthnzRu4CQeXIdP-4V63EHLavLQUt1rHbTYML5xYEoPPyKvsgA_0Xt3HM8zZsyBeSEFPv3iXU-vYuoO7WjDoHf6Tc3j5Bg_F7/s4032/IMG_0003.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtFBN4VF_g8kZPIDrlL3uUdrZKLMBtJAmkiBQgZzUkvvoaZxxUc9norHjxC68lSThMdKbQnuhvmdWw3YQYrBuXWsV38LqBthnzRu4CQeXIdP-4V63EHLavLQUt1rHbTYML5xYEoPPyKvsgA_0Xt3HM8zZsyBeSEFPv3iXU-vYuoO7WjDoHf6Tc3j5Bg_F7/w300-h400/IMG_0003.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 30th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I finished reading "Was will der Zionismus?", a pamphlet from 1903 that I bought at an old bookshop in Tel Aviv. Wow, to read these people writing at the beginning of the 20th century about the plight of Jewish populations in Eastern Europe (they append a list of truly horrific laws promulgated one after the other in Russia and Rumania, restricting the lives of Jewish populations more and more, and in a sense a pre-enactment of what the Nazis would do later), and about how no matter how much you assimilate in Western Europe you're still always viewed as the other... They make such a convincing case for the need for a Jewish homeland where you can be fully yourself, and not a lesser version of a person or citizen... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I know the word "Zionism" has acquired many meanings, and for many people it's even become a negative thing. But at least for the authors of this 1903 document, it was simply a proposal for what many nations and peoples had already done and achieved - a place where you could be safe to thrive, with equal rights and under fair laws. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2meyxwRYrGyKdHP4OHcDB54ZzGhyphenhyphen6DhaFQ4fzde0vBP2hBO-sPt7pTBuuzpGdx1MlDncAqctBnSM4AAZd3yrpwdlGLldIjF7VBzlMG9CUNfF7NWt3gwR6PNpWn7cIXRKHTondqzIu_7eZISh8WjeCbJOfy6LDL-yMy6wT8amSBeEACglv1L9UhsWsSri/s4032/IMG_0045.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB2meyxwRYrGyKdHP4OHcDB54ZzGhyphenhyphen6DhaFQ4fzde0vBP2hBO-sPt7pTBuuzpGdx1MlDncAqctBnSM4AAZd3yrpwdlGLldIjF7VBzlMG9CUNfF7NWt3gwR6PNpWn7cIXRKHTondqzIu_7eZISh8WjeCbJOfy6LDL-yMy6wT8amSBeEACglv1L9UhsWsSri/w300-h400/IMG_0045.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy74jKRsf0zMIkFPP56Vc8CO6IvV_2h2E2qV3o7MSyMfVHjlrCmutc_vmjQzhfT-Ha2R0xwwPPOoTClN7rIpQo0sjGprZZHiFnfIcc_O2auXA2N_6irQVcMNTDYkV8UMD_JbbdYAQylJuSLVfOluZ7bApsNxmpcK1e-RYrA3vzlKBOyS0ZzQYgxPGlrHs5/s4032/IMG_0046.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy74jKRsf0zMIkFPP56Vc8CO6IvV_2h2E2qV3o7MSyMfVHjlrCmutc_vmjQzhfT-Ha2R0xwwPPOoTClN7rIpQo0sjGprZZHiFnfIcc_O2auXA2N_6irQVcMNTDYkV8UMD_JbbdYAQylJuSLVfOluZ7bApsNxmpcK1e-RYrA3vzlKBOyS0ZzQYgxPGlrHs5/w300-h400/IMG_0046.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 31st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw an exhibition about the tradition of saunas in Finland, at the Nordic Embassies building! I've been to saunas in winter in Norway and Iceland, and in summer in Finland. And all the time here in Germany. I love saunas. And when in Helsinki, I loved the Finnish way of enjoying it, really relaxed, really chill, really meant to be enjoyed... So I was very happy to see this small exhibition. And you won't believe this, but they have actual saunas on the terrace just for this exhibition! Of course, I signed up. And, of course, they're fully booked and I'm on the waiting list. I'd go back to Helsinki just to go to saunas!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWBBjfU0U3kvTTbu1dR6krrEvHdZHoeb1i3iu85zUf-qqunlYBmwX4Gfb8it9KvXV1YmymiG2X_I9Zyvc7K0DK8hZXkaumZXny0Lu2c-hREv0jLozqQrWlgG6vTw1AhFJBR7eHPWXuMhZKRgyfdaWOIReWF2PhnCHdCx09q4HjKhm82Ca-oVDQeNT7XTj/s4032/IMG_0048.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWBBjfU0U3kvTTbu1dR6krrEvHdZHoeb1i3iu85zUf-qqunlYBmwX4Gfb8it9KvXV1YmymiG2X_I9Zyvc7K0DK8hZXkaumZXny0Lu2c-hREv0jLozqQrWlgG6vTw1AhFJBR7eHPWXuMhZKRgyfdaWOIReWF2PhnCHdCx09q4HjKhm82Ca-oVDQeNT7XTj/w400-h300/IMG_0048.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3QXH_-hfskenI4Tj4wAXYnhBMc9x0v64KPQRsCUtPjgpwG107PJjuPce3lCftCflW85E4EUAlF645Tn6v07TgTAiSkdOmRJFwWJvdcpf-Ndhyphenhyphen1sX6TDY-R-SG76hgT_aYCmRrv6GxMsaT2eKdSTbHoosr1SK8IBOqnhJLOsbg1TcKhyPNXuLyHSqw1vkn/s4032/IMG_0049.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3QXH_-hfskenI4Tj4wAXYnhBMc9x0v64KPQRsCUtPjgpwG107PJjuPce3lCftCflW85E4EUAlF645Tn6v07TgTAiSkdOmRJFwWJvdcpf-Ndhyphenhyphen1sX6TDY-R-SG76hgT_aYCmRrv6GxMsaT2eKdSTbHoosr1SK8IBOqnhJLOsbg1TcKhyPNXuLyHSqw1vkn/w300-h400/IMG_0049.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84yZHQN-DPYGCKZSDdG9G9tWqQHUVQMpTO7MNdusjwDW4jsEHkbFOQ66qGuv2bUUlf488nqasXfdNMlscI_dpqmPm1BBGwFEwo6jeBYPcHS2_kwKbFxRbDbdxP7Ufk3YW3Kgp86SOIc4veEYmYzFuUXx2iyVuvKSOl4NQ_rpAWUMUDsRw8RKNk0EFv6Z4/s4032/IMG_0052.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84yZHQN-DPYGCKZSDdG9G9tWqQHUVQMpTO7MNdusjwDW4jsEHkbFOQ66qGuv2bUUlf488nqasXfdNMlscI_dpqmPm1BBGwFEwo6jeBYPcHS2_kwKbFxRbDbdxP7Ufk3YW3Kgp86SOIc4veEYmYzFuUXx2iyVuvKSOl4NQ_rpAWUMUDsRw8RKNk0EFv6Z4/w300-h400/IMG_0052.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And at night? A Chinese New Year reception at the Rotes Rathaus! I was lucky to land an invitation through the Chinese Cultural Centre (all those years of living in China had to pay off, right?), and it was just amazing. From the lions greeting us at the entrance, through the performances by a Shandong troupe that touched every Chinese-friendly fibre in our body and mind... I mean, the sound of the sheng (笙 a vertical bamboo reed wind instrument) and of the suona (嗩吶 a kind of small trumpet) transported us to Canton, the sounds of a lute-like instrument took us back to Xinjiang, and the jinghu (京胡 a smaller version of an erhu 二胡, a Chinese string instrument) reminded us of the times we used to watch Chinese opera in Peking... It was so moving! And then? The food! Ha! It was from Ming Dynasty! And it was delicious, as expected! But it's really funny how much we're eating from that place now! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh27wXOBKk-ZHvjP3QaG6NZbsrQLSMQuZlKBooNns0xpve_pmyR90v2-XOI-8TPc0xDhHCr_Bz6iQTK9M79GMyFS4NmYR0uVbchD5u6KISAcjFO973Ksjrn-mjMO3Krfp4nprGlFBjqOEZvfga3naoJ5MiVOe3NAFqLR5dmDj8vAiBAQKsTDythBZpjPeo/s4032/IMG_0056.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh27wXOBKk-ZHvjP3QaG6NZbsrQLSMQuZlKBooNns0xpve_pmyR90v2-XOI-8TPc0xDhHCr_Bz6iQTK9M79GMyFS4NmYR0uVbchD5u6KISAcjFO973Ksjrn-mjMO3Krfp4nprGlFBjqOEZvfga3naoJ5MiVOe3NAFqLR5dmDj8vAiBAQKsTDythBZpjPeo/w300-h400/IMG_0056.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVvCBZ7DgQ3bSe6WagvRtEbgNZBhBzHBi064wTy-tUIVP0orHyO0VWhaA5HNOBs9VaIfCsekvJQw83h4kLYFGJwH3a1IXn14yjkzp75fjdkluVxNwCpPdsYODQMaT_x0z_JskcZx_wrv9XVPKyviPSX3bE57NVOT3xNdCzufPZ8tnOSCxZqUN2PcdthwX/s4032/IMG_0057.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwVvCBZ7DgQ3bSe6WagvRtEbgNZBhBzHBi064wTy-tUIVP0orHyO0VWhaA5HNOBs9VaIfCsekvJQw83h4kLYFGJwH3a1IXn14yjkzp75fjdkluVxNwCpPdsYODQMaT_x0z_JskcZx_wrv9XVPKyviPSX3bE57NVOT3xNdCzufPZ8tnOSCxZqUN2PcdthwX/w400-h300/IMG_0057.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD8mi8MoCcX_1hmrIDRabuei8J3bT1s6c5jlJfvH5EHO5Esokwmu5ASgJR9OERxfmIFwWaxTe7IlOrQSt2UwI4Y85yr5HYlzws2WrrK4hHDqoXR8x7l1R2jYpDgGw3JG9QahrvsGNR06eJTOsZifMz3P4gZZfGFHEdk-k1Rps9iwgDpw1IiUYKrH6WTpS5/s4032/IMG_0059.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD8mi8MoCcX_1hmrIDRabuei8J3bT1s6c5jlJfvH5EHO5Esokwmu5ASgJR9OERxfmIFwWaxTe7IlOrQSt2UwI4Y85yr5HYlzws2WrrK4hHDqoXR8x7l1R2jYpDgGw3JG9QahrvsGNR06eJTOsZifMz3P4gZZfGFHEdk-k1Rps9iwgDpw1IiUYKrH6WTpS5/w400-h300/IMG_0059.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In the end, we can't deny it, we spent so much of our lives in China, and it moved us so... No kidding our hearts are so close to it. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCFXGubkXBXtEilqi6lUUO5S74o_f5DHUTOflLgjMgHyS4kHUwHRMA68b-b6s1BN5l37p6pfGf29N15uNq1wxAq7pnPyKSDwwadDo1PDAaSdioUUMcLuzRB4FPH9fJ_YqJN7rudjWfjxw5MpD4IUXJfRVpj3rh9L4YnuOF1GtLDWYjg5zS1av7_mJmDyhF/s4032/IMG_0073.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCFXGubkXBXtEilqi6lUUO5S74o_f5DHUTOflLgjMgHyS4kHUwHRMA68b-b6s1BN5l37p6pfGf29N15uNq1wxAq7pnPyKSDwwadDo1PDAaSdioUUMcLuzRB4FPH9fJ_YqJN7rudjWfjxw5MpD4IUXJfRVpj3rh9L4YnuOF1GtLDWYjg5zS1av7_mJmDyhF/w400-h300/IMG_0073.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>February 1st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was sunny! Again!? But this time my walk around Tiergarten felt slightly different... the light, the ducks, coots and swans... Is spring actually approaching?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_OXrYaeAbcn_5MdkonnWJglZCXMw4hhtcsGSQO8gpdZQVK5FJtUwqm1LmHkNnEsBN5DmBNnWE14DEaFuSq5OeKlt10ZwWRz5AodvxB2zF23pnhTIQSN0U1rZZEXafzb9LHFL2OgrSIPSK4xCBtVlfLtEImG5t05ezByD9HdMrdN9l3iYW6QT-F3Xi1vw/s4032/IMG_0080.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu_OXrYaeAbcn_5MdkonnWJglZCXMw4hhtcsGSQO8gpdZQVK5FJtUwqm1LmHkNnEsBN5DmBNnWE14DEaFuSq5OeKlt10ZwWRz5AodvxB2zF23pnhTIQSN0U1rZZEXafzb9LHFL2OgrSIPSK4xCBtVlfLtEImG5t05ezByD9HdMrdN9l3iYW6QT-F3Xi1vw/w400-h300/IMG_0080.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhfrrBXNeTYMeh0PAnAaKWXz1jo75CHtGdbRFBPdySy_W_CWV9OhJv_UcFadHbIRy3RjA6244zKWo5WYIUd4tILNiVI-_v1dWDWrThI51RA0D7Shq3iAJaNou7QrmmLtOQiasZdmCgoHF0zmeu2xW-YWgSxCs-QEE0PvNbedUrJwxmTbR30wVQI0XdGaP/s4032/IMG_0086.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZhfrrBXNeTYMeh0PAnAaKWXz1jo75CHtGdbRFBPdySy_W_CWV9OhJv_UcFadHbIRy3RjA6244zKWo5WYIUd4tILNiVI-_v1dWDWrThI51RA0D7Shq3iAJaNou7QrmmLtOQiasZdmCgoHF0zmeu2xW-YWgSxCs-QEE0PvNbedUrJwxmTbR30wVQI0XdGaP/w400-h300/IMG_0086.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6_67P7kKk_FYcaUn7QDalA0IV2JKnm2IRPl5nY4J-iC6fclTWHA3GBtIgrmTqrxxEXX8IS3Wd5tnvezQvR8bqgDDsXz3fNwPV4IHqeu80HfGWtrdkB5cMXsP5hUCzcdfaG7QJbRSbdiLLGCb4Gwh7v5dFoCF3t6qKa1E_0oyOn3CUroVocVoWKXJTy0F/s4032/IMG_0087.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK6_67P7kKk_FYcaUn7QDalA0IV2JKnm2IRPl5nY4J-iC6fclTWHA3GBtIgrmTqrxxEXX8IS3Wd5tnvezQvR8bqgDDsXz3fNwPV4IHqeu80HfGWtrdkB5cMXsP5hUCzcdfaG7QJbRSbdiLLGCb4Gwh7v5dFoCF3t6qKa1E_0oyOn3CUroVocVoWKXJTy0F/w300-h400/IMG_0087.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>February 2nd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I finally did something I had been wanting for some time - I got my ears pierced! both! And the temporary jewelry is turquoise in colour! Sure, this means I can't go to the sauna for about a month while it heals, and they're very conspicuous (we'll see how this rolls at work), but hey, I've got five medium-to-big-sized tattoos, it's no biggie, right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, we went to Berlin's CTM Festival at Dock11, for a show of digital art and music. Actually, we wanted to watch a Butoh performer, but he switched his performance time without announcing it and we missed it, seeing instead that digital improvisation I mentioned. Which was pretty cool, I'll admit. But we would have loved to see the Butoh artist instead... Anyhow, at least there's never a dearth of art around, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6tWVtRREdJi37W1ymGh-Ixv_MFX5DAsIs9_JMSRKuT_A2IUrup3V978X9jHJiBVlVX5YxIgLvrgelISWfLoWQoNOb1AP34KDUNeOh6dpqsPxFq5uLZZm8aqP2q13j8ytEvNEixLn0cXSf28bO2iL9EjAVoqY_JOHZNOCypaxnYUfDHdhkkkD_YdbfPnV/s4032/IMG_0100.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6tWVtRREdJi37W1ymGh-Ixv_MFX5DAsIs9_JMSRKuT_A2IUrup3V978X9jHJiBVlVX5YxIgLvrgelISWfLoWQoNOb1AP34KDUNeOh6dpqsPxFq5uLZZm8aqP2q13j8ytEvNEixLn0cXSf28bO2iL9EjAVoqY_JOHZNOCypaxnYUfDHdhkkkD_YdbfPnV/w400-h300/IMG_0100.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzaEARarIK5deQ9t6dA32_I4gYoMc5uc4VsuD7OYMzD0EckTfrN2N0xT4R-ExwPiLVwihp0XT7-28t-f_xuNd_Ga6EP-3urdsHkVX7gvskOWAN1_FxctrGb2ejZ9S3oiYKJNpghOQtTy8pcwl6tZz_TMEcYm3GAf9H69AaWlXkBxK-f_HHurQSoysglIqd/s4032/IMG_0105.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzaEARarIK5deQ9t6dA32_I4gYoMc5uc4VsuD7OYMzD0EckTfrN2N0xT4R-ExwPiLVwihp0XT7-28t-f_xuNd_Ga6EP-3urdsHkVX7gvskOWAN1_FxctrGb2ejZ9S3oiYKJNpghOQtTy8pcwl6tZz_TMEcYm3GAf9H69AaWlXkBxK-f_HHurQSoysglIqd/w400-h300/IMG_0105.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>February 3rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today we visited a most interesting exhibition. Or, more accurately put, a couple of halls of a massive and very interesting exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie: "Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft" / "Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society". It occupies a huge chunk of the museum, and we've decided to enjoy it little by little, in order to fully appreciate it. And we started with a room with a fascinating division between East and West after WWII, abstract art and socialist realism. And well, the differences were abysmal. Free, bright, adventurous shapes and colours on one side of the room (with Fritz Winter, Calder, Rothko, Judit Reigl, Arp, etc.), representing the western block; and formally well executed, but somewhat dull, images on the other side (Wieland Förster's was the only really moving piece, about the deaths of Dresden), including a painting called "Defining the plan" or something like that, which was as inspiring as you imagine it. This represented the communist block.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqygnGw3WiIcHEsy1Iif64_aZYraxwSZrY4eIbgseg3XxVBZOHBDuDxY1keG6tbxYynlFhYGypg-_MNAPI5xSjoEK1llMVqOYMv-7VaVM35maiWD-twOF4em06T-nQivoNfsUUEaflVNbarB6dMy46mlIDKA4lRx-y6jswUPiHbwYUvsTokV6sgVJaKsH/s4032/IMG_0117.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqygnGw3WiIcHEsy1Iif64_aZYraxwSZrY4eIbgseg3XxVBZOHBDuDxY1keG6tbxYynlFhYGypg-_MNAPI5xSjoEK1llMVqOYMv-7VaVM35maiWD-twOF4em06T-nQivoNfsUUEaflVNbarB6dMy46mlIDKA4lRx-y6jswUPiHbwYUvsTokV6sgVJaKsH/w400-h300/IMG_0117.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQXWAcvzS6oPz55AYBnzysIScxJ9jZs-AxkAJtwI03kI7A0w88pmPhm6-GI92peN1hFqXWGwlOvHQ2rBpTHpeC8JEvVRK4mR1fMUIvD3ULUTBJUC2_Q6QFSnyHivD0L7m92Rrfey5mbt4cKBG_AqmDP0ljIGP3c4Y_Z4UJA8eSi6-dYD3RApSnj4Tjib5/s4032/IMG_0119.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxQXWAcvzS6oPz55AYBnzysIScxJ9jZs-AxkAJtwI03kI7A0w88pmPhm6-GI92peN1hFqXWGwlOvHQ2rBpTHpeC8JEvVRK4mR1fMUIvD3ULUTBJUC2_Q6QFSnyHivD0L7m92Rrfey5mbt4cKBG_AqmDP0ljIGP3c4Y_Z4UJA8eSi6-dYD3RApSnj4Tjib5/w300-h400/IMG_0119.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrA3Lj0fPj7sdI5QbUL_0aizWsjTCAP6neGb2hnnWHmEoM9U5qsOB5VU_i5c0ZfxaEHIB6M99MwNjwxFt6qCZ8TimVw5nfa5GwJbAP77K1ns_1NCTw0bYsRtyfxzxFN44IYCvzHNIuQmKEdvMzxCUHIdfc0O_jt_bWGqafohZ2v6vup27wH25n_rCIH5H/s4032/IMG_0121.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcrA3Lj0fPj7sdI5QbUL_0aizWsjTCAP6neGb2hnnWHmEoM9U5qsOB5VU_i5c0ZfxaEHIB6M99MwNjwxFt6qCZ8TimVw5nfa5GwJbAP77K1ns_1NCTw0bYsRtyfxzxFN44IYCvzHNIuQmKEdvMzxCUHIdfc0O_jt_bWGqafohZ2v6vup27wH25n_rCIH5H/w300-h400/IMG_0121.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-rFhzJgvFGyB8gB084ohAXN_0DBBwSJepW5geUAdrTmkHpnmShv_wJO-ojyGtcIh_9DgrKUqRS_5wc6CtQwuPZ4mFZm0j3AajI6HArgB7LzdNRFGnXtUCOMschVfXxNglhHJBTLJloOyJ_tSVlAJnw04C-p7CSff0miGpC6uu0tZWwU2otc06hTBEaTW/s4032/IMG_0123.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-rFhzJgvFGyB8gB084ohAXN_0DBBwSJepW5geUAdrTmkHpnmShv_wJO-ojyGtcIh_9DgrKUqRS_5wc6CtQwuPZ4mFZm0j3AajI6HArgB7LzdNRFGnXtUCOMschVfXxNglhHJBTLJloOyJ_tSVlAJnw04C-p7CSff0miGpC6uu0tZWwU2otc06hTBEaTW/w400-h300/IMG_0123.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSBG6XYFrT4QDg0N0b7vcek5SH8SdBIsG0bLXdUJYkjHe0jfie1bQu4bfUZGWkVBHsSStH8yy66QoZsIgBPkp3lIaDkJcx4076TnOOddrk7yYmlzX5MNTItum0QqbpOxwt7mrW7kerLJWbeHHPogc3BP7qJtuTLvzMpf2v9_PLbXF9hz6Cb6kQecidOXc/s4032/IMG_0125.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSBG6XYFrT4QDg0N0b7vcek5SH8SdBIsG0bLXdUJYkjHe0jfie1bQu4bfUZGWkVBHsSStH8yy66QoZsIgBPkp3lIaDkJcx4076TnOOddrk7yYmlzX5MNTItum0QqbpOxwt7mrW7kerLJWbeHHPogc3BP7qJtuTLvzMpf2v9_PLbXF9hz6Cb6kQecidOXc/w400-h300/IMG_0125.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">From there, we moved to post-war art, centred on angst, instability, fear, despair, pain... the colours, the shapes, the themes... So striking. We saw Strawalde, Bacon, Lee Bontecou, Metzkes, Jenny Holzer...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGeBsdXuKil6djgUk0qmmnTyOWgpWP83iV3p-y3JEI6E_wgwEkF6JtF0EXt5ap0ds4tpT9GutsMr5rVrST_x_2oQCIBFbcwPQu6ec3zJ3FxUEzZn7bjobAM9W-GhOaKX9SJ3NJvuaDD4UuksUzHN1xWO2a8GMKpNq_jc0GeGE84OLBA5fDHEyxdkJhDB_/s4032/IMG_0129.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGeBsdXuKil6djgUk0qmmnTyOWgpWP83iV3p-y3JEI6E_wgwEkF6JtF0EXt5ap0ds4tpT9GutsMr5rVrST_x_2oQCIBFbcwPQu6ec3zJ3FxUEzZn7bjobAM9W-GhOaKX9SJ3NJvuaDD4UuksUzHN1xWO2a8GMKpNq_jc0GeGE84OLBA5fDHEyxdkJhDB_/w300-h400/IMG_0129.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3DFww2DZDsKBF9N6QIs9wI5Pbb3BBbemVjUF8bz3CCPAZKE8OXxaszSmUHmYJbFDNM3J6SsRgwItI4sgqc1r5Jx1gcW55DIgo_mioymi5s573Ed8thTVgtRVMsGDuN_f20Q6KAAGGW4-MDlOT0rBy7pT3zOpsNEgYS5s9XGcDMJzzTxNU_KXWOs6ASc6/s4032/IMG_0131.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE3DFww2DZDsKBF9N6QIs9wI5Pbb3BBbemVjUF8bz3CCPAZKE8OXxaszSmUHmYJbFDNM3J6SsRgwItI4sgqc1r5Jx1gcW55DIgo_mioymi5s573Ed8thTVgtRVMsGDuN_f20Q6KAAGGW4-MDlOT0rBy7pT3zOpsNEgYS5s9XGcDMJzzTxNU_KXWOs6ASc6/w300-h400/IMG_0131.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jiRKj3CjVEPrbcnkR6mAZlt56QSZnHcjXAA9R4imsg7_eTSRi8bzmI-HpgS6JEfz3yowxAgsBIGIE7vObSsrg5As1dLy426S4AjLdN2A0GS6tcsZsdUcIHFVt7MM0NLn4IEHzEhm-6PydtdnPT0Q3TeaAJhX1O8UICUU8gRZKJiJ0UCfmKv2yr2hjkmt/s4032/IMG_0132.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jiRKj3CjVEPrbcnkR6mAZlt56QSZnHcjXAA9R4imsg7_eTSRi8bzmI-HpgS6JEfz3yowxAgsBIGIE7vObSsrg5As1dLy426S4AjLdN2A0GS6tcsZsdUcIHFVt7MM0NLn4IEHzEhm-6PydtdnPT0Q3TeaAJhX1O8UICUU8gRZKJiJ0UCfmKv2yr2hjkmt/w400-h300/IMG_0132.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We could have seen more. But we decided to savour the exhibition slowly, and instead headed for Café Luzia for some coffee, cake and reading. I love that place in Kottbusser Tor, and I'm so close to finishing my Three Body Problem novel!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikypik9ci81bxXl-kagIVO25USg_mdoBtl7NQtPwDdkMKY7gOwhhCTe52we2_aoh0a80-C5di9DI4QB9sHCDHGuoWn-xbqs_xLBbib10B3mMThyphenhyphenExzysbQ-sK6ctIKjjLd4gkmorjDZhobmwDnnFs-otYYk7fETh9EK0TB-7PkoW9Hu56Z9WP2ybdt4Mie/s4032/IMG_0141.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikypik9ci81bxXl-kagIVO25USg_mdoBtl7NQtPwDdkMKY7gOwhhCTe52we2_aoh0a80-C5di9DI4QB9sHCDHGuoWn-xbqs_xLBbib10B3mMThyphenhyphenExzysbQ-sK6ctIKjjLd4gkmorjDZhobmwDnnFs-otYYk7fETh9EK0TB-7PkoW9Hu56Z9WP2ybdt4Mie/w400-h300/IMG_0141.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, since we were still in the area, and since we decided to disregard the eternal Berlin rain, we went to a place we had never been to: Markthalle Neun, an indoor market! It was full of delicious food and drink, but we settled for a bowl of Turkish manti (dumplings, with yogourt, a spicy broth, sumac, and chilli), a cinnamon focaccia, and a promise to go back to eat oysters with wine and try some beer too. I liked the place!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEvKy9TcSju8JBBbqpdwafcXDjmvzEnf4AfhN0r4dgOsoD2ovg42u-7XkxFQ5ewQMVuBptAn8LxdfxyJgiPXNgXkfvNWDOo8OAjlMhUjWHeQ7yjYgk-3X8Baa-dDHLX0CjEJBAMjlKYFqln3FGIXY9itYuUUd44XkR7WYprQHktLvVINlikmj03ZDIzvB/s4032/IMG_0142.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmEvKy9TcSju8JBBbqpdwafcXDjmvzEnf4AfhN0r4dgOsoD2ovg42u-7XkxFQ5ewQMVuBptAn8LxdfxyJgiPXNgXkfvNWDOo8OAjlMhUjWHeQ7yjYgk-3X8Baa-dDHLX0CjEJBAMjlKYFqln3FGIXY9itYuUUd44XkR7WYprQHktLvVINlikmj03ZDIzvB/w400-h300/IMG_0142.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6fp8Yl-WNVp0saXfXcskZR7KKBr2OoS4KPlkD0eRA-XUOqXS5tUo09c6S5nXa7Ph-wYU99BZkgNw6Wh0GAmzJS6j2hVspzsH98ocb39BjeOcOSK0EoJRgvQiVeSvVXXSjnI2DW3nR9jI6-BiXhWVzcZVxJv5aHHPbZ09v8P3T_IuHqRgEAOX7g6GVh3ug/s4032/IMG_0143.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6fp8Yl-WNVp0saXfXcskZR7KKBr2OoS4KPlkD0eRA-XUOqXS5tUo09c6S5nXa7Ph-wYU99BZkgNw6Wh0GAmzJS6j2hVspzsH98ocb39BjeOcOSK0EoJRgvQiVeSvVXXSjnI2DW3nR9jI6-BiXhWVzcZVxJv5aHHPbZ09v8P3T_IuHqRgEAOX7g6GVh3ug/w400-h300/IMG_0143.jpeg" width="400" /></a> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-58426873279347239792024-01-22T04:00:00.009+08:002024-02-06T02:58:26.312+08:00Siu Hon, or Minor Cold and Japanism vs menstrual blood<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>this is a summary of our life in Berlin during </i><i>Siu Hon </i><span style="text-align: left;"><i>小寒 (</i></span><i>January 6th to January 19th)</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 6th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We found this lovely café called Ben Rahim, in the Hackessche Höfe. Nice place, good for reading. But not only was the coffee good, they also had some croissants filled with cheese... and halva! Wow! What a delicious mix!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4aFKmRkvzLetoVPt4CcpeG5RvNk9F4u0dmfsGFfqZ7eoZ0jZm3Jz0SzxvwQZBfKDVUlnL8gutFW5GWI9jAPzCl87oR5oeFoBG0QsYqxyenVtODCyS89fEP8AvgVmieAKeuxamZHcTrLD-HrxEYAoINeLVEJTWlKpFfY9vtAPvwyelFB5HtF7ofGH024yw/s4032/IMG_9438.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4aFKmRkvzLetoVPt4CcpeG5RvNk9F4u0dmfsGFfqZ7eoZ0jZm3Jz0SzxvwQZBfKDVUlnL8gutFW5GWI9jAPzCl87oR5oeFoBG0QsYqxyenVtODCyS89fEP8AvgVmieAKeuxamZHcTrLD-HrxEYAoINeLVEJTWlKpFfY9vtAPvwyelFB5HtF7ofGH024yw/w400-h300/IMG_9438.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, after a drink at Möbel Olfe (hadn't been there in a long time!) we ran into some friends, and then we all headed to a place called Ficken 3000. Very much my style – alternative, good music, intimate (like Möbel Olfe). And they had a magazine where one of our friends appeared talking about antisemitism in Berlin!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEqeB3gunM5JQAY4qt-djpCkLlxp9y_oWtQ5T0rrQ5ZaF5_3hX0zEZ7fgzO8UX0-jcu1DCYiSTkSVicw5l_RXXrrR5EVQ9e5xXG1fOyIgIchThL0AsBNl9qIY3Hd2afF81Zbq-MMEBBu4PeaevqlYY1hFhcQGtYL7XvJzx2iGJXo0QTiabASIdpEBmf3Wl/s4032/IMG_9444.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEqeB3gunM5JQAY4qt-djpCkLlxp9y_oWtQ5T0rrQ5ZaF5_3hX0zEZ7fgzO8UX0-jcu1DCYiSTkSVicw5l_RXXrrR5EVQ9e5xXG1fOyIgIchThL0AsBNl9qIY3Hd2afF81Zbq-MMEBBu4PeaevqlYY1hFhcQGtYL7XvJzx2iGJXo0QTiabASIdpEBmf3Wl/w300-h400/IMG_9444.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, the habibi was too tired to stay long. But we've definitely marked it as a place to come back to for sure!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 7th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We had brunch at Beba, at Gropius Bau. We hadn't eaten here in ages! And their buffet is just so good! With Jewish recipes from all over, there are roasted Jerusalem artichokes, shakshuka, kigel, fresh challah bread... What a delight!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCSeYdT570TNmWtdh0Xa3RqoNXif-IRMbpjpPv9u4I8nv_YokHCiOVnV_HPWh5SHgPXimEPZDvljTyagO9oeQGUiV1SLq6GzOixxPWv_GIwVQN8tFxHZnonkbTUxCDBx_ze9_Xnw-iHKPosgdA8FMcXHsIPKlVQWjuNLG8Sl5GF2rva_yDJ6dIfgk72wHY/s4032/IMG_9445.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCSeYdT570TNmWtdh0Xa3RqoNXif-IRMbpjpPv9u4I8nv_YokHCiOVnV_HPWh5SHgPXimEPZDvljTyagO9oeQGUiV1SLq6GzOixxPWv_GIwVQN8tFxHZnonkbTUxCDBx_ze9_Xnw-iHKPosgdA8FMcXHsIPKlVQWjuNLG8Sl5GF2rva_yDJ6dIfgk72wHY/w400-h300/IMG_9445.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, while waiting for the habibi to come and see a movie in Kottbusser Tor, I noticed a café I'd never seen, Fräulein Wild, with cakes to die for! I had a coffee (a café creme, they make them so well!), a lime baiser (so zesty!) and read for a while. What a relaxed weekend, right?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvX-Hqb5qSbLpMulquC4-oeWQcx9eIGWEcdo4TX3qQh52UZLMVu_YP6pPpB9ZArzXI2zA9DZjzHlK1bcv9IYan7um1fBjLjQhMy2GdQeEE33GWfuaXcIARyKgL2cTASND4tju6LIs8j1suImgANWv0xufvl6gQIZMr7YDCwUyhVCzGNRr8WTgF_grIhws/s4032/IMG_9447.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvX-Hqb5qSbLpMulquC4-oeWQcx9eIGWEcdo4TX3qQh52UZLMVu_YP6pPpB9ZArzXI2zA9DZjzHlK1bcv9IYan7um1fBjLjQhMy2GdQeEE33GWfuaXcIARyKgL2cTASND4tju6LIs8j1suImgANWv0xufvl6gQIZMr7YDCwUyhVCzGNRr8WTgF_grIhws/w400-h300/IMG_9447.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 8th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The sun came out! The sun came out! And it was so cold, the ponds around Tiergarten had some ice! So beautiful. But more importantly, it was sunny!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid5i_fTGVtGpRlsiK7i4k8huyXI3ETsFo7C3HYO4oUnFFvFWkZPldH5lPOVlowGFBuPAsCvb2MQDX0eyUXxouVu46xLMgZfONUOm0H77qRaA4pD60mFDUwvNIGvu2A4-3tgpeniz_Lp9kc4ttuHr_MNYExFvsqERYKp7xO5ZY5TcP-QR-ZkzWtBIB_WnlX/s4032/IMG_9452.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid5i_fTGVtGpRlsiK7i4k8huyXI3ETsFo7C3HYO4oUnFFvFWkZPldH5lPOVlowGFBuPAsCvb2MQDX0eyUXxouVu46xLMgZfONUOm0H77qRaA4pD60mFDUwvNIGvu2A4-3tgpeniz_Lp9kc4ttuHr_MNYExFvsqERYKp7xO5ZY5TcP-QR-ZkzWtBIB_WnlX/w400-h300/IMG_9452.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 11th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, what did I find out on my lunch walk around Tiergarten? That there was some sun (honestly, what a precious, scarce resource!), and that people were walking on the frozen ponds! Some were even skating! Of course, was there any chance on earth I was not gonna try that? Of course not! I did tap forcefully with one foot (while balancing on my other leg firmly planted on the ground) on the ice. It looked firm enough. I took some steps, listened for any cracking or anything... nothing. Yay! It was so much fun! I love walking on frozen water! Sure, the habibi later told me it was an amazing idea for me, right out after a cold that had me at home for three days, to go stand on a frozen body of water and risk falling through. But I just couldn't help it! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKVkLW3_Nic5YGNUo5RvYlOsi_hY6UjbtylxUIUfEN5dZLrihhlPsfYw8hT6Dhw2RuaX1y4vs4Rn4bTfPXJ1EdnCR-CR9UThrVqIFE1OvN-SKZS_HspuEuMCVkJcQfxFrb9yOyIOQ_J0QbI5tO48ZxSYGI5Ev_Pc-E8Xz75_cwbEAneUSJaRszUlpm5zB/s4032/IMG_9456.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKVkLW3_Nic5YGNUo5RvYlOsi_hY6UjbtylxUIUfEN5dZLrihhlPsfYw8hT6Dhw2RuaX1y4vs4Rn4bTfPXJ1EdnCR-CR9UThrVqIFE1OvN-SKZS_HspuEuMCVkJcQfxFrb9yOyIOQ_J0QbI5tO48ZxSYGI5Ev_Pc-E8Xz75_cwbEAneUSJaRszUlpm5zB/w400-h300/IMG_9456.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWkRx9-GnWwpTXv6Vf1XSUbfWU9EQUDzENnIUcKuSMohyphenhyphenqrzRRVPt5B5US41IdLtL1Um71iC1pe3IO72XnbrsFLSv20YZW9jEn4AMiSPkkeTeGQAoMXkOuUwiRjTECmFzdW4IQHojboM9hC6iRDj7Hk-HABK9BvdUyhhlRJggbtvEsDp9pxmyLBrb9oko/s4032/IMG_9463.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQWkRx9-GnWwpTXv6Vf1XSUbfWU9EQUDzENnIUcKuSMohyphenhyphenqrzRRVPt5B5US41IdLtL1Um71iC1pe3IO72XnbrsFLSv20YZW9jEn4AMiSPkkeTeGQAoMXkOuUwiRjTECmFzdW4IQHojboM9hC6iRDj7Hk-HABK9BvdUyhhlRJggbtvEsDp9pxmyLBrb9oko/w400-h300/IMG_9463.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0qlO6AGRgDBVFNUR2IenXLbrnVFcxn23U3wcR654V6K8KfElJrhwS8-sVxwMHChlDYufy6xz3zEEfWTllEz_QuSXISqXbTN_zWdbjvO7NnS04xES3uYrTaErdn8SWntvRxAw9NCcU19HWvhCBjLIiFG9HyGqM8wZYHzrGJH1QoaBMAFJJ5-qbk5edI-S/s4032/IMG_9472.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0qlO6AGRgDBVFNUR2IenXLbrnVFcxn23U3wcR654V6K8KfElJrhwS8-sVxwMHChlDYufy6xz3zEEfWTllEz_QuSXISqXbTN_zWdbjvO7NnS04xES3uYrTaErdn8SWntvRxAw9NCcU19HWvhCBjLIiFG9HyGqM8wZYHzrGJH1QoaBMAFJJ5-qbk5edI-S/w300-h400/IMG_9472.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 13th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">By this moment I had fully recovered from a cold I had. Nothing serious, just a very high fever and lack of energy. But this morning? I felt totally fine! Of course, this meant a full day of activities! We went to the gym, then we went to the Bröhan Museum... And this museum? Wow, so awesome. First, there was an Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) exhibition. They had stunning furniture (including a table with fireflies for legs), gorgeous Japanese-inspired vases, and even some political-inspired art that made reference to the Armenian genocide and to the Dreyfus Affair! Oh, and a series of prints about Paris, but inspired by Hokusai! Posters, a video of Loïe Fuller dancing... 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One was about Bauhaus-inspired ceramics by a company owned by Margarete Heyman-Loebenstein. And for sure, being Jewish, the coming to power of the Nazis spelled the end of a company and of a really promising career producing amazing and lovely products like tea sets, plates, and whatnot. Such a shame.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsPx-0EfSapXiP26eg3qzhHzHKrWZQ_hdXuds7Q2xiwetNx-Ks8lpsqb-4QyY4sdjgRgOPn6sgN37PbCIIVZBcLE-a3ADPEx4HUbEacTD125qsS_6VnoWpyziyNh5z7Xbp9J5mx9J0eOb8yq0phgwDAw_b2yus3dQ8gj1vDLRk8Idbh5jUZkMfm1ggmc9/s4032/IMG_9538.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsPx-0EfSapXiP26eg3qzhHzHKrWZQ_hdXuds7Q2xiwetNx-Ks8lpsqb-4QyY4sdjgRgOPn6sgN37PbCIIVZBcLE-a3ADPEx4HUbEacTD125qsS_6VnoWpyziyNh5z7Xbp9J5mx9J0eOb8yq0phgwDAw_b2yus3dQ8gj1vDLRk8Idbh5jUZkMfm1ggmc9/w400-h300/IMG_9538.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3uHfBMuyaZTQpX2t60v2ud5iXe8Nl5FKiX6Byo8g0YveiS6R38csZMBd3SnxGhM9r4FwkZco__edK9HnFbgVw2I0BxM8GlHVhNGQiI4bMR5nzhd1iDq1J3I388lRgIKkUfo11XnJ54WIpYf0aBF6AAyYq2LKk6NLSX4FO5iIiJOLQ8m5pPAePHwSsgEi/s4032/IMG_9541.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR3uHfBMuyaZTQpX2t60v2ud5iXe8Nl5FKiX6Byo8g0YveiS6R38csZMBd3SnxGhM9r4FwkZco__edK9HnFbgVw2I0BxM8GlHVhNGQiI4bMR5nzhd1iDq1J3I388lRgIKkUfo11XnJ54WIpYf0aBF6AAyYq2LKk6NLSX4FO5iIiJOLQ8m5pPAePHwSsgEi/w400-h300/IMG_9541.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwViAc6LGib2iHDzDVhNkiQ-SbfWIpXC9UzdJC1MDq3soWWbNqT4e7jb8c1wTC54kSfPAeFeMoPswpvlutGAdnYoFjTaNrayiv_cKY-MtHn_Nae4G_H1jZxKec_qYGd5WjEuaeW64dQhOwe4XwRJU7gkE9RXILz4352TXW9pRrOsnE-DKOUrg2Cc-K1R3/s4032/IMG_9543.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHwViAc6LGib2iHDzDVhNkiQ-SbfWIpXC9UzdJC1MDq3soWWbNqT4e7jb8c1wTC54kSfPAeFeMoPswpvlutGAdnYoFjTaNrayiv_cKY-MtHn_Nae4G_H1jZxKec_qYGd5WjEuaeW64dQhOwe4XwRJU7gkE9RXILz4352TXW9pRrOsnE-DKOUrg2Cc-K1R3/w300-h400/IMG_9543.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was followed by a Czech Avantgarde exhibition, of Czechoslovakia between wars finding a very modern identity in architecture, painting, sculpture, poetry, dance... what a time and what an explosion of creativity! Of course, also, how shortlived...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7QiKoyo2FNklXRK39kNXnDX_ZipwpWkE6EqABAI0LSdOswqmCYfRqNGn2GlGM_cTNv3Z-UoRllGdPO1b1KE-Uk0zMVtTTbgvMcy3k0g3eWKP31XpIg4Qjr0a25geNI7Hegrve9wVH3V9uU3e1wGXljkjGmnKJxU6sNlBtceTY3aLbzD0UnlKrMSDXROC/s4032/IMG_9547.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn7QiKoyo2FNklXRK39kNXnDX_ZipwpWkE6EqABAI0LSdOswqmCYfRqNGn2GlGM_cTNv3Z-UoRllGdPO1b1KE-Uk0zMVtTTbgvMcy3k0g3eWKP31XpIg4Qjr0a25geNI7Hegrve9wVH3V9uU3e1wGXljkjGmnKJxU6sNlBtceTY3aLbzD0UnlKrMSDXROC/w300-h400/IMG_9547.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5jRZ9SJ-Jah-vmX5ahS30uYCmBnsxZZy_zNq4I-OXGRtbSiUNDOUFtoxeibdtB41Z1Gqqo_g3rZzqPg1mSuKLfZ7_ZAMCupC4-p9CymyMMExr9cxAQJDq8c5UbvhqWOUjICLN6r6qbG60Gnh-hf6NfcegHjQPx4F9C8oGVe1cWnpBh2JnH8WefAzug7ac/s4032/IMG_9548.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5jRZ9SJ-Jah-vmX5ahS30uYCmBnsxZZy_zNq4I-OXGRtbSiUNDOUFtoxeibdtB41Z1Gqqo_g3rZzqPg1mSuKLfZ7_ZAMCupC4-p9CymyMMExr9cxAQJDq8c5UbvhqWOUjICLN6r6qbG60Gnh-hf6NfcegHjQPx4F9C8oGVe1cWnpBh2JnH8WefAzug7ac/w400-h300/IMG_9548.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeOmkgQPESjEse2ZkvBG7fMP5ovnphWIyceitByGkoYSdUtjKXNpeCVYz2LehjxnKsfuwSjc5_TiwuoYWpH3bQHPOTZVe-d8yS5pndrREETvwyr1T3l1wLmOW4_oadiO-1aHvh8h2we3KQV8UFlWpkRgVYQ5MwttZGXUsiYZdqTuwUgO2tK6tJ_oUHPMr/s4032/IMG_9549.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPeOmkgQPESjEse2ZkvBG7fMP5ovnphWIyceitByGkoYSdUtjKXNpeCVYz2LehjxnKsfuwSjc5_TiwuoYWpH3bQHPOTZVe-d8yS5pndrREETvwyr1T3l1wLmOW4_oadiO-1aHvh8h2we3KQV8UFlWpkRgVYQ5MwttZGXUsiYZdqTuwUgO2tK6tJ_oUHPMr/w300-h400/IMG_9549.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">After dinner at a German restaurant followed by a nap, we went to a party I'd been waiting long to go to: Horse Meat Disco, at Prince Charles! We decided to avoid the lineups, so we arrived at 10 pm, and by 10:30 pm we were already in! Yay! I love this party - the disco-like music is amazing, people dress fabulous even though there is no dress code, everybody is so friendly and in such a great mood... And the habibi actually likes this one too and came along! Yay! He left earlier, though, while I left at almost 8 am. So happy, so satisfied. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBMsgU92PLn9Ef96IDa58TnI9Bfhz-KYYfEI1Z5rrFXDAP7iYEN4rRkr5-7zYf1uMRil6CszyS2BcrL7PnAvZQfHcExgD8mQwzVpjgCABj3HSBklpH7jbOQXJrbULVt1FBA_GrNo-hAMeN_SwU1vLsLvsSbGgOFUHTEUqJhtBgYmA_Dqy5KYVLcFh9LLb/s4032/IMG_9568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBMsgU92PLn9Ef96IDa58TnI9Bfhz-KYYfEI1Z5rrFXDAP7iYEN4rRkr5-7zYf1uMRil6CszyS2BcrL7PnAvZQfHcExgD8mQwzVpjgCABj3HSBklpH7jbOQXJrbULVt1FBA_GrNo-hAMeN_SwU1vLsLvsSbGgOFUHTEUqJhtBgYmA_Dqy5KYVLcFh9LLb/w300-h400/IMG_9568.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8tHXusDpyGsJva5yQXaxq_wIuq1SyHRbZ2Jv1pZ0ivXtY0ETbnP_Sb4czTI8L90Nn7c9y8_TPxmSOE7WTP7DGkTTx1n-p2I36JoiXCi4zt1R_hlneGPdJqrpw8epjOw5_UVw2o37e6OHVoOYmKBdJLSFv6a_xTMr-8ByUnWVq-LojMAizDZNGk1TA3XkU/s4032/IMG_9575.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8tHXusDpyGsJva5yQXaxq_wIuq1SyHRbZ2Jv1pZ0ivXtY0ETbnP_Sb4czTI8L90Nn7c9y8_TPxmSOE7WTP7DGkTTx1n-p2I36JoiXCi4zt1R_hlneGPdJqrpw8epjOw5_UVw2o37e6OHVoOYmKBdJLSFv6a_xTMr-8ByUnWVq-LojMAizDZNGk1TA3XkU/w400-h300/IMG_9575.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-oYK5ySSa0zae7rylPgllwsug2A-DJQuRdFB0rBd5YmRjiX7HujZO4QDaYeb3oq_xS31uwLCEN7WYIPfXOPMWUz52GLTCNeXnWEQPXYTpPYK7_p_yYG5tIEDBADULK7jSTRk2vgYR1_xLrFasjzk-7McFkM6Mj4MBow0Kxl8wIp5NKlp6ML-qOa_UDtu/s4032/IMG_9576.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-oYK5ySSa0zae7rylPgllwsug2A-DJQuRdFB0rBd5YmRjiX7HujZO4QDaYeb3oq_xS31uwLCEN7WYIPfXOPMWUz52GLTCNeXnWEQPXYTpPYK7_p_yYG5tIEDBADULK7jSTRk2vgYR1_xLrFasjzk-7McFkM6Mj4MBow0Kxl8wIp5NKlp6ML-qOa_UDtu/w400-h300/IMG_9576.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 14th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We visited the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Dahlem, at the Freie Universität Berlin, to see "Flow - The Exhibition on Menstruation". Wow. What a good exhibition. But, before I get into it, there was an item by the entrance, a very thoughtful reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, actually contemplating multiple narratives and focusing on what matters - humanity and pain. I'm always so happy to find something that doesn't try to demonize one side or the other...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyN4fDHcbvd5ECEh1_R3GnEb6BRkUkbpnCUJtmvcSC7RhP3EEufj9Q1Urs5JkRan6GG0KzzE359n_vE9_ANSqnSCKa5sAftEhNTq-9iV07WkD1UcLTJSrDmCp94Rlk16HznQ26XlQzCFAER7BGVJ15AT7S7FaZ9_UhofQwKrMTo58I587FSr5xDVPYFdJw/s4032/IMG_9587.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyN4fDHcbvd5ECEh1_R3GnEb6BRkUkbpnCUJtmvcSC7RhP3EEufj9Q1Urs5JkRan6GG0KzzE359n_vE9_ANSqnSCKa5sAftEhNTq-9iV07WkD1UcLTJSrDmCp94Rlk16HznQ26XlQzCFAER7BGVJ15AT7S7FaZ9_UhofQwKrMTo58I587FSr5xDVPYFdJw/w300-h400/IMG_9587.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But now, back to the exhibition. Sure, very Germanocentric, but very interesting! What a history women have had with menstruation, and what a ridiculously recent and bumpy road it's been for them to be able to move around comfortably, while being bombarded with myths and negative messages about something that happens to most of them (and to trans people) regularly! There was mention of racism regarding products invented by black women, about co-opting of products by the Nazis, about art created inspired by menstruation... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Honestly, like a message at the exhibition said, had men been the menstruating people, menstruation would be a thing to boast, or brag about, or something you would not have to worry about hiding or disguising... A really cool exhibition.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8Fv-Uw8kOq0nV7V_hhamz85XP5C1ip6J38UiXJGRmzc2bKK3klfDKVyuM01Y7hXhi15cXWS0ntaFTIw9Vk23pT9h8s2b6U9dUNx85df8m57VOhdlGKBlKYU-mxHvdeZ9fZjrHho2-9KVocUrdpZbPnZgpGuMu-TDjnF7PsdW-0vl8resDYr2tb8m5NjC/s4032/IMG_9595.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8Fv-Uw8kOq0nV7V_hhamz85XP5C1ip6J38UiXJGRmzc2bKK3klfDKVyuM01Y7hXhi15cXWS0ntaFTIw9Vk23pT9h8s2b6U9dUNx85df8m57VOhdlGKBlKYU-mxHvdeZ9fZjrHho2-9KVocUrdpZbPnZgpGuMu-TDjnF7PsdW-0vl8resDYr2tb8m5NjC/w300-h400/IMG_9595.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ck8K-HKKqQrS4l1ubsKOnpQ0DP13kw1Sa-vxfixJEekgm-tsAMybbNrBE8llYD5A2Srrc8DyFIFde2eTbwanizSKzUrc7i0pp5UaxA-97qHDP9H_yHySJX8x-hZ7kzfK-Yi2rUj-CGy-qj7rrMUoH9208tGeGpJTZuxXpjf7xhEvzKLTrUxi5UklAfwC/s4032/IMG_9597.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We've had a couple of days with brief glimpses of the sun, along with snow! This has made my walks around Tiergarten such a pleasure! Really, wow, sunshine? snow? what a treat!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaVaZEnY5sc_jbYg-rwkvo37DHmCRn7_-r6TL84U8OKytmYNcdbDsmmBbdNTmK4gH4SP8thD4gJhzk3rBHhbAHR8Dq9HdJJUPyLg6PhYGc7seoMWdyB8Ne-KYVeIAZPMDvnOPdRW2VKyCRBAnN_s-bmi_sQhbD56wte5xpQlkzDXJ5xjDMrTVhaFum0jW/s4032/IMG_9663.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDaVaZEnY5sc_jbYg-rwkvo37DHmCRn7_-r6TL84U8OKytmYNcdbDsmmBbdNTmK4gH4SP8thD4gJhzk3rBHhbAHR8Dq9HdJJUPyLg6PhYGc7seoMWdyB8Ne-KYVeIAZPMDvnOPdRW2VKyCRBAnN_s-bmi_sQhbD56wte5xpQlkzDXJ5xjDMrTVhaFum0jW/w400-h300/IMG_9663.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrCEvXCZ9PSSuLbOTKjnBFw_KgJhc3Cla3uU35U40fo0elFdgXblaE5n5iIIOUgdcz7BdKfehAyKPuBZhAegP746aSKaFBVH76cDCYl2o_hHdfWmrXhP7kIbnspPuSNleGmz3U_4WvxSVBY6QAjO-Si2INwmWK5F04zlGHNsUMkOnKj-eGcbpJRdsSKTu/s4032/IMG_9669.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrCEvXCZ9PSSuLbOTKjnBFw_KgJhc3Cla3uU35U40fo0elFdgXblaE5n5iIIOUgdcz7BdKfehAyKPuBZhAegP746aSKaFBVH76cDCYl2o_hHdfWmrXhP7kIbnspPuSNleGmz3U_4WvxSVBY6QAjO-Si2INwmWK5F04zlGHNsUMkOnKj-eGcbpJRdsSKTu/w400-h300/IMG_9669.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRPEd4WHOdawRII4HqA0h52TJjH38a8Gmi2STr13SdZSoz9GDUo9OT9mak6rZjnumARvi59Q8jpxDFO7AspYxzSFlV2kFydBK3aqCWCvNopOG7FrDsSgeHbOtc0pUOzNsyvSx4uahmqCY17acQuY0TKcStgUMl5smkgVJ4rT7WiLPt45esre7C3z8m0Tv/s4032/IMG_9683.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRRPEd4WHOdawRII4HqA0h52TJjH38a8Gmi2STr13SdZSoz9GDUo9OT9mak6rZjnumARvi59Q8jpxDFO7AspYxzSFlV2kFydBK3aqCWCvNopOG7FrDsSgeHbOtc0pUOzNsyvSx4uahmqCY17acQuY0TKcStgUMl5smkgVJ4rT7WiLPt45esre7C3z8m0Tv/w300-h400/IMG_9683.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>January 19th</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The situation in Gaza and with Israel keeps getting worse and the future keeps getting looking hopeless. I keep seeing people yelling at and past each other, with just a tiny minority trying to think about a potential future of peace. And so, torn from all sides, unable to and exhausted from commenting, all I could do, once more, is write...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJeJU77jlRreEiY9L7tN1dpJi-ekLpIWVfMtmQgpTYZ3oNasY3VHgqeE00r_tGT3T9m18c20hSiMkuGxupEksdn3iGkIsQnj7EsaOMBErbRzJ4Z6syGt9K3UsXDvD5UMO4lPAMRsBh0irf-aA0jfxXXGxWGskNBY2QearYLpJ5d1VeAi1VCeEFHBqtb6q/s1951/IMG_9941.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1951" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjJeJU77jlRreEiY9L7tN1dpJi-ekLpIWVfMtmQgpTYZ3oNasY3VHgqeE00r_tGT3T9m18c20hSiMkuGxupEksdn3iGkIsQnj7EsaOMBErbRzJ4Z6syGt9K3UsXDvD5UMO4lPAMRsBh0irf-aA0jfxXXGxWGskNBY2QearYLpJ5d1VeAi1VCeEFHBqtb6q/w255-h400/IMG_9941.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Thankfully, that same night something else happened...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Tipsy Bear is a bar in Prenzlauer Berg, and it's a safe space for trans people and allies. In fact, one of its events, Yalla Hafla, is actually even a safe space for Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Israelis... All in all, it's a really special bar with awesome people. And on the 19th they held an event at iconic SO36 in Kottbusser Tor, called "Are ya sick of us yet?". In 2023 they had to close Tipsy Bear temporarily for renovations, and they came up with this idea of holding an event at SO36 to gather funds. And it worked so well they decided to repeat it in 2024. And we had a blast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We had two one-hour shows, full of trans, trans-femme, and non-binary performers. All colours, all body shapes, all genders. It was all just so good! Personally, I adored the performances by Buba Sababa (a drag king who started their performance as a Barbie Doll, with male drag underneath – how do you like that? a drag king in drag-queen drag?), Judy La Divina and The Darvish (the Israeli and Syrian hosts of Yalla Hafla), the lovely voice and powerful performance by Elio Icaza, and the energetic and love-and-rage filled performance by Eddy Entropy, the hostess. It all blew me away. So powerful!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am so grateful for spaces like these, with wonderful people like these. Bravo.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpbKeS1YW6i0iRAw0sF2EbPIppnUU9hl_E6XrBXjA_MXxwPO0JVHCT1lQYjo1RHKieuY3nF9EVDbInzoaIhZZSDmO31XC5kpBbP94HzI4ze8eaEJqm91w2kdv0eAV6KsE5ofvWs1KC-MhBDzjTopO7bbDuT0gFrgbFwLa4ftVLm8gwhBfHpAB6kBpIt0C/s4032/IMG_9695.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpbKeS1YW6i0iRAw0sF2EbPIppnUU9hl_E6XrBXjA_MXxwPO0JVHCT1lQYjo1RHKieuY3nF9EVDbInzoaIhZZSDmO31XC5kpBbP94HzI4ze8eaEJqm91w2kdv0eAV6KsE5ofvWs1KC-MhBDzjTopO7bbDuT0gFrgbFwLa4ftVLm8gwhBfHpAB6kBpIt0C/w400-h300/IMG_9695.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh32SGlOeyj1LuLnUC_tqumyQV_pdt0XhrmFcHprA5ilN7a811TNzPpIqRG7IaywrjxHpVSp1YRT6t4n55tLKjpY99sjLFV0YNPNXw0kTDxqF5qIOpHvOr7NF7SKViOZv9h2f2H0vO4FLDj2U4FXMRQ_-4OWUPKxf5KGEgCL6NkTt6kBXnArMPGDBspRuEz/s4032/IMG_9700.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh32SGlOeyj1LuLnUC_tqumyQV_pdt0XhrmFcHprA5ilN7a811TNzPpIqRG7IaywrjxHpVSp1YRT6t4n55tLKjpY99sjLFV0YNPNXw0kTDxqF5qIOpHvOr7NF7SKViOZv9h2f2H0vO4FLDj2U4FXMRQ_-4OWUPKxf5KGEgCL6NkTt6kBXnArMPGDBspRuEz/w400-h300/IMG_9700.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrDqO1GZ7nGfyOStRJwtPS70zaygF-WbzaiIkPeKFfJU0hm1ST1hkr4x7NjP9WMr3IWVn3FJCM0v-vfUhMLgnrk_f-e82M2LDHpOVUTx1671Kkwloo9ejsMXaQhacNfEU3nClJ7Co1YRqp08sil1p7u-r1_pBdDVhXckQtvWxBxjdKqOHR582rh6hhLqL/s4032/IMG_9707.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdrDqO1GZ7nGfyOStRJwtPS70zaygF-WbzaiIkPeKFfJU0hm1ST1hkr4x7NjP9WMr3IWVn3FJCM0v-vfUhMLgnrk_f-e82M2LDHpOVUTx1671Kkwloo9ejsMXaQhacNfEU3nClJ7Co1YRqp08sil1p7u-r1_pBdDVhXckQtvWxBxjdKqOHR582rh6hhLqL/w400-h300/IMG_9707.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWiaAKHnS7oJgWj_cAy4GFeBs2D58el9qAYHQaMZEXf8DTyRm2sjqmuCJJpK2rGh8oaKhFkW7VbsFJtlis5O8cIU1eTTWqNi_hrp2aP4w5lQciI_-cUPKR97Rea5jv6i4oY_6iucCjYf540FjlYUSBG8whjEMiHf-da713qM4j9lqwdxjRDmuoqB0gOxp/s4032/IMG_9710.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWiaAKHnS7oJgWj_cAy4GFeBs2D58el9qAYHQaMZEXf8DTyRm2sjqmuCJJpK2rGh8oaKhFkW7VbsFJtlis5O8cIU1eTTWqNi_hrp2aP4w5lQciI_-cUPKR97Rea5jv6i4oY_6iucCjYf540FjlYUSBG8whjEMiHf-da713qM4j9lqwdxjRDmuoqB0gOxp/w300-h400/IMG_9710.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJL3aWuLFjJUTCoRjwRTvFlZAlQ5WmVxFl63v0oeLvPsS2nVI0XWs15HGJF4Wo4fWu79yRrEBE-ApPFpZZLnbFfYm1XPTabu0BmfyR-bj9Qwm9BxS5raKZ7ZbPWJGEBkzVbONGTEQMXe428V3SPGGYGtjSyIw0TdtFXGijE2zssyFTQxocdCLVvIbF7_i/s4032/IMG_9712.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDJL3aWuLFjJUTCoRjwRTvFlZAlQ5WmVxFl63v0oeLvPsS2nVI0XWs15HGJF4Wo4fWu79yRrEBE-ApPFpZZLnbFfYm1XPTabu0BmfyR-bj9Qwm9BxS5raKZ7ZbPWJGEBkzVbONGTEQMXe428V3SPGGYGtjSyIw0TdtFXGijE2zssyFTQxocdCLVvIbF7_i/w400-h300/IMG_9712.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-30989228456848646832024-01-06T22:27:00.006+08:002024-02-02T22:35:34.610+08:00Tung Chi, or Winter Solstice and German food vs Prussian sculpture<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>this is a summary of our life in Berlin during Tung Chi 冬至 (December 22nd 2023 to January 5th 2024)</i></p><p><i>December 29th, 2023</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, we're trying to make the most of the Christmas markets, right? Especially since many closed for good on Christmas, so there are fewer left! Fortunately, the Gendarmenmarkt Christmas Market (temporarily at Bebelplatz, because of renovation work being carried out at Gendarmenmarkt) remained open until the 31st, which gave us a chance to try out Kasermandl, a Tirolean restaurant that just happened to open a temporary cottage on the market! We had flammkuchen (Austrian pizza?) with Bergkäse (a kind of smelly cheese), tomato sauce and Tirolean ham; a traditional schnitzel Vienna style; and Kaiserschmarrn, which are shredded pancakes fried in butter and served with powdered sugar and (in this case) hot apple sauce. Yum! Oh, and we also had Gösser beer, an Austrian beer with a history of about 1000 years! Talk about an interesting lunch! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitbS2eEcITD5_-pqSNpVQ9rMxhxlyVcs3gEmI-IdkbaQBZCT5OI0N7IfKrVaPYfmd5bSDpP5yvS7qOdUpEOOlTdV7OBFkTwf6sCb8tL73wdBHTer0ZOGO7SxJAmFd88eyKBesDJAZ1RzgXuFN1F5o_c44z4VsEnXCNoHM1jdxwugqYc_zMR5RnRQxJd9AC/s4032/IMG_9214.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitbS2eEcITD5_-pqSNpVQ9rMxhxlyVcs3gEmI-IdkbaQBZCT5OI0N7IfKrVaPYfmd5bSDpP5yvS7qOdUpEOOlTdV7OBFkTwf6sCb8tL73wdBHTer0ZOGO7SxJAmFd88eyKBesDJAZ1RzgXuFN1F5o_c44z4VsEnXCNoHM1jdxwugqYc_zMR5RnRQxJd9AC/w400-h300/IMG_9214.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyck9ftgVSTS7ePsuZhU9f7pw7XtzQJ34cavFbuXbYUKyir4RmCbkgD90Pq4RUlm5NhhYeI9wunWT0epL632tld_2x62Ucnq4E6azcymLawP8DLjNuBCGK-OW6No5e_cKWEXy3nIsuX488t8yOsJp1cxHpqHoj2p_BmbkryePxPbXntDhgOa5r_gZ4Hvhj/s4032/IMG_9215.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyck9ftgVSTS7ePsuZhU9f7pw7XtzQJ34cavFbuXbYUKyir4RmCbkgD90Pq4RUlm5NhhYeI9wunWT0epL632tld_2x62Ucnq4E6azcymLawP8DLjNuBCGK-OW6No5e_cKWEXy3nIsuX488t8yOsJp1cxHpqHoj2p_BmbkryePxPbXntDhgOa5r_gZ4Hvhj/w400-h300/IMG_9215.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>December 30th, 2023</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Did we go back to the <span style="text-align: justify;">Gendarmenmarkt Weihnachtsmarkt? Yes, we did! We had a concert nearby, so we thought we could have just one final go at market food before the year ended. We had some </span>Feurzangenbowle, which is mulled wine into which a flaming rum-soaked sugarloaf drips; some mushrooms and Schweinshaxe (pork knuckles), and a piece of nougat, after which we were feeling full, and definitely done with this Christmas eating craziness. Also, on a stage they were playing some jazz, which was a nice change.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzIzKJpzCMkBWG6JykaO4Heh9LxEiRJWtQ1Zfy0PKUBOAP_cDVX14o4Ara8dihwg-1F92hhqP5BAXavUkDQywbvPuS3Sd5lMz_vVvF6LOwkq4ED7A7r9YHDLr3dNh7H-Uq_38HtP6ThHRcBVYkI1UwBSx-ylD58_OzJR_vtyGICIFCRimTRaNFGmWWzee/s4032/IMG_9229.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtzIzKJpzCMkBWG6JykaO4Heh9LxEiRJWtQ1Zfy0PKUBOAP_cDVX14o4Ara8dihwg-1F92hhqP5BAXavUkDQywbvPuS3Sd5lMz_vVvF6LOwkq4ED7A7r9YHDLr3dNh7H-Uq_38HtP6ThHRcBVYkI1UwBSx-ylD58_OzJR_vtyGICIFCRimTRaNFGmWWzee/w400-h300/IMG_9229.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvCldFBe9LVgGy0CPxqThhn-SRzRc2czD7anx9Q7YZM3g3x64Qrf_Y1WcKNrPhqr4xQatVdmerI9ujJa4Q98K0eP-lwZRko1KRF8-Zevl9vK0IV5ALoPSLxKrh_j6rAR7yN6y0ZYAO_JUqoaLbtzdJMJOxC95ocBCBaxRGT0qaeKDwRdpKfRGJf4_7p93/s4032/IMG_9231.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvCldFBe9LVgGy0CPxqThhn-SRzRc2czD7anx9Q7YZM3g3x64Qrf_Y1WcKNrPhqr4xQatVdmerI9ujJa4Q98K0eP-lwZRko1KRF8-Zevl9vK0IV5ALoPSLxKrh_j6rAR7yN6y0ZYAO_JUqoaLbtzdJMJOxC95ocBCBaxRGT0qaeKDwRdpKfRGJf4_7p93/w400-h300/IMG_9231.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But after that? It was time for our concert at the Konzerthalle – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Ode to Joy)! To listen to this unique composition at this beautiful Neoclassical building... It's said that Beethoven wanted to premiere the symphony here, but in the end, they convinced him to do it in Vienna. Anyhow, amazing concert, perfect setting, and in these times, it's no sin to try and think of finding joy...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RM4dXf8NwYNGx3zqSp5ozpHMhTssmDzPoOJWTziG98jJEMphPRdkN5yR9BuCEo_bFen7uZMwJTmHCnzfWFCSTp4qUxUJn6wr1C6ctAU6hqzWN_qqAHthp6mRdO0BS7QTxsP1yQIKiadfHAfMV9knTa8H0_zSifll15w84z_RyeYvsN2g3ffvyY2GQ2kA/s4032/IMG_9240.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RM4dXf8NwYNGx3zqSp5ozpHMhTssmDzPoOJWTziG98jJEMphPRdkN5yR9BuCEo_bFen7uZMwJTmHCnzfWFCSTp4qUxUJn6wr1C6ctAU6hqzWN_qqAHthp6mRdO0BS7QTxsP1yQIKiadfHAfMV9knTa8H0_zSifll15w84z_RyeYvsN2g3ffvyY2GQ2kA/w400-h300/IMG_9240.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZtv3bjsr5FebtuPb7TZx9JDlFiff3QxAr5GIbvzCwgowqtePU9TT6YR8cUKKm4bHmhP6-tPA6xRTTE9zoPdhkAmxkm7XlHUy-2g0N0SVkjCQd24gg-PVWo6mvNbV9rD9gJyolnboijzvqmziYAfletMMhnxbdSLkkG0nX6kknIy0lvAH7w45xKNzgCPI/s4032/IMG_9242.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZtv3bjsr5FebtuPb7TZx9JDlFiff3QxAr5GIbvzCwgowqtePU9TT6YR8cUKKm4bHmhP6-tPA6xRTTE9zoPdhkAmxkm7XlHUy-2g0N0SVkjCQd24gg-PVWo6mvNbV9rD9gJyolnboijzvqmziYAfletMMhnxbdSLkkG0nX6kknIy0lvAH7w45xKNzgCPI/w300-h400/IMG_9242.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivcB6LyHEJ4ts7D7p_WMM9b1Fzcpd0vPi6QDdfigoOWReOdhDZ3wHQ4uXtrxXX4hlCZjts-ntb3ZMHkVET3Vq8GI0-Zzce189B1v5xY42tdnu_uJb9Ctu-aURkKMp3yHp8mN5-Hg22NG4psU_fWodnu8ZUpyKFsFb4bl42Is6x___cDTKDIQdJv0v2ryA3/s4032/IMG_9245.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivcB6LyHEJ4ts7D7p_WMM9b1Fzcpd0vPi6QDdfigoOWReOdhDZ3wHQ4uXtrxXX4hlCZjts-ntb3ZMHkVET3Vq8GI0-Zzce189B1v5xY42tdnu_uJb9Ctu-aURkKMp3yHp8mN5-Hg22NG4psU_fWodnu8ZUpyKFsFb4bl42Is6x___cDTKDIQdJv0v2ryA3/w400-h300/IMG_9245.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p><i>December 31st, 2023</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Our goal was to see a sculpture exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. But, surprise! It was closed! I mean, sure, it was the 31st, but it was also a Sunday, so we actually did think it could open. We figured all the other museums were going to be closed too, so after a delicious brunch where I even got a free glass of champagne because they burnt my pancakes, I suggested we walk to the nearby Nikolaiviertel, or Nicholas Quarter, the oldest part of Berlin, founded around the year 1200?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR35SeXYIWWWlTp2-bqT8ZkgGNrq-lPwvxMo_YKu1DQxlHZ3YfQGlPwXYPgbwrSrgYUT1O2piFI0fi7E-kzDs0DRA9hMQkJfrAZMZeQ7it5dJLGfz-XybdVQXP5KSc_lyPKHJn7G5R0KGwkQmsu3S2ykCpultXw1tEZxUxm5O3rqbfCd_HT22eTqQvBP4R/s4032/IMG_9258.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR35SeXYIWWWlTp2-bqT8ZkgGNrq-lPwvxMo_YKu1DQxlHZ3YfQGlPwXYPgbwrSrgYUT1O2piFI0fi7E-kzDs0DRA9hMQkJfrAZMZeQ7it5dJLGfz-XybdVQXP5KSc_lyPKHJn7G5R0KGwkQmsu3S2ykCpultXw1tEZxUxm5O3rqbfCd_HT22eTqQvBP4R/w300-h400/IMG_9258.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And guess what, I thought I had been to this area, but I hadn't! I mean, I had seen part of it, with remains of a medieval wall and a church, but exactly this part we visited this day? How come I had never stepped foot in it! The rows of buildings were charming, so were the church, and the sculpture of Saint George and a magnificent dragon? The skulls on the church, the old breweries, and not far from there some Marx-Engels-inspired sculptures by Werner Stötzer... What a lovely surprise!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLq2v9_Sgqj4OelRChWsdBFRXRZYtIqU9uLoj7ELOOLPvyJTk_WmvrPpQEZukUbniqroPqbQnvAaJWBV1Gx73QjDAAeArJ5hiFUOJf5YwTHAsHN8STWQbCYClx5HBckcRn-8VOSsRIjP2ol7Rkm3X2om6S9YM5saxQNK5-c0HJH79UZYv_IoOzpsXkb2o/s4032/IMG_9260.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigLq2v9_Sgqj4OelRChWsdBFRXRZYtIqU9uLoj7ELOOLPvyJTk_WmvrPpQEZukUbniqroPqbQnvAaJWBV1Gx73QjDAAeArJ5hiFUOJf5YwTHAsHN8STWQbCYClx5HBckcRn-8VOSsRIjP2ol7Rkm3X2om6S9YM5saxQNK5-c0HJH79UZYv_IoOzpsXkb2o/w400-h300/IMG_9260.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5Wn7_pind_ebhj4wDbwj17_9xLOb5bRykyl9EDuTucnMIrPV8QszoJ77mZGQnHxKK2n91B6opgZQpdjxkFTjat6SA0B7fyE2E7KW9AQoPabd7eczKCvDsLznhPVHlh4zEL4FFWQlp2Nw-M4x6BMviJgPgavQaG1L0ihsjYIMb_el-CMz9lBe5QMoq_eJ/s4032/IMG_9262.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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And we got two seats... at the piano! A nice and relaxed way to prepare to welcome 2024 at the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor)!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHw5KMrrY8whMdK5GhgOO9qFFKv1fAvFoB48TChfAnXzPaz0QU0uTAhp_KT8DlyIPnH_9P2TjS-NN0S9ueRAPci77z5Zld-1Sp4bNemPiOUiH1rawJDpcXD7cvDMx4aLoweQ-2p-Klcis7PD41wP-BBinCROTQ-UFl690hS_3KY9kEYsqdrzp66SdqdYzW/s4032/IMG_9283.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHw5KMrrY8whMdK5GhgOO9qFFKv1fAvFoB48TChfAnXzPaz0QU0uTAhp_KT8DlyIPnH_9P2TjS-NN0S9ueRAPci77z5Zld-1Sp4bNemPiOUiH1rawJDpcXD7cvDMx4aLoweQ-2p-Klcis7PD41wP-BBinCROTQ-UFl690hS_3KY9kEYsqdrzp66SdqdYzW/w300-h400/IMG_9283.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, about that party. They closed off the whole avenue between the Column of Victory (Siegessäule) and the Gate. You needed to have bought a ticket (just 10 euros). And pass through security. And that was that! Once inside, we enjoyed a few shows (most of the artists were unknown to us, to be frank, though we did recognize some songs), had some food and drinks, and just took in the festive atmosphere. And when the time came, we all counted down together, with a 10-second countdown projected onto the Gate. And when 0 hit, fireworks came out from one side! That was fun. Not crazy Berlin fun, but fun nevertheless. And, I mean, welcoming the year at such an iconic place? Priceless!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, of course at some point I did think about how appropriate it was to be celebrating while war is still raging in Israel and Palestine. But hey, celebrating keeps me mentally well, and I'm sure there will be no time in my life when there is no horrible conflict brewing somewhere on the planet. So, yes, we cheered and danced and had fun. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKGpSfX3gIXot5iLZmbHIz2kGC0A4Ac3QmzsqQSaOFrTkA3p4w-_EI6Jen6EOTPXnRk2XmTCN3ck9RBJZqxtFKG62tXsh0PckjodFZrIn79pHfV7Y3e5_vO7vp8AkQ1bP_VoNYY0GRF2x1sQlEs7_FTlGJU2Jjja8NhZ9v6aKgx-_GxpRzFyWcaQL_Sdq/s4032/IMG_9297.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKKGpSfX3gIXot5iLZmbHIz2kGC0A4Ac3QmzsqQSaOFrTkA3p4w-_EI6Jen6EOTPXnRk2XmTCN3ck9RBJZqxtFKG62tXsh0PckjodFZrIn79pHfV7Y3e5_vO7vp8AkQ1bP_VoNYY0GRF2x1sQlEs7_FTlGJU2Jjja8NhZ9v6aKgx-_GxpRzFyWcaQL_Sdq/w400-h300/IMG_9297.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnjzFgjJjYzFENf8y5SygNcux9JBJHipTC6DRB1wDO2o-UqRpym2p1WkykayPUQYHl68BEuzU2YR2TL0w4nE-8gcwM9mYI-k5R-xzzmx68uWdr0Ytbvcc2xCTA7cXJXrvj2TtdS2GicWZnXnNTjYgWSfZLLubDIvUYLpiH48g6p4ajUeR6myFL8SvRDIt/s4032/IMG_9310.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmnjzFgjJjYzFENf8y5SygNcux9JBJHipTC6DRB1wDO2o-UqRpym2p1WkykayPUQYHl68BEuzU2YR2TL0w4nE-8gcwM9mYI-k5R-xzzmx68uWdr0Ytbvcc2xCTA7cXJXrvj2TtdS2GicWZnXnNTjYgWSfZLLubDIvUYLpiH48g6p4ajUeR6myFL8SvRDIt/w400-h300/IMG_9310.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxJhZdirVju8ApGZWWQS1x9JKzt8PenENPmwCm8r5n-BWmTGwsFtDvctEcK9qtZRC-KMcf9BNVDwwgSsaei8Xoc8za_KhDa-2XbSPls9nrcjXqEz9oPe4xHqYivmekNeiKOGVeavrBZFEUhvDFbpRGs6H_sogusaps8DqZGk_d8yPao1R6BWf0xejzDwI/s4032/IMG_9318.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxJhZdirVju8ApGZWWQS1x9JKzt8PenENPmwCm8r5n-BWmTGwsFtDvctEcK9qtZRC-KMcf9BNVDwwgSsaei8Xoc8za_KhDa-2XbSPls9nrcjXqEz9oPe4xHqYivmekNeiKOGVeavrBZFEUhvDFbpRGs6H_sogusaps8DqZGk_d8yPao1R6BWf0xejzDwI/w400-h300/IMG_9318.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHGZiMv038Meat6IALXogiCMRiakTjof-f8QXqUXQ9xxdUTVcZRHvN4BbrMqAUScoTEAlt8SHrcGvqrfhnLBP-hsOLm_uyGb7L1QZYE6P45sUcdgr9Ch1xpa3pN_VVkHnFEIfxg0ToiN5n0AXO6sFmP-tnIQc1HBUEX7Nc42LPkt72h-C77i_B6RhQvb8/s4032/IMG_9325.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHGZiMv038Meat6IALXogiCMRiakTjof-f8QXqUXQ9xxdUTVcZRHvN4BbrMqAUScoTEAlt8SHrcGvqrfhnLBP-hsOLm_uyGb7L1QZYE6P45sUcdgr9Ch1xpa3pN_VVkHnFEIfxg0ToiN5n0AXO6sFmP-tnIQc1HBUEX7Nc42LPkt72h-C77i_B6RhQvb8/w400-h300/IMG_9325.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYLcFSged_0tf6HyZ-AGttAirMJUtCyf-4OYhQ0RhgvqIM-Felj6kht5TCBMuLryMHCQlCD8ztxLRVHS9LP90vqsKXufrULmE_BU2liB8rwTwwfb7KN02_yzuXZ7iTtIm-7SBVCArljwSywS5Fm3P_CGtSVv4ESTJvC0Tr_PMyp0VoaxYwYW03v-C5JGt/s4032/IMG_9329.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYLcFSged_0tf6HyZ-AGttAirMJUtCyf-4OYhQ0RhgvqIM-Felj6kht5TCBMuLryMHCQlCD8ztxLRVHS9LP90vqsKXufrULmE_BU2liB8rwTwwfb7KN02_yzuXZ7iTtIm-7SBVCArljwSywS5Fm3P_CGtSVv4ESTJvC0Tr_PMyp0VoaxYwYW03v-C5JGt/w300-h400/IMG_9329.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The walk back home was very curious, because lots of people were setting fireworks on the streets and squares! It got a bit scary, even. But once we got home, we had another drink, then continued welcoming the year with some fun, and went to sleep. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 1st, 2024</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">How does one start a new year? Easy - with no pressure or crazy expectations! Remember we couldn't visit the sculpture hall at the Humboldt Forum last time? Well, we decided this was a nice opportunity to try again, and have one final attempt at getting our hands on flame-grilled salmon sandwiches at the Christmas market! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But, of course, things sometimes don't go according to plan and, on our way there, we stopped by the Friedrichswerder Church (Friedrichswerdersche Kirche). It's a nice (and wholly rebuilt, of course) Neo-Gothic church. Inside? A sculpture exhibition, with pieces not just by very famous German artists, like Schadow and Schinkel, but also by four female artists! So nice to see some women getting a place, and with pretty good sculptures as well! It's ridiculous how history or, more precisely, historians, have pushed aside so many women. Sure, there were not that many female artists, but it's not like there were none, right?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But you know what else was very cool? To read more about Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the guy who actually designed the church we were in, plus buildings that form part of the essential identity of the core of Berlin (like the Neue Wache and the Altes Museum). Plus he painted and designed for stage and theatre (the sky for The Magic Flute is somewhat reproduced in the ceiling of the Museumsinsel U-Bahn station), he sculpted, he designed furniture and medals... He truly created a visual Prussian culture. Nice way to learn more about this, eh?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc39D5V5iYFM7F25lTsq3SVXt6ghdAL9tqRQhxXlbR5fpVv0QpmiFauSPiNCqc1kzgCTd11n1T_4zz3f1PmWQi9xkIB5JvVHd1WxGNBxsK0YqcHglWWAUywEnbFKOWqg5jPEzrqjBTSCFpHjdMLH8pJuvtSwme7ih588JjjTJjEuRIUVCW2210hhZZ6eCW/s4032/IMG_9345.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc39D5V5iYFM7F25lTsq3SVXt6ghdAL9tqRQhxXlbR5fpVv0QpmiFauSPiNCqc1kzgCTd11n1T_4zz3f1PmWQi9xkIB5JvVHd1WxGNBxsK0YqcHglWWAUywEnbFKOWqg5jPEzrqjBTSCFpHjdMLH8pJuvtSwme7ih588JjjTJjEuRIUVCW2210hhZZ6eCW/w300-h400/IMG_9345.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwK3-wgucpiABRJmYjkCV5aLDK2nmvaun7x7bB0eUmBe9crueO6sZZPaRQTwLv5_0pktOkIOXaOqKEgTR_pkQUsyGNfMw9VT4neXZ-GP_ZDSESvrpi4z3vc6KdWT-XJPI2HvwsCEPme0FehiY1P6jSMlTGSVApmK9Bfaj41wMTMCjiGcL66jgenosTggDP/s4032/IMG_9349.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwK3-wgucpiABRJmYjkCV5aLDK2nmvaun7x7bB0eUmBe9crueO6sZZPaRQTwLv5_0pktOkIOXaOqKEgTR_pkQUsyGNfMw9VT4neXZ-GP_ZDSESvrpi4z3vc6KdWT-XJPI2HvwsCEPme0FehiY1P6jSMlTGSVApmK9Bfaj41wMTMCjiGcL66jgenosTggDP/w300-h400/IMG_9349.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEika-jWtaygAvi8aV6Waq9TMGfRsQaZT8rbOTgjs1bJsmqZNY1kzm1Jl7NMqQGRel6deVevD7_MQk-CRkkr5y8hbPtUH5Fm-4eR9ywKi18VDUjbdHTo5Ss9nU4OQ1yfxwYQRvPUvrIfvz5IWT1TKRNYZmUqyYTOPuYbjwX3kN23JU5O429MfQZDEFmo66Nn/s4032/IMG_9353.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEika-jWtaygAvi8aV6Waq9TMGfRsQaZT8rbOTgjs1bJsmqZNY1kzm1Jl7NMqQGRel6deVevD7_MQk-CRkkr5y8hbPtUH5Fm-4eR9ywKi18VDUjbdHTo5Ss9nU4OQ1yfxwYQRvPUvrIfvz5IWT1TKRNYZmUqyYTOPuYbjwX3kN23JU5O429MfQZDEFmo66Nn/w400-h300/IMG_9353.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">From there, though, we still visited the Sculpture Hall at the Humboldt Forum. It's a fascinating hall, since it collects sculptures that decorated the original Baroque palace that used to stand here, and which has been reimagined and partially recreated to give place to the Humboldt Forum. There are very interesting and beautiful statues of Mercury, Hercules, Adonis and welcoming angels for the gates, mascarons, chapiters... There is also a video about how sculptures were recreated for the Forum - though automated carving was used, most of the work was done by hand! It's enthralling to see people chiselling away at stone like we've been doing for centuries... what an art.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4XsgJTIecm01KM4KpliwoTfap62HQsbNH-jlE7Wjasnwi0qOJTBbpVsi7MRyoQDZb89hVhprcz8JGTs5zMB5ItKFlwB14rGbHvg-ZKBcy768cbtEjRmCwuJKLwjQU4GRpqyRBsS-456NDpOpWQH5Nf_5ja6IXBwAE4AUkbqxtEeE7qtYaxoFRgY-3u43f/s4032/IMG_9358.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4XsgJTIecm01KM4KpliwoTfap62HQsbNH-jlE7Wjasnwi0qOJTBbpVsi7MRyoQDZb89hVhprcz8JGTs5zMB5ItKFlwB14rGbHvg-ZKBcy768cbtEjRmCwuJKLwjQU4GRpqyRBsS-456NDpOpWQH5Nf_5ja6IXBwAE4AUkbqxtEeE7qtYaxoFRgY-3u43f/w400-h300/IMG_9358.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpcbIwZtN4zxCQXn3qfhF_1rNPKhSPineMGIJmfOh9zVO0DDwybddENKw2ToWIeMwKQk7_A6fBOH4XQ4F04Hmz_3-KcbHk2txy4SYwdv3qD1R_lWoPlVOIjk5ehMPoYmmm3b1lCnYUiGQqyUaD6oCo-bRX8qhW6TM-Ss0vOYObzeZyEIe2qXE755-StUx/s4032/IMG_9360.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpcbIwZtN4zxCQXn3qfhF_1rNPKhSPineMGIJmfOh9zVO0DDwybddENKw2ToWIeMwKQk7_A6fBOH4XQ4F04Hmz_3-KcbHk2txy4SYwdv3qD1R_lWoPlVOIjk5ehMPoYmmm3b1lCnYUiGQqyUaD6oCo-bRX8qhW6TM-Ss0vOYObzeZyEIe2qXE755-StUx/w400-h300/IMG_9360.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KwlkzoiO6P7YF2QRtAY4Q8qmZMEAPOU5dwr2890xvFdMASmrQtasTi_QWQlHPajTO-eQgvwbjQKAFrw-OPXPhACxIA253pU3XkWlhIlTllo_OVKfO6o0Whzg1BEpOb0zl9BrGU1CZkWpfsj-zVYS-Gsiut-UoFy-dfEQ3NPrXf6smPK3WMnTE4teuzW9/s4032/IMG_9362.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KwlkzoiO6P7YF2QRtAY4Q8qmZMEAPOU5dwr2890xvFdMASmrQtasTi_QWQlHPajTO-eQgvwbjQKAFrw-OPXPhACxIA253pU3XkWlhIlTllo_OVKfO6o0Whzg1BEpOb0zl9BrGU1CZkWpfsj-zVYS-Gsiut-UoFy-dfEQ3NPrXf6smPK3WMnTE4teuzW9/w400-h300/IMG_9362.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzuRSNINHp2S3bta7sJvfsJMw9R3CXbhApFhM6wUsVzO6o-AcPEoOaaJRCdHrqnlpqU4cZdpW6hQuAgVszERfCKN7zIzePYKAVunq97qkgrZZcbTm587Zc0iqi_LorkY7Q7vqkjicSGYOzCNW99iycP11EPr9jBRIojG6aaueGdlxyljiRLJfu4DUSyUN/s4032/IMG_9363.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzuRSNINHp2S3bta7sJvfsJMw9R3CXbhApFhM6wUsVzO6o-AcPEoOaaJRCdHrqnlpqU4cZdpW6hQuAgVszERfCKN7zIzePYKAVunq97qkgrZZcbTm587Zc0iqi_LorkY7Q7vqkjicSGYOzCNW99iycP11EPr9jBRIojG6aaueGdlxyljiRLJfu4DUSyUN/w400-h300/IMG_9363.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, there was something else I wanted to see - an art intervention of the permanent Asian exhibitions, an intervention carried out by Korean artist Kimsooja. The intervention was called (Un)Folding Bottari, and it consisted of a few big Bottari (colourful cloth bundles with four corners tied on top) representing life, death and migration, placed here and there; a couple of turning mandala-like techno-pachinko-kitschy discs playing Middle-eastern- and shamanistic-like recordings at both sides of a Buddha; and a sculpture dialogue between a Bottari and a piece by Lee Ufan! You know I love Lee Ufan, so I was thrilled to see a piece by him there! I guess I'm still very connected emotionally and visually to Asia, eh?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaMX1lfgrEoNyzJk7wQnKambFJx3ixPxM7_rlxIM3bgUk0U_qqtpJjBb4IrEv7zeKNDflfE5QgS98BXC8pIEg2m5NFo-PcIy1HJBlymJu1L1e1Yzw-i8AWKLKs-slW7YOg_ZHp0BPxb8YJJaYwWV2Yh7zARa1D-Rdj8pYv0SWa6_TbNIWmSNxiAy6v2-B/s4032/IMG_9370.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaMX1lfgrEoNyzJk7wQnKambFJx3ixPxM7_rlxIM3bgUk0U_qqtpJjBb4IrEv7zeKNDflfE5QgS98BXC8pIEg2m5NFo-PcIy1HJBlymJu1L1e1Yzw-i8AWKLKs-slW7YOg_ZHp0BPxb8YJJaYwWV2Yh7zARa1D-Rdj8pYv0SWa6_TbNIWmSNxiAy6v2-B/w400-h300/IMG_9370.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFvOJNRn8yDEYf55GxkFrNRhxEgN8pzqOr940hwD5-wPdrsxukkcAlT1zwaTeYrQQA0_z9595BQjbkOTAEIG1aoZGTAmsrhcrJcPds6lEouYuREl3w0Y5ffUs691PcYWdeLaUlyXMJMn8FwFzRko9jNSrKj8r4FlpLbj5dnQK0WjYReIOIbgoouhcSIzC/s4032/IMG_9378.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFvOJNRn8yDEYf55GxkFrNRhxEgN8pzqOr940hwD5-wPdrsxukkcAlT1zwaTeYrQQA0_z9595BQjbkOTAEIG1aoZGTAmsrhcrJcPds6lEouYuREl3w0Y5ffUs691PcYWdeLaUlyXMJMn8FwFzRko9jNSrKj8r4FlpLbj5dnQK0WjYReIOIbgoouhcSIzC/w300-h400/IMG_9378.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdJU6ZPSZkXsNPYYG9LJZIqc2OUxk_-XfQXlmHcki8vAsxki-EGXCv3fXyTolGtX425MxSNiswYOp1RogHGl4IX95LfTVsBedenmhl2xTk_5FUOiV91LD4A1wF_RIirN2ty5f9bxOJhF2Y-vk1iGoXYA1csIDEUoccR_XGryO4KCvzphgUX6OttWnMn0q/s4032/IMG_9387.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdJU6ZPSZkXsNPYYG9LJZIqc2OUxk_-XfQXlmHcki8vAsxki-EGXCv3fXyTolGtX425MxSNiswYOp1RogHGl4IX95LfTVsBedenmhl2xTk_5FUOiV91LD4A1wF_RIirN2ty5f9bxOJhF2Y-vk1iGoXYA1csIDEUoccR_XGryO4KCvzphgUX6OttWnMn0q/w300-h400/IMG_9387.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We rewarded ourselves for our cultural beginning to the year (not that it was any sacrifice or effort, we love this) with some quarkbällchen (curd balls, which are just delicious, so moist and soft inside!) and a flame-grilled sandwich (Flammlachsbrötchen). Yay! Success! A good first day!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUjKFpdGXQcd9W1Zk5hbIEwRqc-p7KZG4Acaro4nhLSHjqYZZNloBaMxjs1c2zv1sHRL3zgiQsaifLE50j2yWS7lwDGSPnen9so32epipc3LByWNtrGC7iyEFe7g-hM10Du2UOJ5ECa3eHp5v5pZG7bTnisqaaNm-Yyvv5A4JF4VL-yBCc6vOrgahTbdK/s4032/IMG_9388.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUjKFpdGXQcd9W1Zk5hbIEwRqc-p7KZG4Acaro4nhLSHjqYZZNloBaMxjs1c2zv1sHRL3zgiQsaifLE50j2yWS7lwDGSPnen9so32epipc3LByWNtrGC7iyEFe7g-hM10Du2UOJ5ECa3eHp5v5pZG7bTnisqaaNm-Yyvv5A4JF4VL-yBCc6vOrgahTbdK/w400-h300/IMG_9388.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQS9xT31Oh-79XpnATGfJ7c_WvYHfbqcCjcKWBOfBxo7ovVxtlfknkKXv4BVwvHe9blxr8X2IQP99ISTzaKW2vmhMNISpLKrrnLYgnj7a-uT67kDfIChrf7uu8nJAes2xmDJcgXdKZ6ok_e4SMc7gCwM3EmW9CCNS8NQQ4-_o_aWUk2wHOyVDewRRY0eV/s4032/IMG_9391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQS9xT31Oh-79XpnATGfJ7c_WvYHfbqcCjcKWBOfBxo7ovVxtlfknkKXv4BVwvHe9blxr8X2IQP99ISTzaKW2vmhMNISpLKrrnLYgnj7a-uT67kDfIChrf7uu8nJAes2xmDJcgXdKZ6ok_e4SMc7gCwM3EmW9CCNS8NQQ4-_o_aWUk2wHOyVDewRRY0eV/w400-h300/IMG_9391.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 3rd, 2024</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The habibi bought us a Menorah! A beautiful one, one that didn't look too traditional, but was still recognizable as a Menorah. Made of wood, and you can swing the arms if you want to change its shape! Gorgeous. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipheNSyEl9q0Waj51cVTiyJhfx0G1wUxiGXOfPmgCDdPoldFjrBpmYyN5oStEh06O5ikt_A7comCupUXySmSDO5CmaBu9G8lS3iFHnrbpm1R_XD-AW0nfcxgf3UDbXzFm8SXHlgnkdigsOXuR6-xAiT-LrSF5dMzGDga-OPihSFbvlmu5yfa942GKiirT8/s4032/IMG_9405.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipheNSyEl9q0Waj51cVTiyJhfx0G1wUxiGXOfPmgCDdPoldFjrBpmYyN5oStEh06O5ikt_A7comCupUXySmSDO5CmaBu9G8lS3iFHnrbpm1R_XD-AW0nfcxgf3UDbXzFm8SXHlgnkdigsOXuR6-xAiT-LrSF5dMzGDga-OPihSFbvlmu5yfa942GKiirT8/w400-h300/IMG_9405.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>January 5th, 2024</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Snow day! At last we changed rainy days for a snowy day! Oh, I love this so much! It's so different when you get snow instead of getting wet! Of course, my walk through Tiergarten was just absolutely beautiful and magical. I love how the water seems so black in contrast with the white around!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDiYkqVcTqQgwh18p5Hd6Z3Sri5ITarVruWnblAfwc9RsvUYYiOFjwEgnbe-s9q_ah2Z9g7JhTptyKUExSvDGdcOhch8bJMT7-nAmSsfbWxemFRNWgwl-XLBgVQN4miJI1DMyeMyg0gByb6aZ-WunuKSsmwP8qMKXzGQ_JePN3UhPZ1ZvvMsI5fEWy3in/s4032/IMG_9411.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDDiYkqVcTqQgwh18p5Hd6Z3Sri5ITarVruWnblAfwc9RsvUYYiOFjwEgnbe-s9q_ah2Z9g7JhTptyKUExSvDGdcOhch8bJMT7-nAmSsfbWxemFRNWgwl-XLBgVQN4miJI1DMyeMyg0gByb6aZ-WunuKSsmwP8qMKXzGQ_JePN3UhPZ1ZvvMsI5fEWy3in/w300-h400/IMG_9411.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxmrhsCpEUP0QirJa_BRBNO1uhcxajhsl8ABIPX3aKBopPM-CEcrsuvd_5pc874DIDhoweVt2uf3LhfRmIGbWSGSCamdjJ6hzIxBNqLq3JCBhaYYCHrIUtEhpYQhkQTxyR7JzZyf-z8QEkfxXRA5v5TufdtW2zffluSI6Kiy6xdfPOVLRPkceEiKPeeMuM/s4032/IMG_9424.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxmrhsCpEUP0QirJa_BRBNO1uhcxajhsl8ABIPX3aKBopPM-CEcrsuvd_5pc874DIDhoweVt2uf3LhfRmIGbWSGSCamdjJ6hzIxBNqLq3JCBhaYYCHrIUtEhpYQhkQTxyR7JzZyf-z8QEkfxXRA5v5TufdtW2zffluSI6Kiy6xdfPOVLRPkceEiKPeeMuM/w400-h300/IMG_9424.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2duB3wXRTmZ5Q8SnwJOkzYGE3DJl7nvHWrv8gwCEn62cO5PxoMdRQ5UnSttPC01eMDdSTBzt6mEWHgnmx7I7OiPDdaeYLTSTNnveEkVfj5OJMfT358bkhxk3v9xWhd6dR0d7b1YssvhXWiqUaAy88JB9ki8a6W4PiFGuYJWuNg0tfFX7CaQvpfFxuDVU1/s4032/IMG_9429.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2duB3wXRTmZ5Q8SnwJOkzYGE3DJl7nvHWrv8gwCEn62cO5PxoMdRQ5UnSttPC01eMDdSTBzt6mEWHgnmx7I7OiPDdaeYLTSTNnveEkVfj5OJMfT358bkhxk3v9xWhd6dR0d7b1YssvhXWiqUaAy88JB9ki8a6W4PiFGuYJWuNg0tfFX7CaQvpfFxuDVU1/w300-h400/IMG_9429.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also, party day! I met a friend at Lab Dance, Lab.oratory's infamous party where one of the floors of Berghain opens. I really needed that – I had viewed some videos about ordinary people in Palestine and Israel talking about (never-ending) conflict, about (non)solutions, and essentially upholding an either-us-or-them philosophy that can only lead to more rivers of blood. Oh, and then the habibi shared some very disturbing reading he did of Hannah Arendt. So, those two things had me in a very complicated mood. Thankfully, he made sure our Shabbat dinner was delicious. But still, I was most definitely in need of dancing and flirting and having fun and forgetting about the darker side of life.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And that's what I did. I left home for the party at 10:30 pm, and came back home at 7:30 am, fully partied out. A good strategy, I think.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcTbYFhkvz7ERVrpWPBLqHq_QSE7ZeY2XQBBvq37zJz2fVPLjKTxUNfJrKajkm6qqfcFvMDGgcgnQvbgiXOj2z86L2zqNc1NN8NwFsy-rhuviQ329hvLOpQuEUf6meYEZXx0XqbN2AvV0E9ACG5P1rK6smXmfH8gB8E3NYW5qNEXgzujo5sWW_2uhVkUj/s4032/IMG_9432%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHcTbYFhkvz7ERVrpWPBLqHq_QSE7ZeY2XQBBvq37zJz2fVPLjKTxUNfJrKajkm6qqfcFvMDGgcgnQvbgiXOj2z86L2zqNc1NN8NwFsy-rhuviQ329hvLOpQuEUf6meYEZXx0XqbN2AvV0E9ACG5P1rK6smXmfH8gB8E3NYW5qNEXgzujo5sWW_2uhVkUj/w400-h300/IMG_9432%202.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-30763752815751921772023-12-31T19:00:00.001+08:002023-12-31T19:00:00.145+08:00Dresden, day 4 and last<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>originally written December <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">26th (warning: contains some nudity)</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a58c1bd-7fff-4a8d-351b-d07defa6a415"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I can't keep my hands off the cookies in the lobby of the hotel! I'm loving them!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhow, today it was time to visit the Albertinum. Finally – finally! – we had some sunlight! Not much, but enough to actually cast shadows! Oh, glorious sunlight, why are you so scarce in this part of Germany! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the way to the Albertinum I took photos of the new synagogue. Interesting building. Big. And with also huge signs warning it was monitored. Modern times…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjOwqbUXWCL2U6JLvf5ORMxruc1JX0gpw3m5u5OqVrciv3MSBlFcfDqbgNFkTesz9uha_-xEXakDqpsHM9HGGh6yOziJY8XzTaAbN7wiwLSV7fs43HaC9qMfMfpBloMVc2qPPrO9GT8SpeGvSv-XQqxiZvccSLz5h1aOXpYItm4XnnvoMSgyRORFgtffg/s4032/IMG_9032.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjjOwqbUXWCL2U6JLvf5ORMxruc1JX0gpw3m5u5OqVrciv3MSBlFcfDqbgNFkTesz9uha_-xEXakDqpsHM9HGGh6yOziJY8XzTaAbN7wiwLSV7fs43HaC9qMfMfpBloMVc2qPPrO9GT8SpeGvSv-XQqxiZvccSLz5h1aOXpYItm4XnnvoMSgyRORFgtffg/w400-h300/IMG_9032.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, we entered the Albertinum, and started with the top floor. What a delight: Caspar David Friedrich, with his atmospheric landscapes, snowy mountains, cemeteries, lakes; Edgar Degas and his dancers; Henri R. de Toulouse-Lautrec and his prostitutes; a forest by Gustav Klimt; Paul Gauguin... Then a whole bunch of </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">German Expressionists, with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Bernhard Kretzschmar with the old synagogue, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, and a great surprise: Carl Lohse, a Saxon artist who painted with such intense colours and lines! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-_WZN5DWVIngQO3sucd8rLiicwYWDpR3Ljy3sC6hJ5jXpTX7tsumgS3jiW9LYdpqgH9c-LC_7D3zW0Y3chALX5uSe2AlJ_QnGBAsn6h7mZ5XyciIvyBzJgS4G3xS98WjD8E2KUi8A6rmprJ-DItDjsFGNEqW4xu1QSvAkQaOuCSkatM7ANKsNLSB0oLPZ/s4032/IMG_9041.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVH9YyP5toc8sJuO8KwaG159lTTwU-m9UJsem5N_05D-BxFXZGVwKiGFhiq1zeWWqILFXyrrCijrx73-FaEdyHr02_hh9oqxFON-twHa6X9PFU-h9TLTnmfCAD8Gu56G5mLTgZwddA7Cgi7ryHjSHm9-44Ys6UY6VIE8Nzu11WiIC5hePRPwAdbwFGjNDO/s4032/IMG_9104.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVH9YyP5toc8sJuO8KwaG159lTTwU-m9UJsem5N_05D-BxFXZGVwKiGFhiq1zeWWqILFXyrrCijrx73-FaEdyHr02_hh9oqxFON-twHa6X9PFU-h9TLTnmfCAD8Gu56G5mLTgZwddA7Cgi7ryHjSHm9-44Ys6UY6VIE8Nzu11WiIC5hePRPwAdbwFGjNDO/w400-h300/IMG_9104.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this, we fast-forwarded to the mid-twentieth century, including a reproduction of part of a constructivist art room from the 1926 Paris International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, and two whole rooms for iconic German artist Gerhard Richter. Such powerful images, such mastery… I was in love with a hazy snowy landscape by him… It looked so much like a photograph!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuMZ_YWkmFSnny9yL5WCZGtMCJbsHvVzheisPfNmfiq6VuHAOx5t4tJszl8OWvEp2Uso3LvZG4bNNnsMOe-46JfX3yfbwZi6S6Ne_tZ1wStubaiCW-Rlp5xV1sJ3WB5000CuEK9elP1SDIoRTe3J724VKSVhQZXoz0RoBCUpkDQI45icjARnuDG7i1S46/s4032/IMG_9108.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuMZ_YWkmFSnny9yL5WCZGtMCJbsHvVzheisPfNmfiq6VuHAOx5t4tJszl8OWvEp2Uso3LvZG4bNNnsMOe-46JfX3yfbwZi6S6Ne_tZ1wStubaiCW-Rlp5xV1sJ3WB5000CuEK9elP1SDIoRTe3J724VKSVhQZXoz0RoBCUpkDQI45icjARnuDG7i1S46/w300-h400/IMG_9108.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnz6K-nHDlFb4Ytdj1LliCsc4OLSczgfZGxE1Dh9dxxw3muHkNrdsjHBKGOiNj18LAgijD7JDXiFjFKnQsmYMRORv964TUJJLjotF-ysM5geEG8MjYF-Mj9NbeKq7Nlfev4YurttNRnfay112HdQ0QM7cGkqWsOub59EeqOzLfE_qGcoDUbF8JmOphHKd/s4032/IMG_9111.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnz6K-nHDlFb4Ytdj1LliCsc4OLSczgfZGxE1Dh9dxxw3muHkNrdsjHBKGOiNj18LAgijD7JDXiFjFKnQsmYMRORv964TUJJLjotF-ysM5geEG8MjYF-Mj9NbeKq7Nlfev4YurttNRnfay112HdQ0QM7cGkqWsOub59EeqOzLfE_qGcoDUbF8JmOphHKd/w300-h400/IMG_9111.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpRhuYRQtZSbwAigzt2OukMGKhKkfQAhUgDCBQRLYI7ddfVEUU1cr14J6qzrfZV7nK4d7Pdy-ad8y3iO9J87Q2qYL9-_-V6uA_FUNfFTNgVFXy4eizAlHG8nkFwSqnTDpqVwCC2fYLqsL7-BVvIQtow6SRyvDZY7yRsQ2jmYh0LP-dVNH-031qo4fVTFx/s4032/IMG_9115.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKpRhuYRQtZSbwAigzt2OukMGKhKkfQAhUgDCBQRLYI7ddfVEUU1cr14J6qzrfZV7nK4d7Pdy-ad8y3iO9J87Q2qYL9-_-V6uA_FUNfFTNgVFXy4eizAlHG8nkFwSqnTDpqVwCC2fYLqsL7-BVvIQtow6SRyvDZY7yRsQ2jmYh0LP-dVNH-031qo4fVTFx/w400-h300/IMG_9115.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5VPd0SzkPJx_tqRCrWgFzNZzg0PfWN-yBSljM78h_qgFsODVDSwWZ0gkLlqLU2O-zft_mZXHhfRqGBhJer3aUU-c4SsGYwP1Ay4LsogJl-8ss26XDAT9PQJtmCwKj8FDh_i1XGQCSsKgB0Mucv7gwIhBtEfpvvXO7p8Ns-XB5g-8GmPP22kFuZSmyQsE/s2943/IMG_9116.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2207" data-original-width="2943" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy5VPd0SzkPJx_tqRCrWgFzNZzg0PfWN-yBSljM78h_qgFsODVDSwWZ0gkLlqLU2O-zft_mZXHhfRqGBhJer3aUU-c4SsGYwP1Ay4LsogJl-8ss26XDAT9PQJtmCwKj8FDh_i1XGQCSsKgB0Mucv7gwIhBtEfpvvXO7p8Ns-XB5g-8GmPP22kFuZSmyQsE/w400-h300/IMG_9116.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z0OMXwoYoGfbM6vL9ieec5WsE56JWLftsAQojvtpawaQJQqQbC0CBaUvbiYM6hybG2rRM6LAQ_YlEXkvpZkpR6F7KbuHlgnwxKP1Yscle22uGXIliMmr6aJROHvc1kdjC94D2rYb_bMsdV0v6cNLM-UOEfBh4nTOFq5Y8mSi0VedyRdDx-3rQSnPqy6Q/s4032/IMG_9126.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z0OMXwoYoGfbM6vL9ieec5WsE56JWLftsAQojvtpawaQJQqQbC0CBaUvbiYM6hybG2rRM6LAQ_YlEXkvpZkpR6F7KbuHlgnwxKP1Yscle22uGXIliMmr6aJROHvc1kdjC94D2rYb_bMsdV0v6cNLM-UOEfBh4nTOFq5Y8mSi0VedyRdDx-3rQSnPqy6Q/w400-h300/IMG_9126.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were pretty satisfied, so we decided it was cafe time. We went downstairs, and I got myself a Dresden Sekt and a piece of sour cherry cake! Perfect.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42vadxi4LF5vKOhqkLOhQrtdqgyposvPIaMyMGD3T8Aj6TmMpaECVPB3gyfnD638zagRppO_xHMYNQJiowijulPgCJgfubuu8zTPvks2-1870Nyjc_k5zrP68MD4O3MHRnaPGS2781a8Hve1wVRwS4JoSmIZ3BX7Y2YtYuLggXRJOJ4TtHtvo0t_3ZQ9p/s4032/IMG_9129.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj42vadxi4LF5vKOhqkLOhQrtdqgyposvPIaMyMGD3T8Aj6TmMpaECVPB3gyfnD638zagRppO_xHMYNQJiowijulPgCJgfubuu8zTPvks2-1870Nyjc_k5zrP68MD4O3MHRnaPGS2781a8Hve1wVRwS4JoSmIZ3BX7Y2YtYuLggXRJOJ4TtHtvo0t_3ZQ9p/w400-h300/IMG_9129.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this, it was time to continue. We still had two floors to cover! The first one was an interesting combination of German nationalism (not National Socialism; I mean the time when they were trying to figure out their own identity and essential culture), a collection of small sculptures they didn't seem to be able to find space for, and an interesting video and sound installation about flowers using AI. Nice.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNn2NmpGeYwXg4UEKCOzRes_Ftx7VqIASrJOuIqEXI0z40WIC4npblbjghYAFFr46Ki7wRHQuUndJw3rxWPiHBhx41SP43BMBEsLHtW_zlXzl9w10b53rDUESEUlDmutRBV9Vx7rnpjry71Gt1ds3o5xnC0GpWCxD8rCpdrvsbqBRj-Vfwlw5Zlooe3i-/s4032/IMG_9132.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNn2NmpGeYwXg4UEKCOzRes_Ftx7VqIASrJOuIqEXI0z40WIC4npblbjghYAFFr46Ki7wRHQuUndJw3rxWPiHBhx41SP43BMBEsLHtW_zlXzl9w10b53rDUESEUlDmutRBV9Vx7rnpjry71Gt1ds3o5xnC0GpWCxD8rCpdrvsbqBRj-Vfwlw5Zlooe3i-/w400-h300/IMG_9132.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7aiCeVmYUmXcgUNJjH2UTACxPN64-mvXmyIoFsZBLmTLvLiwbEL9fWEQu5_2RUaip7fdqJCa4SNIDeRKSsdi1-5GQ6hkF-Dl8MgUSLk_kMWDCqNOxdks_8oN2PFgnbUV8yeFZ-wKo6rlCCOPo9Is4wk9GE3LNPQWRLlHZilwAn874_Hz7pReBuwQtzNB/s4032/IMG_9138.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB7aiCeVmYUmXcgUNJjH2UTACxPN64-mvXmyIoFsZBLmTLvLiwbEL9fWEQu5_2RUaip7fdqJCa4SNIDeRKSsdi1-5GQ6hkF-Dl8MgUSLk_kMWDCqNOxdks_8oN2PFgnbUV8yeFZ-wKo6rlCCOPo9Is4wk9GE3LNPQWRLlHZilwAn874_Hz7pReBuwQtzNB/w300-h400/IMG_9138.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSi4CMXcMQZKAXCNBN4TtxtO1Ux34l6-hSY6Ng_MaGB4O8s212ft9u2RKwkfA6K0HnvBXwIt_HGvSLAwgBt5_P9hbSSo8SBxECJ9apCWVWVJGXv1ODOqeRySPF7mXxH8g9H7Qgej2V5ry04W5-hzcYlO_nk4omj1gRWaFYmG6dIKWwKaD6lLAPW0_W0TGQ/s4032/IMG_9142.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSi4CMXcMQZKAXCNBN4TtxtO1Ux34l6-hSY6Ng_MaGB4O8s212ft9u2RKwkfA6K0HnvBXwIt_HGvSLAwgBt5_P9hbSSo8SBxECJ9apCWVWVJGXv1ODOqeRySPF7mXxH8g9H7Qgej2V5ry04W5-hzcYlO_nk4omj1gRWaFYmG6dIKWwKaD6lLAPW0_W0TGQ/w300-h400/IMG_9142.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, the underground floor. Here we saw the sculpture collection, with lots of Rodins and Rodin plasters. But also a lot of more modern sculpture, like an uncannily realistic naked crouching man with his arms extended forward; layered square and tower sculptures by Tony Cragg; works by Isa Genzken (I can't believe I recognized her work so easily just by looking at it); and a strange and massive knot made with ship ropes, lifesavers and other sea-related items by Birgit Dieker and called “Captor of Souls”. I really enjoyed this space, and the adjacent one had another bunch of statues in no apparent order, but it included a copy of the David by Michelangelo, but holding a Ukrainian flag. Nice detail.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c-A4IdE83B2FqxaTn6peFM-6H6Hwv86BwbsiqrsvZXjkxdBBYfwpXG2mzSjIUWLaim-tENyS7rStvaq4D2NVElK5OJAwpSzSR6gAnZ1-Bmts0hv1XZvKRYHzebUUn18TmAeH8UH7rEhjtc7_tXAWA7sx_xMFZH2n4bY60Q7r4dq8gWFAWQ2-CICeadyU/s4032/IMG_9150.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2c-A4IdE83B2FqxaTn6peFM-6H6Hwv86BwbsiqrsvZXjkxdBBYfwpXG2mzSjIUWLaim-tENyS7rStvaq4D2NVElK5OJAwpSzSR6gAnZ1-Bmts0hv1XZvKRYHzebUUn18TmAeH8UH7rEhjtc7_tXAWA7sx_xMFZH2n4bY60Q7r4dq8gWFAWQ2-CICeadyU/w400-h300/IMG_9150.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly, we entered a room where they were showing photographs taken by a woman in GDR times, with a recording of comments by her about each. It was just normal life in East Berlin, her friends, her visit to Lithuania… And yet it was so intimate and interesting…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9YM__m0o5sd7TNTohS42opu_EpJ1tdgYnTF602kvpd0S_FQk2dHlYlRF7hleSUdwdTovIZ_RN7DNV6rtlvghRF3uwu6gFlyMCp55hyphenhyphenauj6UyTsdXWNbsAasEAc5m3hQg6adgu_N0FGCz5Yx67HG9h5EVzQGW8R8Ab6_7eyPGuF5Te0LBIfkap8UT_G8XF/s4032/IMG_9171.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9YM__m0o5sd7TNTohS42opu_EpJ1tdgYnTF602kvpd0S_FQk2dHlYlRF7hleSUdwdTovIZ_RN7DNV6rtlvghRF3uwu6gFlyMCp55hyphenhyphenauj6UyTsdXWNbsAasEAc5m3hQg6adgu_N0FGCz5Yx67HG9h5EVzQGW8R8Ab6_7eyPGuF5Te0LBIfkap8UT_G8XF/w400-h300/IMG_9171.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before leaving, I even found a magazine that mixed art and linguistics? We'll see once I read it, but the title (Tatars and Slavs) and apparent subject matter sold me.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The one final thing we had to do was cross the Elbe and see one of the iconic views Canaletto painted of Dresden. And the weather was fine! The clouds were dramatic, there was some sunlight… wonderful! We were stunned at how different the city could look and feel with light!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we got to the other side, we realized that, indeed, we were at the correct spot to admire this special city. And also right on time. The second we were done with the photos it started raining! Man…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0YnFJEufvBBmdZw86Hry0eyQrJUJFJTdjrQYvYYa5qIxBLBUri1LMwNwV0_2Cu3TyuLfkyEwjKCR17mDAyAKk1yAit_b_nJt7sb-fnC3p3NzZY3CaNA9ywiDyewL-jW2k1s63DZbhtZwKr8pykKHSwKZ6YQ5F6F95ER2CjO9uNumHZd6ES5qwtDZhE2Z/s4032/IMG_9175.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0YnFJEufvBBmdZw86Hry0eyQrJUJFJTdjrQYvYYa5qIxBLBUri1LMwNwV0_2Cu3TyuLfkyEwjKCR17mDAyAKk1yAit_b_nJt7sb-fnC3p3NzZY3CaNA9ywiDyewL-jW2k1s63DZbhtZwKr8pykKHSwKZ6YQ5F6F95ER2CjO9uNumHZd6ES5qwtDZhE2Z/w400-h300/IMG_9175.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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Eierscheke cake and beer (I had a Meissner, the town of the Porcelain factory!) at the hotel. And then the train trip back home. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRdZr1Npaun0znTttnWBbYVzb_tay58JHe1p6Zq7guarSAQgwXaCPkILS29XPfUraQIaCBDjTIQRltP4sKkf_j1TGKMIe5PV81yRVZfexNDBAoRf2oqL4VCEVXxDo4Bf-Qiq70eNv_Mvqqwf3c7chZAx9oBuVDQOMl8USGuF6GABwz9x8YnmC0QGJa71k/s4032/IMG_9193.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizRdZr1Npaun0znTttnWBbYVzb_tay58JHe1p6Zq7guarSAQgwXaCPkILS29XPfUraQIaCBDjTIQRltP4sKkf_j1TGKMIe5PV81yRVZfexNDBAoRf2oqL4VCEVXxDo4Bf-Qiq70eNv_Mvqqwf3c7chZAx9oBuVDQOMl8USGuF6GABwz9x8YnmC0QGJa71k/w300-h400/IMG_9193.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I loved discovering this other corner of Germany.</span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dresden, Germany51.0504088 13.737262122.740174963821154 -21.418987899999998 79.360642636178852 48.8935121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-25654152030443619392023-12-30T21:07:00.004+08:002023-12-30T21:07:39.375+08:00Dresden, day 3<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>originally written December <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">25th</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0af15130-7fff-754b-9ef4-a074c261af7f"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today was a museum day like no other! After coffee in the morning, we went to the Zwinger to visit the Old Masters Painting Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister), one of the most important places for art you can go to in Dresden. Perhaps even in all of Germany. We started with the antiques section, with so much stunning Greek and Roman sculpture from around the first couple of centuries before and after the common era. Sarcophagi with raucous scenes, Roman emperors, bearded – and very handsome – athletes, mythology (including a scene with Hermaphrodite fighting off a satyr)… Some of these faces and busts are so classical they could have been much more recent sculptures. We even saw some mummies, Palmyrene tomb busts (which reminded us, of course, of the ones we saw in Palmyra, duh), and figurines.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFV6QjcinMffaRPRTcKRq9Rt91SyolXXrwPAxVJoPU10o0fnhG6uk7dXCZgLNfAK0EWI18xc_2PqPDUEWgDzDQEzxTlvQaMvjaXUCE1eTk7pMV61LLLNhulHLQ2WNjLaSTaPNRzIKpsscMoeSDFiCpPOTkKK1E5UsM-UbPxpojW70nzdPbGwbIWAT58cNc/s4032/IMG_8896.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFV6QjcinMffaRPRTcKRq9Rt91SyolXXrwPAxVJoPU10o0fnhG6uk7dXCZgLNfAK0EWI18xc_2PqPDUEWgDzDQEzxTlvQaMvjaXUCE1eTk7pMV61LLLNhulHLQ2WNjLaSTaPNRzIKpsscMoeSDFiCpPOTkKK1E5UsM-UbPxpojW70nzdPbGwbIWAT58cNc/w300-h400/IMG_8896.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From there, we moved to the paintings area: Tizian with a strong and handsome Jesus and his renowned sleeping Venus; Battista Dossi with a nightmarish sleep scene; Raffael’s ultra-famous Madonna with his even more famous cherubs; Rubens with a massive but drunk Hercules; Rembrandt with a distressing scene of child Ganymede being taken away by an eagle; Cranach the Elder and the Younger and their famous Adam and Eve; Liotard’s pastel “Chocolate Girl”; Bellotto’s multiple views of Dresden, including iconic ones from the Elbe River… What an artistic ride! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4ahAToeXe983turgp31roBHxUr-h-0Xl0TSpDzL7XoQ8r4JRjYfYnvpGlS9flioPIr8Wlqzvuy4kN3sCarPvbVlXG0qoVxsq4cUC_FJqf5YlLIbcMdsr_-jC7xQN1nJLpl_oyM-1-_fjZK7UGrcDmSpQ_KfNI8J1AaqShcZrfPjAEHiOv_yglDafPiAJ/s4032/IMG_8948.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4ahAToeXe983turgp31roBHxUr-h-0Xl0TSpDzL7XoQ8r4JRjYfYnvpGlS9flioPIr8Wlqzvuy4kN3sCarPvbVlXG0qoVxsq4cUC_FJqf5YlLIbcMdsr_-jC7xQN1nJLpl_oyM-1-_fjZK7UGrcDmSpQ_KfNI8J1AaqShcZrfPjAEHiOv_yglDafPiAJ/w400-h300/IMG_8948.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a couple of hours, though, we were ready for a break, so we went to the museum's cafe where we got a slice of a cake with tart berries (Stachelbeerkuchen) and a cup of coffee with orange liqueur and whipped cream. Yum!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhNqZZc52f9hs_wKsu2nEaJtzT9mHPPytxQH6GQMB9aiKUHL4RVp0JObl021vfzcaWIc2BdfPaC__JMqBwGAS6Om_Tvvv9KAA_l2BpPeiJcv6CGzZpvjESqkFmD-c_pQH1OxX2BB_BOQWB1Dv9ca6Aw_IZIHYExsJj7htBCpq5Fgdm3BSpcJlT6An-CUb/s4032/IMG_8954.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzhNqZZc52f9hs_wKsu2nEaJtzT9mHPPytxQH6GQMB9aiKUHL4RVp0JObl021vfzcaWIc2BdfPaC__JMqBwGAS6Om_Tvvv9KAA_l2BpPeiJcv6CGzZpvjESqkFmD-c_pQH1OxX2BB_BOQWB1Dv9ca6Aw_IZIHYExsJj7htBCpq5Fgdm3BSpcJlT6An-CUb/s320/IMG_8954.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But that was just one museum out of three we were supposed to visit, all of them in the Zwinger! The next one? The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, a museum full of scientific curiosities, like automata, measuring devices for distance and height, telescopes, devices for calculating the seasons and the passage of stars, constellations add planets… There were clocks, burning mirrors, celestial and terrestrial globes (including a pair, one geocentric and one heliocentric!). … Wow, I loved this! To see the elaborate devices they could construct to measure complicated phenomena and physical features! Plus, they were aesthetically pleasing on top of it all! 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlOuGGrxht4vEIkrm4jONOscuP6WlEd-s3NuPCydhbI1ELhC8AD31xV7aAZr4557AiaMFtLHS-e3URUI4yq0obpUyj18Bk0_MznbqC82K_WginvJy5n0CL3Tnt6vOPsvjsYanvLR7TsCD-i6gpiVt0TLpMTCAxpQrj8_T-Lf7BodaqdvQVuixRUcjptOi/s4032/IMG_8999.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlOuGGrxht4vEIkrm4jONOscuP6WlEd-s3NuPCydhbI1ELhC8AD31xV7aAZr4557AiaMFtLHS-e3URUI4yq0obpUyj18Bk0_MznbqC82K_WginvJy5n0CL3Tnt6vOPsvjsYanvLR7TsCD-i6gpiVt0TLpMTCAxpQrj8_T-Lf7BodaqdvQVuixRUcjptOi/w300-h400/IMG_8999.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, with still some energy left, we went to our final museum stop – the Porcelain Collection (Porzellansammlung). Of course, there were tons of beautiful items from China from various dynasties, as well as a few Japanese ones. But there were also Meissner Porcelain pieces, and this was fascinating, because they went beyond your typical small figures and plates. They had huge statues of animals, religious scenes with many characters and incredible detail, China that was a clear mix in style between Germany and Asia... What an impressive collection.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuGWjheXR7IKU-TaDOPtMBgRMSeTCdPc5A2d5MViKQdXGTyCAolGEl6uE6nODPGyHGk5uMntTFQURofcZbpSdC2c6KiPLyFYRd_KoBl0nRSWGwHeRWed9GIN3zIsVi9BIQeyBrklLORccel7uGq8DV7X-H_oywuOlA47L7NuyKSmBVZBmmeLp33lhTwPF/s4032/IMG_9008.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuGWjheXR7IKU-TaDOPtMBgRMSeTCdPc5A2d5MViKQdXGTyCAolGEl6uE6nODPGyHGk5uMntTFQURofcZbpSdC2c6KiPLyFYRd_KoBl0nRSWGwHeRWed9GIN3zIsVi9BIQeyBrklLORccel7uGq8DV7X-H_oywuOlA47L7NuyKSmBVZBmmeLp33lhTwPF/w300-h400/IMG_9008.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5oWYIXsitLDn6NbGPRjj-9LTRHbmHAQwxmKJmIehnO6AJPV4nsJtWSbKpjlJ6XeOl98WPD7SmIgsiwSq1pCeIvPyfcu8spHsQN5kBcrDoiL7sUAfgi4axqvX1h3M3PjgE8qKMxZa7S_HOHq1RP8GjN0stqjiZum1agy6CF9Zf9Kww1YEHTF9J8RTpixMY/s4032/IMG_9021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5oWYIXsitLDn6NbGPRjj-9LTRHbmHAQwxmKJmIehnO6AJPV4nsJtWSbKpjlJ6XeOl98WPD7SmIgsiwSq1pCeIvPyfcu8spHsQN5kBcrDoiL7sUAfgi4axqvX1h3M3PjgE8qKMxZa7S_HOHq1RP8GjN0stqjiZum1agy6CF9Zf9Kww1YEHTF9J8RTpixMY/w300-h400/IMG_9021.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this, it was time to try and eat something. We crossed the road to Sophienkeller. We didn't have much hope, since we hadn't booked a table. But I said we were two, that we didn't have a reservation, they had a look at their notes… And they found us a table! Yay! A traditional German meal in a traditional cellar! We ordered a couple of beers, the habibi ordered boneless duck, and I a venison goulash with cranberry jam, potato dumplings and Brussels sprouts. Nice! Sure, we never squeal with excitement when it comes to German fare, but it was good!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_ULF-0rColi6Yxy8B6kBTt7YQamQIlAUx6LP2GRuvANir8Pjji6ivygYFrOwXg-9jRsal9VJ5leYuBCKGqqR8hv2kDwXhHs-tlOX-_KHhpYp7hd6ArZw7UcTTxGUmi32_rr3g9KOZJlxMC-yqlQijnk5x15G04qNLzHCkyY5j8A81uuYbczPwytvLSIK/s4032/IMG_9028.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq_ULF-0rColi6Yxy8B6kBTt7YQamQIlAUx6LP2GRuvANir8Pjji6ivygYFrOwXg-9jRsal9VJ5leYuBCKGqqR8hv2kDwXhHs-tlOX-_KHhpYp7hd6ArZw7UcTTxGUmi32_rr3g9KOZJlxMC-yqlQijnk5x15G04qNLzHCkyY5j8A81uuYbczPwytvLSIK/w300-h400/IMG_9028.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After this, we were too full, and it was raining, so we went back to our hotel to rest a bit (the habibi) and to write this (me) in hopes that we'd have stomach for at least a drink later. Tonight was our final night in Dresden!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And once rested (the habibi) and done writing (me), we went for another night walk. I got one final mulled wine (this time with rhum-infused cherries), we walked by the waterfront, then went to Ayer’s Rock for one last drink… And another nice walk back to the hotel.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyn3bLkVnhx588Ql8uPEp6kPFRyP-YoCz18da5h9rlCD3hOkEgtdpbD9FF-9e10V_2aQMZStQyRwA3bhAjzI1LCC3Gt6uIzzDGtrSAf5RMasVc1EY-OIlHVLu_1Qf8BUlbPgZMbUW6jblNN7iV0ryJxSTGU_UlpmcYntj3WDEKByesPwouQ1wBRKSga5NQ/s4032/IMG_9029.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyn3bLkVnhx588Ql8uPEp6kPFRyP-YoCz18da5h9rlCD3hOkEgtdpbD9FF-9e10V_2aQMZStQyRwA3bhAjzI1LCC3Gt6uIzzDGtrSAf5RMasVc1EY-OIlHVLu_1Qf8BUlbPgZMbUW6jblNN7iV0ryJxSTGU_UlpmcYntj3WDEKByesPwouQ1wBRKSga5NQ/w300-h400/IMG_9029.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIehyphenhyphenr7YyMkShGC611sLxFsAFHHuo-vBXIuqDqGlSDFJze8znC2ncnsY_uC-jg8Jk_otD5vs1-Lwu9jRP9NCT7y17F7f7-hXYaleXHDXfPFWHwSTZJdFvtwSU56_VgySDVCvEJ_IokH4jtwy4KLaleZEjcexShvT5PY1VKqrk13_npTPrdoL8JhBHuYYVH/s4032/IMG_9030.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIehyphenhyphenr7YyMkShGC611sLxFsAFHHuo-vBXIuqDqGlSDFJze8znC2ncnsY_uC-jg8Jk_otD5vs1-Lwu9jRP9NCT7y17F7f7-hXYaleXHDXfPFWHwSTZJdFvtwSU56_VgySDVCvEJ_IokH4jtwy4KLaleZEjcexShvT5PY1VKqrk13_npTPrdoL8JhBHuYYVH/w400-h300/IMG_9030.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dresden, Germany51.0504088 13.737262122.740174963821154 -21.418987899999998 79.360642636178852 48.8935121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-9336893935475347182023-12-29T19:00:00.002+08:002024-01-10T00:58:28.651+08:00Dresden, day 2<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>originally written December 24th</i></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today it didn’t rain! We had a cup of coffee in our room, went out, and the skies were partially clear! It feels so good when it’s not raining and there’s some light, right? </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were going to have a tour of the opera house at 1pm, so we had some time to explore and enjoy the views with this fine weather! We headed to the Carolabrücke (Carola Bridge) for views from the other side of the Elbe River. But first, on the walk there, we came across the police station, with impressive mascarons above ornate doors with crystal panels with images of a sun. Loved this. But then, as we progressed, we saw more and more and more!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTzxYEs9c5nE7aycv2IQVir7dgQosItyCVN7Kia87hgchlArKyUVaIU78vRrmpLz-_LV6pKelZojpDrYUTy0c67tTj3aXYvFXIMYl-XGHfJebExWyvcUjVIhmMKG4BUP4Gthh5muFXsy-ioYF4XknuUko_l_I1l0ECAodgn2hZBzBeoqH7v552i2Pz9P0k/s4032/IMG_8717.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we got to the corner of Schießgasse, Rampische Str. and Salzgasse, the views of the buildings, the Frauenkirche, and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (HfBK) with its beautiful glass dome made for such a charming and hard-to-capture sight… And as we approached the river, more stunning views kept coming up.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; 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text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We also saw a memorial to a synagogue destroyed in the 1938 pogrom. Lovely sculpture. And nearby there was a new synagogue in a very modern square style. Glad to see the community got a new building, and that it was near the original site.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_74OCucnkQ7sFOIUVEtK431bpcgY70RXsKL_w1EAVUZFStG1Ds_gGEeK0HROf7EaA3hY_f3aHQHV0Aa93f_PZiQC7C-xim6D_fZXcwslLZjt5xqCqqO7CYohJn0__3F_UGqmpwsVaMCE036H_NbPUSSFp-_qcLS9ThMxBPluJt9rrIPlM3gqjnIEdVWKm/s4032/IMG_8731.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_74OCucnkQ7sFOIUVEtK431bpcgY70RXsKL_w1EAVUZFStG1Ds_gGEeK0HROf7EaA3hY_f3aHQHV0Aa93f_PZiQC7C-xim6D_fZXcwslLZjt5xqCqqO7CYohJn0__3F_UGqmpwsVaMCE036H_NbPUSSFp-_qcLS9ThMxBPluJt9rrIPlM3gqjnIEdVWKm/w300-h400/IMG_8731.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From there, we got on the bridge, crossed to the other side, and enjoyed stunning vistas of the New City (Neustadt), the Old City (Altstadt) with its palaces and churches, and the river. Really, such beauty. And yeah, I know, in a sense, it's all new. But still! What a gorgeous city to destroy… I knew Dresden was beautiful, but this walk from Carolabrücke, to the Augustusbrücke (Augustus Bridge) and back into the old town… So impressive…</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Q-HLqDPnxOC-CYme46OBPluVcQPNVsYhyxNQKWBLJP9dFuJlFJ29C7MvbWPhWMFLe9eeuH7fNI9SBdjCoVqOx1SHd0vShDLFKqIVgV1zeauPmZv-LzclMXHS983Xn539eFOrSs6Bucl77W4rtMrUx_hlwwAH1DhdmhyphenhyphenvWlYYxmxMUQ9uveK7-fNuYANh/s4032/IMG_8734.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4nkZop3ZsX15xvLwqVJUgK9pKzyul3CnRCXIg4biklUcxEcdkkjXzqMao3w2AuTtihIOYdWCfyZCmmwmNB3FCfsFFHgR0TUXk6RgBKlmx3lTVmbDghyphenhyphenh-VGSsdSkFXx8l8R8Drj04fSHGGWRQw7uU7giFBOwxVF2tdecJO-ewyAxt2UlicNq7vG5eQpCh/w400-h300/IMG_8767.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We entered the Palace Square (Schloßplatz), with the Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, the Georgentor, the Fürstenzug, the Ständehaus and just so many layers of architecture and decoration saturating your senses… At the Georgentor (or George’s Gate) there were these impressive Nordic-like atlases. Then, the Fürstenzug was this immense procession of rulers all the way back to the 13th century, made on Meissen porcelain! Really, this area is intense! </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKkUgmxDYNh6yBypd06kJezVjw9nls_h7e5_moGfFtSsV6JOY_R9Zd2sJWRAPOzCGKBkC2sZ724lNvIquQAI8t10Y5W5y-Iu3kwUVsaXh3XWUr7J-fL5oYmBSzikIzroMi7sRHw-7z3HknoHjtnZGTHnSBMEmxFhSnFLyJg8Fiyv1gk9_FNL-KPCFNjcI/s4032/IMG_8769.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaKkUgmxDYNh6yBypd06kJezVjw9nls_h7e5_moGfFtSsV6JOY_R9Zd2sJWRAPOzCGKBkC2sZ724lNvIquQAI8t10Y5W5y-Iu3kwUVsaXh3XWUr7J-fL5oYmBSzikIzroMi7sRHw-7z3HknoHjtnZGTHnSBMEmxFhSnFLyJg8Fiyv1gk9_FNL-KPCFNjcI/w400-h300/IMG_8769.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNvc-RETKCpoxRWCztoSFSDmZiEqrXEl-W-CW1ZVNfDAERSkYsggHKWH0LpHoxKFv_zGPChNegI7-AnJEQhdD4ZFlOqwntJf7utUqoY8v-Oail3BZiQUpBH5Hg6nFGYe4nRAck630mwpay5JhLB26HixPPzYHqae29sSbNiL_g1YgSnk6pJ8Aq9QlCjAL/s4032/IMG_8783.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNvc-RETKCpoxRWCztoSFSDmZiEqrXEl-W-CW1ZVNfDAERSkYsggHKWH0LpHoxKFv_zGPChNegI7-AnJEQhdD4ZFlOqwntJf7utUqoY8v-Oail3BZiQUpBH5Hg6nFGYe4nRAck630mwpay5JhLB26HixPPzYHqae29sSbNiL_g1YgSnk6pJ8Aq9QlCjAL/w400-h300/IMG_8783.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We then went to the Frauenkirche. It looks so different in the daytime! I love the rounded corners, the windows protruding from slanted roofs, the colours, the church… Beautiful. After we grabbed a very forgettable bite before our tour, it was time for it – the Semper Opera.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvlFlGWXNlidwSaEKH9IAEtXNMl9rbsgvQ7Z_LsV98G69PyDwOoIgiRGr_YlXsDBGBnHmQPZ5LZTjVEzLTRfCcgAC80cMXKcjIpiMo8LnTGk_fN0upuJXAasW1mKCUlVQulpoUUZp8wdBbASoiAW-zBhFNGnxdAjRAsMaJfPAsR2bTIivzMhKnRhVyOh1/s4032/IMG_8784.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvlFlGWXNlidwSaEKH9IAEtXNMl9rbsgvQ7Z_LsV98G69PyDwOoIgiRGr_YlXsDBGBnHmQPZ5LZTjVEzLTRfCcgAC80cMXKcjIpiMo8LnTGk_fN0upuJXAasW1mKCUlVQulpoUUZp8wdBbASoiAW-zBhFNGnxdAjRAsMaJfPAsR2bTIivzMhKnRhVyOh1/w400-h300/IMG_8784.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfhyphenhyphenjIS5nX9M-Roh3GuPX2wpy7GOnV90Dy4JL8g-ixK5EOeHsCJpeH6o3C7iWvITWu3kQ5hvBp0KosokamSQ4EP7rk1WemYn5rR-dE59GdthhYym1LG5ZMvgjcUxfOFZzwQIkHQ8W0xPTMgMwOVb7L8ir3xyOIlXO6WO8g0u74DuJ_-9kYMcN50aqJzcP/s4032/IMG_8796.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfhyphenhyphenjIS5nX9M-Roh3GuPX2wpy7GOnV90Dy4JL8g-ixK5EOeHsCJpeH6o3C7iWvITWu3kQ5hvBp0KosokamSQ4EP7rk1WemYn5rR-dE59GdthhYym1LG5ZMvgjcUxfOFZzwQIkHQ8W0xPTMgMwOVb7L8ir3xyOIlXO6WO8g0u74DuJ_-9kYMcN50aqJzcP/w400-h300/IMG_8796.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNufpvdGXoZ3-B8ycEj9pCkq40oS6G1_3wv9BdBG-WIQDoleyO6g9-_Ut5wrwAtJoFsxB8AxtE5XDKQ1qUrU1chNhmUQx-b2Cou-taJURMiQwe6osb-k0J1Pc733QExMPvjSYazpM2WfmKqy1X1xHA3hUwnlqBHEfhfAvFTUfe9pWByaKsnR5YUduSXEMt/s4032/IMG_8797.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNufpvdGXoZ3-B8ycEj9pCkq40oS6G1_3wv9BdBG-WIQDoleyO6g9-_Ut5wrwAtJoFsxB8AxtE5XDKQ1qUrU1chNhmUQx-b2Cou-taJURMiQwe6osb-k0J1Pc733QExMPvjSYazpM2WfmKqy1X1xHA3hUwnlqBHEfhfAvFTUfe9pWByaKsnR5YUduSXEMt/w400-h300/IMG_8797.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a pretty nice visit to the opera building. The structure is Renaissance Revival, and it was a real pleasure to see the combination of mirrors, columns of fake marble, and painted ceilings with bright colours and Greek mythology scenes and images from theatre plays. The main hall was decorated in pink and pastel green colours. I quite liked it! And yes, this was another building that had to be rebuilt in its entirety. Luckily, the communist government had to backtrack its decision to raze the area to erase the bourgeoisie. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurtCy2Rp32qaMz-Ar6T_bx7Gd8emm0wXfQjp9DQIgjWfD0GXkeYObyR_potzx0pvRL-BbOIuSnpQFtzFO9jzgHGTGUrCnBdNp4-YN96w1HA4kK7Z8yGWcrfA0-r9_3ORR8c_HOvZuud1eAEvom1UdJ_ZYJ0IvUFVZPyAylws3PPJv7nw_dWJaoTs7F7xv/s4032/IMG_8807.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjurtCy2Rp32qaMz-Ar6T_bx7Gd8emm0wXfQjp9DQIgjWfD0GXkeYObyR_potzx0pvRL-BbOIuSnpQFtzFO9jzgHGTGUrCnBdNp4-YN96w1HA4kK7Z8yGWcrfA0-r9_3ORR8c_HOvZuud1eAEvom1UdJ_ZYJ0IvUFVZPyAylws3PPJv7nw_dWJaoTs7F7xv/w400-h300/IMG_8807.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R5NoNMYejdUv2z3WkHaCO3uFn4xjZP76Ymd8mC1LAKGwuvs0r26H1vhcAuz_pzZC5JAmeHs1RiVE2AslHGHmRSVHsgVyeSIK42a4DrBOWmuCH7JdaE3Qke-Mn4CukVSLepoOLOwPUqtCr_WK1z_YGabCgVxBvuUWri79KNvFSi_hyphenhyphenYxbXBPLJ9NS0wGw/s4032/IMG_8817.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R5NoNMYejdUv2z3WkHaCO3uFn4xjZP76Ymd8mC1LAKGwuvs0r26H1vhcAuz_pzZC5JAmeHs1RiVE2AslHGHmRSVHsgVyeSIK42a4DrBOWmuCH7JdaE3Qke-Mn4CukVSLepoOLOwPUqtCr_WK1z_YGabCgVxBvuUWri79KNvFSi_hyphenhyphenYxbXBPLJ9NS0wGw/w400-h300/IMG_8817.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yLP4DZOD4Xf36KYlTi3JK-UUglSX7-t1jZspJfTqt2trURQkGERmpnJF4uRGBfXxb7pcWAzKvAD8R4scf1LpjKKMMBIICxw2BjEZfX0jCH8GBT9yHEUwHyppBvXGr_EemY8Oa5NzZjNbdFhzsB9nUpYe54SXcpx9AqVQgUALt15x7pj9IM2Z6dF_p88i/s4032/IMG_8826.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yLP4DZOD4Xf36KYlTi3JK-UUglSX7-t1jZspJfTqt2trURQkGERmpnJF4uRGBfXxb7pcWAzKvAD8R4scf1LpjKKMMBIICxw2BjEZfX0jCH8GBT9yHEUwHyppBvXGr_EemY8Oa5NzZjNbdFhzsB9nUpYe54SXcpx9AqVQgUALt15x7pj9IM2Z6dF_p88i/w400-h300/IMG_8826.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Zwinger Palace was nearby, and we realized we could go up some steps and explore the upper parts! A good section has been rebuilt, but the whole inner courtyard is still under renovation. And yet, it's still gorgeous. All the statues, atlases, decorations, and the surrounding buildings… What a pleasure to walk and see every changing angle. I'm so happy we're coming back tomorrow to visit its museums!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeRk277dGL9F9cc57F0d98PwzkJZUOz6pzaXKTZh8aEgPGBgilgJyTqzXoWKMo02GCm5actzXAcKybG4fsgENR3cWPE5ihZUmfPzkOwx3eTmOKuLbVBzvnrHCtWzY4jDIfamRe_-IE72hbWGRIeyYwvamEu3LIpQAc0CfPoV8kstV9hK2eLyFmIVb67Rk/s4032/IMG_8841.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaeRk277dGL9F9cc57F0d98PwzkJZUOz6pzaXKTZh8aEgPGBgilgJyTqzXoWKMo02GCm5actzXAcKybG4fsgENR3cWPE5ihZUmfPzkOwx3eTmOKuLbVBzvnrHCtWzY4jDIfamRe_-IE72hbWGRIeyYwvamEu3LIpQAc0CfPoV8kstV9hK2eLyFmIVb67Rk/w400-h300/IMG_8841.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIposouELNbLK2aHuP9hJVObR08NdASgnUqHnc9jyWXblGpCto3Ky5XCeuoZffpQKka9nVx0WsR0EQOXtPtSLrcKgFtkNc4XLUhdCR2lRY6__SNkwdT7O36bbmpXC6feD-wMbjG5d4aPuNVeJfM_cvuvgtNXI2MO5bAs0cE8me8zYv3ikkDiL4E2vbNoVe/s4032/IMG_8842.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIposouELNbLK2aHuP9hJVObR08NdASgnUqHnc9jyWXblGpCto3Ky5XCeuoZffpQKka9nVx0WsR0EQOXtPtSLrcKgFtkNc4XLUhdCR2lRY6__SNkwdT7O36bbmpXC6feD-wMbjG5d4aPuNVeJfM_cvuvgtNXI2MO5bAs0cE8me8zYv3ikkDiL4E2vbNoVe/w400-h300/IMG_8842.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97yKI6j8ePf7tvb5iWCAaSYzqX5nbwp-4MqKeqBgKySrUAzMWlrYShTz-BTRSQY3FAf2wyjTaBQ5dYlSm_-0QJTuB489y82_0KkX6uAI5fYb9FOd-YZ1zUtPJ9nNpuLEQw5hbkBySTvsRuzgIQQHEVb4DgkNKUQMxiDVs2FPZlndkRZIZg9HxInGMQxRR/s4032/IMG_8848.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97yKI6j8ePf7tvb5iWCAaSYzqX5nbwp-4MqKeqBgKySrUAzMWlrYShTz-BTRSQY3FAf2wyjTaBQ5dYlSm_-0QJTuB489y82_0KkX6uAI5fYb9FOd-YZ1zUtPJ9nNpuLEQw5hbkBySTvsRuzgIQQHEVb4DgkNKUQMxiDVs2FPZlndkRZIZg9HxInGMQxRR/w300-h400/IMG_8848.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a white mulled wine, a look at the communist mosaic on the Kulturpalast, and some Feirouz music at a Middle Eastern shop where we got some provisions in case we couldn't find an open place for dinner, we came back to the Frauenkirche where we saw people lining up. Of course! The 4pm Christmas concert! Well, since we were already there, and it was 3:15 </span></span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">already</span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">… We decided to stay. After all, a Christmas concert on Christmas in Dresden at the Frauenkirche? Sure!</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once we got in, of course we couldn't find a good seat (everybody who lined up early knew exactly where they were, right?). But we did find a pretty decent corner where we could stand and still have really good views of this impressive church. Now, that's when we realized it wasn't as much a concert as a mass with music. But anyhow, we were there, the music and choir were beautiful… And I got sentimental. We did use to celebrate Christmas at home, you know. And yeah, my mom's been gone for many years. But now that my dad's gone too…I kept getting all these memories of Christmas family gatherings, and the feeling that it was all irrevocably gone… I couldn't help shedding a couple of tears.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoAy2KbX3NQ9NmUyPuM_9qI6cr7rBnldQ24FOblWpZ4WBmXLxO8Dfs8LLTs9xQ4ZoK90BcxZiMfPdVcpbgB5Zu4Z7Mz87gDTnNH5Z6SYsy41AQ0WzUnDL0o8iAwtPCN4Y3un97H7qxja2Xc9jcpjdeJGaSsl_dnBD1N0z86s1hRm3DGQz_XS0gdReRiA1/s4032/IMG_8852.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoAy2KbX3NQ9NmUyPuM_9qI6cr7rBnldQ24FOblWpZ4WBmXLxO8Dfs8LLTs9xQ4ZoK90BcxZiMfPdVcpbgB5Zu4Z7Mz87gDTnNH5Z6SYsy41AQ0WzUnDL0o8iAwtPCN4Y3un97H7qxja2Xc9jcpjdeJGaSsl_dnBD1N0z86s1hRm3DGQz_XS0gdReRiA1/w300-h400/IMG_8852.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1XWxW-CM_16AbFhGURbqhT5SrWBUD_Pukre3OztFgkv5j5GuSqdnmwgwy3-Akg70dahc79XmrJSpYC34i5pNlwo0RY4Iji4PMmN8nF7gOgOuNbP0XmYVV0jhCf2ijY54TJN6bQzMTh8tJq-qShJ8MtGr1U9PIQEl-p-G5oWnJASun4EEcYjNgCVbVn3p/s4032/IMG_8854.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM1XWxW-CM_16AbFhGURbqhT5SrWBUD_Pukre3OztFgkv5j5GuSqdnmwgwy3-Akg70dahc79XmrJSpYC34i5pNlwo0RY4Iji4PMmN8nF7gOgOuNbP0XmYVV0jhCf2ijY54TJN6bQzMTh8tJq-qShJ8MtGr1U9PIQEl-p-G5oWnJASun4EEcYjNgCVbVn3p/w400-h300/IMG_8854.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2JPsF1yy6SHY4ZQJZ6zkvxt3FW7a1xwSK4mz0JIBYpjYraP4yub2PPHSFtZ7PAXN5xXf15UgTk6JpDEGZhYYfERcmh7lDOi-WU9C0e1L5aJAO-Y2YOeyQrYy7TGSn0T6tHq-YeIhMRqO7e14-hc2xIJv5quLDJXwuTH3eURzCIF6ogJ3lVuoMJGJKuwc2/s4032/IMG_8862.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2JPsF1yy6SHY4ZQJZ6zkvxt3FW7a1xwSK4mz0JIBYpjYraP4yub2PPHSFtZ7PAXN5xXf15UgTk6JpDEGZhYYfERcmh7lDOi-WU9C0e1L5aJAO-Y2YOeyQrYy7TGSn0T6tHq-YeIhMRqO7e14-hc2xIJv5quLDJXwuTH3eURzCIF6ogJ3lVuoMJGJKuwc2/w300-h400/IMG_8862.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmnOUKLpF2VvzjwrdW4xzKlTi0u_RlMh6Npq22cXm9siJYNqOSXQAO_gErwaU9ccEMdfCkX94XExzdbiZb-E9COihV4fIu-AvvV8_db6jCggZ6eC4prCUvqm3P0SRwQnKNrJoDWlVpXa4YJM5_OpbA_jICu-PXtZRT7dK1CXm5YDQzKN2bBO1psPzUG_U/s4032/IMG_8869.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTmnOUKLpF2VvzjwrdW4xzKlTi0u_RlMh6Npq22cXm9siJYNqOSXQAO_gErwaU9ccEMdfCkX94XExzdbiZb-E9COihV4fIu-AvvV8_db6jCggZ6eC4prCUvqm3P0SRwQnKNrJoDWlVpXa4YJM5_OpbA_jICu-PXtZRT7dK1CXm5YDQzKN2bBO1psPzUG_U/w400-h300/IMG_8869.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After the concert ended, and we had a good look at the dome, we went onto the square, which was looking really nice. Then I told the habibi I had got sentimental during mass, and why. But then, just by sharing that, I got more sentimental, and then I just plain cried myself out on his shoulder for a bit. Wow. I didn't expect any of this… </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it was dinner time. And I was feeling better after crying. And we had spotted a Chinese restaurant with average reviews, but which required no reservations (most of the better restaurants were fully booked). As usual, I ordered in Mandarin without the waiter batting an eyelid, and we got our very average dishes. Well, at least the tofu with century eggs was fine. The rest? Rather meh, but we also had some Tsingtao beer, and that was fine. It wasn't bad, I think, but it's not the place we'd recommend to anybody.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOvXFtNQ1b_iRLQAhLX7SF6U7mvjjS9mlRh6s1WNHoUB1qg19ltMDCkYkPJOPZcYYOCEWGOFENRp7gncyXJDO0TTbBiXsouIhwRg-USwkAsJStsXPquQlUtAi7GwSGv3hGpdQ-wWoPz2KyLNXhz_6jjLyamVAZoyXXCMCtvKF8batKN0u3CPXU2Um17rv/s4032/IMG_8877.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOvXFtNQ1b_iRLQAhLX7SF6U7mvjjS9mlRh6s1WNHoUB1qg19ltMDCkYkPJOPZcYYOCEWGOFENRp7gncyXJDO0TTbBiXsouIhwRg-USwkAsJStsXPquQlUtAi7GwSGv3hGpdQ-wWoPz2KyLNXhz_6jjLyamVAZoyXXCMCtvKF8batKN0u3CPXU2Um17rv/w400-h300/IMG_8877.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After such a big dinner, though, we had to have a nocturnal walk... Such a stunning city. Honestly. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb4sV5BmG37j9k750vZO0Kr-UPeqdq-wL4ExN1WlcfJeadh1NIdlvJRlPS8p6PK5OzPrm3APeFJc1gWR6c7GvYOXiUEcQvbSTws4s0Jsn3-ijEwt_nNL3ot7ZqjhLa0Rg45gGDhh76_lvtRTA9gX2lpsKXAWBmmXcAClN7KseqsEfmGUHj67XVHXWrhVv/s4032/IMG_8881.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLb4sV5BmG37j9k750vZO0Kr-UPeqdq-wL4ExN1WlcfJeadh1NIdlvJRlPS8p6PK5OzPrm3APeFJc1gWR6c7GvYOXiUEcQvbSTws4s0Jsn3-ijEwt_nNL3ot7ZqjhLa0Rg45gGDhh76_lvtRTA9gX2lpsKXAWBmmXcAClN7KseqsEfmGUHj67XVHXWrhVv/w300-h400/IMG_8881.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZd0SWtYiCPeO078xGV2OJFVMwM2ZzneOnvbvMdijmkAbtgqu1kezOgk7A1uVNfxzyd2ogbZ9hOWFMDRgiiwmnBi9j-rzERsF9syGLEWmLAkK9XEX_yOAE8X3nt1KEJ0vwdVH9WzJiOhNRCFtqxr0RM6v951NrFB5A84tFbq_nPEL7rnw5QG9Rr3mvZv4/s4032/IMG_8886.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZd0SWtYiCPeO078xGV2OJFVMwM2ZzneOnvbvMdijmkAbtgqu1kezOgk7A1uVNfxzyd2ogbZ9hOWFMDRgiiwmnBi9j-rzERsF9syGLEWmLAkK9XEX_yOAE8X3nt1KEJ0vwdVH9WzJiOhNRCFtqxr0RM6v951NrFB5A84tFbq_nPEL7rnw5QG9Rr3mvZv4/w300-h400/IMG_8886.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4ugnZmVC6jecK4qzHLa5cC06l1SCu8R5Qy2Lel-LkHs7gww99GO1mfZrhd9F8dGzxkS32ELx-Hqb8WyZge3L00pQTLXPh6JOUGcU5NGH1e2Ag87vxKNp9iVjudcELT7BWBWvRJRVtgH4gy0FS0Z6inUfqFoZLA_Qu6kqBEAMUI3tDmTqnpNTXGVV3XjX/s4032/IMG_8888.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4ugnZmVC6jecK4qzHLa5cC06l1SCu8R5Qy2Lel-LkHs7gww99GO1mfZrhd9F8dGzxkS32ELx-Hqb8WyZge3L00pQTLXPh6JOUGcU5NGH1e2Ag87vxKNp9iVjudcELT7BWBWvRJRVtgH4gy0FS0Z6inUfqFoZLA_Qu6kqBEAMUI3tDmTqnpNTXGVV3XjX/w400-h300/IMG_8888.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, after the walk, a nap and some play, the habibi felt like having a drink. I checked which bars might open on Christmas, and we definitely decided not to stay at the hotel's bar and risk socializing with the very drunk British guest there, so we went out to the old town. After walking a bit and enjoying the views, we came to one I knew was open even that night – Ayers Rock, an Australian restaurant and bar. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had some local dark beer (Schwarzer Tiger, by Feldschlösschen), some cheese (including the smelly Bergkäse, which I really like), a Munich Mule (with gin), and a slice of Dresdner Eierschecke, another Christmas specialty with three layers made from a normal crust-cake base, cheesecake made from quark, and vanilla custard on top. Yummy! Yay! I think I want to come back here the next day!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk6cnhF6bzUJVkEFoWDSIcZZ2WR0m2n1q9zfGJXYwAD9bKhyphenhyphenJLoZGV5QUsP2X3-DvJUc8kRL1FYx6IZ_eKvkiaKY4SWFEw-usewE0GIkSfMEqBGrCrsXF3VL195ZFIUvK96VLzBCncvr_ZBAAc-1x46Ih0xV144rLwFOBlcoC24JtwxTh4xr2Us2wSCsO/s4032/IMG_8891.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJk6cnhF6bzUJVkEFoWDSIcZZ2WR0m2n1q9zfGJXYwAD9bKhyphenhyphenJLoZGV5QUsP2X3-DvJUc8kRL1FYx6IZ_eKvkiaKY4SWFEw-usewE0GIkSfMEqBGrCrsXF3VL195ZFIUvK96VLzBCncvr_ZBAAc-1x46Ih0xV144rLwFOBlcoC24JtwxTh4xr2Us2wSCsO/w300-h400/IMG_8891.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6C471h2zzRw3wX3YxbwsFV8xIwWM6nSymtOXyjSnp3CanrM_R9TNSuezcYpVDl5aieOd1NR0tLE86snsf8ey8tUnlvXMrJAnDC0hmNjuN68uYuLqF2zPu5ciMq_5_Cfk-Ez6H-UBxOc0BsnbvCIl7VRqOOb-YAzLHwxT0ZenMeMnI9R8QAVrUZQe6h-I/s4032/IMG_8892.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR6C471h2zzRw3wX3YxbwsFV8xIwWM6nSymtOXyjSnp3CanrM_R9TNSuezcYpVDl5aieOd1NR0tLE86snsf8ey8tUnlvXMrJAnDC0hmNjuN68uYuLqF2zPu5ciMq_5_Cfk-Ez6H-UBxOc0BsnbvCIl7VRqOOb-YAzLHwxT0ZenMeMnI9R8QAVrUZQe6h-I/w400-h300/IMG_8892.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the food and drinks, I insisted we walk home. Plus, this is a really nice city, I didn't mind seeing more of it.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dresden, Germany51.0504088 13.737262122.740174963821154 -21.418987899999998 79.360642636178852 48.8935121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-16480698615327946622023-12-28T20:00:00.003+08:002023-12-28T20:00:00.142+08:00Dresden, day 1<p style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">originally written December </span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">23rd</span></i></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6702e05b-7fff-d987-77a8-2da5ea5cffaa"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’re in Dresden! At last! Sure, the weather’s horrible – cold, rainy, gray… But it’s not like we didn’t intuit it could be like that, right?</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhow. Luck was on our side, because we got out room despite arriving almost three hours before check-in time. On the not-so-lucky side, I don’t know what I have, but I’m feeling tired, my body aches, I don’t feel hungry… But I’ll survive. There’s no way I’m not enjoying Dresden!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpVRCiyPUnmp-5yk9esE2ax5IaIVcSUyJEKN6blCdP5HYd50Qgl0hOxKWgFohj1pkiSLOvoOAfXBNcL7YnxSuasiPitnq5FtxpO7BRiGlfb9Ur7-0j-7Zv0k2a0AV73OrQXenhiUXqSjSYdWRsZLfETQFhKFaQ8XBTyfxSq3TwHq52r_oaeaN7rxtOh14/s4032/IMG_8667.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpVRCiyPUnmp-5yk9esE2ax5IaIVcSUyJEKN6blCdP5HYd50Qgl0hOxKWgFohj1pkiSLOvoOAfXBNcL7YnxSuasiPitnq5FtxpO7BRiGlfb9Ur7-0j-7Zv0k2a0AV73OrQXenhiUXqSjSYdWRsZLfETQFhKFaQ8XBTyfxSq3TwHq52r_oaeaN7rxtOh14/w400-h300/IMG_8667.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, after we left our stuff, we headed to the old part of the city for some coffee and a Saxon specialty – Sächsische Quarkkäulchen, made from potato and curd, fried and rolled in sugar and cinnamon with apple sauce and whipped cream. Yummy, and perfect to wait for our tickets’ entry window for the Green Vault (das Grüne Gewölbe), our highlight for the day.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-tMFmQxTCzhA7__qI5tGKEx9HBisb_prSPq6XfQDejnxy2UUB9cE2-nsuxs_PkernwnEcC1yISKrmE7GLP9MRGWN7O3eemz4oP79uz6qSKO5b4z8C2u0QAy9CHrGjq5-K7jfaYDAlirxpa6CR1e3P-Suo-O3SsSoaruWquWJ5Cz08NRY4mlKClTOmLA6/s4032/IMG_8671.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu-tMFmQxTCzhA7__qI5tGKEx9HBisb_prSPq6XfQDejnxy2UUB9cE2-nsuxs_PkernwnEcC1yISKrmE7GLP9MRGWN7O3eemz4oP79uz6qSKO5b4z8C2u0QAy9CHrGjq5-K7jfaYDAlirxpa6CR1e3P-Suo-O3SsSoaruWquWJ5Cz08NRY4mlKClTOmLA6/w400-h300/IMG_8671.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Funnily, though, we got sidetracked by the Zwinger, a stunning Baroque palace. We were not headed there, but when we saw it, we just assumed that had to be the right place for the Vault. We walked all around, admiring the complex, looking at all the other cool museums to visit there. But then we came across a map, and the Green Vault was definitely not on it! We checked again, and realized this was the wrong building! But still, we were grateful for the extra views.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjFJV757t2W6thIRKOBfHLy9xA4l_1DrQUSHsVIiX395Z7qSvkHfUpGUPytWRndwZiPyVaGad7cgNYumhzi553n7AAQRBELrDFfD1-tklpxPHj63h1tQEiQPpYX8k-LwAtqVWo9v7nYRJAxJRlFt2DQxfUE_Yw6dSmWCYvmFMtl5IcgCWC-PXppx-KZ0D/s4032/IMG_8675.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjFJV757t2W6thIRKOBfHLy9xA4l_1DrQUSHsVIiX395Z7qSvkHfUpGUPytWRndwZiPyVaGad7cgNYumhzi553n7AAQRBELrDFfD1-tklpxPHj63h1tQEiQPpYX8k-LwAtqVWo9v7nYRJAxJRlFt2DQxfUE_Yw6dSmWCYvmFMtl5IcgCWC-PXppx-KZ0D/w400-h300/IMG_8675.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nqXXehhid0rrx4tSk6THlbUaVjnVTUpc-LPXpsw3tDiTgiTxzUaV3lLM3YeW2-0fiqmEqzeoxsqvqzpYxXNwK988zcnO91GFzY7IfrJ30lmxAD0aKBVaXbEWjykzJ8_UTNzivDAnujScRhUlpxBp_qu1GgkPgdC3s0WMl9Kcx0rl7JRdYCZfTM0URgm7/s4032/IMG_8676.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9nqXXehhid0rrx4tSk6THlbUaVjnVTUpc-LPXpsw3tDiTgiTxzUaV3lLM3YeW2-0fiqmEqzeoxsqvqzpYxXNwK988zcnO91GFzY7IfrJ30lmxAD0aKBVaXbEWjykzJ8_UTNzivDAnujScRhUlpxBp_qu1GgkPgdC3s0WMl9Kcx0rl7JRdYCZfTM0URgm7/w400-h300/IMG_8676.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAs7Z8BcuQBmt0yF6GnG6ES3dqbdAs7i3s8Y4nqjDaMhNnX3ePUJbF8y1_QE_KHzW2X0tukLTeP6_0LjYVKvY6jFpj07vnUK_MyfCTjRdI7ELQi7c8B9K8ZXeFNcL1DvD5s1aaXb-2Fyka-eC4ecALKWNOHqt4T8hMkBwkA7gulj25xZQ2kANl7J-FAKYF/s4032/IMG_8678.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAs7Z8BcuQBmt0yF6GnG6ES3dqbdAs7i3s8Y4nqjDaMhNnX3ePUJbF8y1_QE_KHzW2X0tukLTeP6_0LjYVKvY6jFpj07vnUK_MyfCTjRdI7ELQi7c8B9K8ZXeFNcL1DvD5s1aaXb-2Fyka-eC4ecALKWNOHqt4T8hMkBwkA7gulj25xZQ2kANl7J-FAKYF/w300-h400/IMG_8678.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We then walked to the Green Vault, showed our tickets, were warned multiple times against taking photographs, and proceeded to explore hall after hall with treasures that were definitely the kind of thing you’d love to take photos of! There was an ivory room, a room with objects made of mother of pearl, one with items fashioned from ostrich eggs… We saw marble, wood, copper, jewels, coral… It was absolutely stunning. Oh, and the first room had works of art made of amber; I never realized amber could be used to make such elaborate, intricate objects! One of the ivory and wood sculptures had some motifs that for sure took inspiration from China, like a bat’s head! And in the jewelry room, there was a sculpture of a “Moor” holding a tray of emerald right stones, but in fact the tattoos and attire reveal the model didn’t come from Africa, but from a Florida indigenous group. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">Once we finished, we also had a look at an inner courtyard. It's hard to imagine this whole building was destroyed during WWII, with just the basic structure remaining... </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That was one really impressive tour. We must have spent about an hour and a half there.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfOpOtbrXT99BRwVcFjcfhr9I-y3A8H7Mjs0W3vASOH1Db2-nMu3nkZ1QIBAKYoRbIBV3LK4sVvGeVRCyHc0XSWE8gK_lpYS_psP760Rkmwxv1_NFs4Eg9f82lHu-1XH2h1HP_FobiH6yK68fzng7vASvHk7vVMaTKfCH_RZwyb0UopZuwglY2jZV9FyWZ/s4032/IMG_8679.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfOpOtbrXT99BRwVcFjcfhr9I-y3A8H7Mjs0W3vASOH1Db2-nMu3nkZ1QIBAKYoRbIBV3LK4sVvGeVRCyHc0XSWE8gK_lpYS_psP760Rkmwxv1_NFs4Eg9f82lHu-1XH2h1HP_FobiH6yK68fzng7vASvHk7vVMaTKfCH_RZwyb0UopZuwglY2jZV9FyWZ/w300-h400/IMG_8679.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_C6El5mrXve524SaR1ny7SQTLtZ7Ijup0JlO0I9EkMQ87meba2k3O3AsZyiBxk1sOaOWS-tmpZQRX_pDKBuCg2EJ5c9uQvGEgJfRvlW_9uj5IhaBNayyP0UeMtrUnyCGvYoRoxMw5h2uiN4uqzKqy0G35DeB5GSFU14gniQKrjxahkmBSuWVSo30CA95/s4032/IMG_8680.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju_C6El5mrXve524SaR1ny7SQTLtZ7Ijup0JlO0I9EkMQ87meba2k3O3AsZyiBxk1sOaOWS-tmpZQRX_pDKBuCg2EJ5c9uQvGEgJfRvlW_9uj5IhaBNayyP0UeMtrUnyCGvYoRoxMw5h2uiN4uqzKqy0G35DeB5GSFU14gniQKrjxahkmBSuWVSo30CA95/w400-h300/IMG_8680.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But you know what else was on our list? The main Christmas market (Dresdner Striezelmarkt), on its… 589th edition! Now that’s a Christmas market with a long tradition! Now, most of the time we were there, it was raining, so that was really annoying. But we were there for a few things (food and drink), and we got those! Oh, except that on our way to the market, I spotted a Saxon ice cream parlour, and of course, I had to take a look at their flavours… There was a quark and lemon ice cream! So, I got a scoop. Yeah, I have absolutely no qualms about having ice cream in shitty wintry weather. And guess what, while holding my cup, a snowflake fell on my glove… and it was exactly the shape of a state of David! So cute, so so cute!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ok, back to the market. After the ice cream, we went straight for the mulled wine. And after that? Grünkohl (a kale-based dish) with… horse sausage and mustard! You know what? It tasted very meaty (ha, surprise?), but it kept a red colour very unlike beef. Tasty, though!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, we had one final Dresden delicacy – Pflaumentoffelbratwurst! Or devil’s plum sausage, which is sausage with bits of plum inside it! Delicious! And there was so much more to try (we never saw flame-grilled salmon, though, weird), but we were full, and I was at my limit. We had to go back to the hotel so I could take a nap.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8gxUXcOC8w0SG9ZBs9E9321WhxBs5L4KgQiconm5Cx0vVgCGtBZjRS1E2G2uG8xEa7vTlVRTghTD9YQ8JiCAeY90rZvpbv5EGt_IbogsU6LQJqd0ubGQlzpYa5HBK2v8fyBdg89oUdWI5hxWqIQ0tVorsmpKQdyxhFZx0WbkT9Nt189uFDX6c6bDTdfA/s4032/IMG_8685.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG8gxUXcOC8w0SG9ZBs9E9321WhxBs5L4KgQiconm5Cx0vVgCGtBZjRS1E2G2uG8xEa7vTlVRTghTD9YQ8JiCAeY90rZvpbv5EGt_IbogsU6LQJqd0ubGQlzpYa5HBK2v8fyBdg89oUdWI5hxWqIQ0tVorsmpKQdyxhFZx0WbkT9Nt189uFDX6c6bDTdfA/w300-h400/IMG_8685.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the nap, I was feeling much better. But definitely not in the mood to go partying. Which is a shame because there was a nightclub club where, if I wore my kilt, I could get drinks for 1€! But I guess I had to let my body recover… So, we went to a brewery called Watzke, where I had a truffle sausage with parsley risotto and a beer by Watzke. Not bad. Not super delicious, but very typical German fare, right?</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Afterwards, we had a short night walk… We walked all the way to the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche). On the way, we came across a big group of Stolpersteine. Everybody was murdered, most in Auschwitz. Fuck antisemitism. But back to the church. What an impressive place. Really beautiful. But also, you can tell which stones are original. Essentially, like most of the city, it was pulverized in 1945. It's crazy. The whole city has been rebuilt… It does send you down a rabbit hole about what's original and what's not, and whether that impacts if something's worth seeing or not…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzNkBHObNZE3r4J5eVF9YlUpCsv-qsgFCQn8ekOZr2s_hTQd4vGbpkW9t3x5x-bWxq9q6qc8i9q9ZCOj-gyORnQ4DHODVnTpEb-vdkpwxtCaRJoInGKYjKXHoBBQbrmCAsY4JrTvhj2Q1NR4H21cztrPv8WOzdruUuzLqEyPHa-RynMZbD8509Mi-sunk/s4032/IMG_8706.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzNkBHObNZE3r4J5eVF9YlUpCsv-qsgFCQn8ekOZr2s_hTQd4vGbpkW9t3x5x-bWxq9q6qc8i9q9ZCOj-gyORnQ4DHODVnTpEb-vdkpwxtCaRJoInGKYjKXHoBBQbrmCAsY4JrTvhj2Q1NR4H21cztrPv8WOzdruUuzLqEyPHa-RynMZbD8509Mi-sunk/w400-h300/IMG_8706.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrwgxQbyntOPeHrUQeKCrc0WShIBkYsTzZeAq2m5R843mD_nKWSciwrUbeV-BdPJ95ovGIlJoraRsSBVwfqzRp98G7RY_QA_e-hJBBy_Y4Nd7tjBmTarX15UJbpFBv873zO_g_q0-W9ECsCh40ayAQAxHdDDyevpm2eYmvSd_3U5V5bVv2w8aowO3rfUA/s4032/IMG_8709.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrwgxQbyntOPeHrUQeKCrc0WShIBkYsTzZeAq2m5R843mD_nKWSciwrUbeV-BdPJ95ovGIlJoraRsSBVwfqzRp98G7RY_QA_e-hJBBy_Y4Nd7tjBmTarX15UJbpFBv873zO_g_q0-W9ECsCh40ayAQAxHdDDyevpm2eYmvSd_3U5V5bVv2w8aowO3rfUA/w400-h300/IMG_8709.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjbbY36miEg_hyphenhyphenXVxWOgKJuBD8cogNLPT7zjz_fg7Yac3tnlZ0Flq95ZecVY1yzHIW4uS6Qv4JuoJpumZYymuh6iRx7lPyiAy8BtoGn2Rd4Uy__L5tgT1dCj0nf_QG5dMjbTwcM7sMV1Eolqi7HU_WLmPCP6vXUTZWrB6YWbqrbsNRs-Gb4zoqnT13Lj2/s4032/IMG_8713.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQjbbY36miEg_hyphenhyphenXVxWOgKJuBD8cogNLPT7zjz_fg7Yac3tnlZ0Flq95ZecVY1yzHIW4uS6Qv4JuoJpumZYymuh6iRx7lPyiAy8BtoGn2Rd4Uy__L5tgT1dCj0nf_QG5dMjbTwcM7sMV1Eolqi7HU_WLmPCP6vXUTZWrB6YWbqrbsNRs-Gb4zoqnT13Lj2/w400-h300/IMG_8713.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Dresden, Germany51.0504088 13.737262122.740174963821154 -21.418987899999998 79.360642636178852 48.8935121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-30952676230555731352023-12-22T19:00:00.006+08:002024-01-23T17:00:49.742+08:00Tai Suet, or Major Snow and the Hanukkah-Christmas straddle<p><i style="text-align: justify;">this is a summary of our life in Berlin during Tai Suet 大雪 (December 7th to December 21st)</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>December 7th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was a good day. I had wonderful walks around Tiergarten, where the frozen water had created fascinating collages of leaves which, having fallen at different times of the week from different kinds of trees, created a layered and colourful pattern...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Even though it was a super long workday (I got home at 11pm), and though it was probably not very kosher to light the first Hanukkah candle this late, the habibi had been waiting for me, gin and tonic in hand (mixed with the gin we brought from Israel!), dinner ready, Hanukkah menorah already set by the window. We had a few sips, and then proceeded to light the first candle! So cool. In times like these, after so much darkness, so much pressure just for being a Jew, it felt good to do this, and to put the lights by the window. Also, I chose a blue and a yellow candle, in honour of Ukraine, a place we mustn't forget about.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But also, we didn't let negativity dominate - this is most definitely not Nazi Germany, and in general things are way way better than in many previous times and epochs, despite the current - and temporary, for sure - situation. And so, we celebrated, both as a radical act of visibility, a happy moment of affirmation, and a symbolic bringing of light into these days. Chag sameach! And let it keep snowing!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3kOfeMinatUkB2d4IGS04sFtMVcgV7QyR-KuWFNdGWJly5UxrFXFlCu-BPuONEoPT_-gnC-xukreP77FT_zmAnRIvoixqvPyFnPl6YGxL62CqrDZ0p3PS-Sw6kAArrepseyaKVC6Xq8rQGSsNZ8VN6ohg9iszcuVpX3yMkt6_MflrYlPLlASgVKcT3w4/s4032/IMG_8269.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3kOfeMinatUkB2d4IGS04sFtMVcgV7QyR-KuWFNdGWJly5UxrFXFlCu-BPuONEoPT_-gnC-xukreP77FT_zmAnRIvoixqvPyFnPl6YGxL62CqrDZ0p3PS-Sw6kAArrepseyaKVC6Xq8rQGSsNZ8VN6ohg9iszcuVpX3yMkt6_MflrYlPLlASgVKcT3w4/w400-h300/IMG_8269.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBQkY2DI6iNhg8GFo6czkpkRKHQiY78xShPwhf9nrDKzdmYbFhUQ3lquzosl7xHDNDJD1-KXdunI3aBy2a4j314he6rNssPuRjVSGZspWln4TnxAYsIOwalRDH67hayOWPnlm9LUzA1SfcB9hFV1R-xBTdOOZJLdikeYQEXCNA7Zr6Tj0i4nTql0xgJ0O/s4032/IMG_8270.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipBQkY2DI6iNhg8GFo6czkpkRKHQiY78xShPwhf9nrDKzdmYbFhUQ3lquzosl7xHDNDJD1-KXdunI3aBy2a4j314he6rNssPuRjVSGZspWln4TnxAYsIOwalRDH67hayOWPnlm9LUzA1SfcB9hFV1R-xBTdOOZJLdikeYQEXCNA7Zr6Tj0i4nTql0xgJ0O/w400-h300/IMG_8270.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uuRVK4MMakrA3he-zldMPOmKUqLo07QctBm07SP4X2STOTTdBL8TPREhwHrbd4uF3GMyELeXzhOFZkn0PGA4jCrXqPho6K0pVuWvJdwAvii09yNX0ycF9FL4amdan0-ah7-3A5U4Ch2-ndDzJUvsTBGHdepi4BO94mwWbjaQvskuNRXiFhcGk_9RhRXM/s4032/IMG_8303.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uuRVK4MMakrA3he-zldMPOmKUqLo07QctBm07SP4X2STOTTdBL8TPREhwHrbd4uF3GMyELeXzhOFZkn0PGA4jCrXqPho6K0pVuWvJdwAvii09yNX0ycF9FL4amdan0-ah7-3A5U4Ch2-ndDzJUvsTBGHdepi4BO94mwWbjaQvskuNRXiFhcGk_9RhRXM/w400-h300/IMG_8303.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>December 9th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The weekend was crazy! It was a heavy combination of culture, partying, and Chanukkah! Saturday we took a tour of what used to be the offices of the former German Democratic Republic. Such a complex history, are you ready? The building started as the Königliches Schloss (The Royal Castle), a residence for the Hohenzollern clan in 1442. From 1701, it became the official royal Prussian winter residence. Of course, its architecture went through all the styles, ending in Baroque, and with the construction of five grandiose portals. On August 1st 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II officially declared war to Russia from Portal IV.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">On November 9th, 1918 it would be Karl Liebknecht proclaiming the Socialist German Republic, from the roof of a truck below the balcony of Portal IV. On September 7th, 1950, after WWII, the communists – in an impulse to rid Germany of imperialistic symbols – started demolishing the palace. Though aiming to preserve Portal IV, it seems they miscalculated the explosives and ended up destroying most of it (luckily, they did preserve Portal V).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">In 1964, where the palace stood, the German Democratic Republic's first purpose-built political building was finished – the Staatsratsgebäude (State Council Building), to house the completely Soviet-aligned German government, an example of Ost Moderne (East Modernism) which incorporated Portal IV (made from pieces of Portal IV and V), renamed as the Liebknecht Portal.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sorry for the very long introduction, but otherwise you don't get the symbolism and uniqueness of this place, right?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Inside, you're treated to a whole GDR experience. There's a glass mosaic three floors high with idyllic scenes of workers, progress, technology... There's the face of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, as well as some soldiers destroying an imperial eagle. The different rooms are all decorated in a Modernist style, and the different lamps, the patterns of the ceiling, the wooden panels on the walls, they are all different in each room. There's design on porcelain, on metal... So much detail! There's even a hallway with panels made from leather and golden doves, a gift from Mongolia. In the main room, there's a GDR state emblem made of countless mosaic stones. It's hidden behind a curtain, but they opened it for us.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since 2006, the building has been the European School of Management and Technology. What a fascinating trip through history!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMcm1OjdzpHsIaunpVVzpys72_jipqK1d9-5HqtArsdD7YYyu-aKS6TRdRwbksPjfREW9YxOQv-pL-RKx8ZWQmWBy4Q6Auqpo3Ej3f58J8LgR0HnBr9qt-fdcXOO01xFWZDvRchc5uFC-_pJnWEMSQLdc01V8DP4GntJUaM8aYZEv5SmzJUszdtlca7Xu/s4032/IMG_8322.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitMcm1OjdzpHsIaunpVVzpys72_jipqK1d9-5HqtArsdD7YYyu-aKS6TRdRwbksPjfREW9YxOQv-pL-RKx8ZWQmWBy4Q6Auqpo3Ej3f58J8LgR0HnBr9qt-fdcXOO01xFWZDvRchc5uFC-_pJnWEMSQLdc01V8DP4GntJUaM8aYZEv5SmzJUszdtlca7Xu/w400-h300/IMG_8322.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1I-60XkE3eViZsAtBG9LYWSUfYeta1epQiNZvv0GQ1vVv2xkbPoKkpFtWjGGA6mNBCOgIAz1i0oxV5WPPSM94zkOs2Picpi8U-70gxKpv64v350zFTF8oEkRxAZS_0vGbx1Vvkml1N2Y-jGKGfVQUB7pVgeKwzWGU2iFgaaFu4ZRJACAN2jeg3eGlUnB/s4032/IMG_8330.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ1I-60XkE3eViZsAtBG9LYWSUfYeta1epQiNZvv0GQ1vVv2xkbPoKkpFtWjGGA6mNBCOgIAz1i0oxV5WPPSM94zkOs2Picpi8U-70gxKpv64v350zFTF8oEkRxAZS_0vGbx1Vvkml1N2Y-jGKGfVQUB7pVgeKwzWGU2iFgaaFu4ZRJACAN2jeg3eGlUnB/w300-h400/IMG_8330.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkk4kg2dVffZME5K454qzCVU5bho_4l61CXEbeaTzt3MPsnFw-xYIviRQOEPdkB-5FDEnsnLKYRONg3JyokQoEDuKdAO5KQZJpsS8g829x6jyt5XrDfROW0LAQW9PrKojziqRhDPx6t1o8qwSSOW0cJ_EBDeLcxEaawViCyXYMfkqp7YxLaq3qlmqmXn0/s4032/IMG_8348.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkk4kg2dVffZME5K454qzCVU5bho_4l61CXEbeaTzt3MPsnFw-xYIviRQOEPdkB-5FDEnsnLKYRONg3JyokQoEDuKdAO5KQZJpsS8g829x6jyt5XrDfROW0LAQW9PrKojziqRhDPx6t1o8qwSSOW0cJ_EBDeLcxEaawViCyXYMfkqp7YxLaq3qlmqmXn0/w300-h400/IMG_8348.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcVV-HpiCmeqH_HU7NV4Wk49cvh03ouR1EDSi0SBTdZkm0MrfnWw-iv29NZ3U3e3SlCz5Hbl0Gp72NQx_eZY5L1OrF5ywk80mB-pPOanx7C_q41wzy8Apa-F0pKnOF-1156pqSuFBnk3L3B-SgSbKTMDEFROYtKWzwq2x0MlHyecNJ0VqP1z601r0Ufog/s4032/IMG_8356.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIcVV-HpiCmeqH_HU7NV4Wk49cvh03ouR1EDSi0SBTdZkm0MrfnWw-iv29NZ3U3e3SlCz5Hbl0Gp72NQx_eZY5L1OrF5ywk80mB-pPOanx7C_q41wzy8Apa-F0pKnOF-1156pqSuFBnk3L3B-SgSbKTMDEFROYtKWzwq2x0MlHyecNJ0VqP1z601r0Ufog/w400-h300/IMG_8356.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhySDlQdCP48y5xFg9QoGaRqx83GIq12KoG4jFWWUDe2e0AU6s6fbpu1eyzn-KXpXyO62t_yGZzfYJ3R68osieG5ioCFZWFnmkvvgXG2B3jfFeu6-LudPE8v0vKJ-_1cMeCYbmV-4A-hO6QPQGzohdM7v5WvH1Y7GtFwmWx8Wafyr2jE8Q8lhoQ_seUIW4t/s4032/IMG_8359.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhySDlQdCP48y5xFg9QoGaRqx83GIq12KoG4jFWWUDe2e0AU6s6fbpu1eyzn-KXpXyO62t_yGZzfYJ3R68osieG5ioCFZWFnmkvvgXG2B3jfFeu6-LudPE8v0vKJ-_1cMeCYbmV-4A-hO6QPQGzohdM7v5WvH1Y7GtFwmWx8Wafyr2jE8Q8lhoQ_seUIW4t/w400-h300/IMG_8359.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUpuFfjQIlFR_SYaaStp-_nKRYnIx5b1A0KG3U74-nXXuKnuqIiQWAR14o3XU_NrAPEg7qYiqBQoPVsXySsBBPuutbJgJk63GhT-0Of45zJO_qmgUGeuB96paqg5lGR4IHxAjxcbNVjq84tIeccONppJmsmvdgLcj1_SRfSFT5RfMz9vKgw8Gjl-oG9Kl/s4032/IMG_8366.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipUpuFfjQIlFR_SYaaStp-_nKRYnIx5b1A0KG3U74-nXXuKnuqIiQWAR14o3XU_NrAPEg7qYiqBQoPVsXySsBBPuutbJgJk63GhT-0Of45zJO_qmgUGeuB96paqg5lGR4IHxAjxcbNVjq84tIeccONppJmsmvdgLcj1_SRfSFT5RfMz9vKgw8Gjl-oG9Kl/w300-h400/IMG_8366.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">And yeah, that would have been cool enough for a day, right? Except we had a Hanukkah party at night? Organized by our dear Keshet, Germany's queer Jewish organization! "Gimme Latkes - a queer Jewish mesiba" took place at Sage, a restaurant-cum-nightclub, and it was a blast! We began with the lighting of the Hanukkiyah, which was built by Keshet members themselves and it was a glorious, colourful, huge fluorescent item with real oil lamps! After moving words about resilience and visibility from both Keshet and a representative from the government of Berlin, we sang the prayers, lit the lights, sang some more... It was cold, it was raining, but it was great. And me, I mean, I trained in Toronto for five years, I laugh at these "cold" winters here, right? LOL</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But after that there was a drag queen show! With Judy La Divina and Anali Goldberg, we had a whole performance full of witty and sassy comments, nice Israeli songs, dancing, and just general raucousness. Because we were happy and having fun and yelling Hava Nagila at the top of our lungs. It was wonderful seeing friends there, and have such a celebration! In fact, I think we can safely say this must have been Germany's biggest queer Jewish party in... forever?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54MSCErrTl3__qyFViUHcTNE-sdnviXknhLik9ltZej98kzo9roWXPQ3nM5he8x6Hv2B___egNeO1ZYIAoAO15AoI32KnSilmpd8mUH2kwzLVCe6BDXLDv73PpkqKTERWDTYd-WvyVAsGVRAFn8TdOqHMh7jc_95cB69b2Fnw2i1oPydow5VKTTB15fdO/s1242/IMG_8369.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="1242" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg54MSCErrTl3__qyFViUHcTNE-sdnviXknhLik9ltZej98kzo9roWXPQ3nM5he8x6Hv2B___egNeO1ZYIAoAO15AoI32KnSilmpd8mUH2kwzLVCe6BDXLDv73PpkqKTERWDTYd-WvyVAsGVRAFn8TdOqHMh7jc_95cB69b2Fnw2i1oPydow5VKTTB15fdO/w400-h399/IMG_8369.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ayEFZzNvAMaPn94aX4T4Xu40-Q4FxPMiHdXsf1IimxN1oH7g3yRBSY0Q1rmzENiAdve4ltOnZrFS2_CjoHiTMMx6cLFaRhyCzSbmeyJxxOtAvnV66dbPLFgWgpvbeBjJ-l5hEU_K0rUU0zihO4oA8Pk39UdicdMnySm1cYCxWQwWEZxgCYzJsVsnuXzT/s4032/IMG_8385.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ayEFZzNvAMaPn94aX4T4Xu40-Q4FxPMiHdXsf1IimxN1oH7g3yRBSY0Q1rmzENiAdve4ltOnZrFS2_CjoHiTMMx6cLFaRhyCzSbmeyJxxOtAvnV66dbPLFgWgpvbeBjJ-l5hEU_K0rUU0zihO4oA8Pk39UdicdMnySm1cYCxWQwWEZxgCYzJsVsnuXzT/w400-h300/IMG_8385.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-O2HBMWauHDjDZxAppVXhl9ciakoiEPIRZrhpZLA9HzxsTS27ATZjmVHLVILNHmhgIbPQnHB28eN0j-KF3PCOaXde7lxuS8GrlmwKMzc__MoFwKpRTF4OwSdE6gONXKUQfSJGZCi89fpkl1ZWb2JVWv1upMs_pFJ74x_nn3_RzZJpzn1C49Grw-UH8xK/s4032/IMG_8395.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-O2HBMWauHDjDZxAppVXhl9ciakoiEPIRZrhpZLA9HzxsTS27ATZjmVHLVILNHmhgIbPQnHB28eN0j-KF3PCOaXde7lxuS8GrlmwKMzc__MoFwKpRTF4OwSdE6gONXKUQfSJGZCi89fpkl1ZWb2JVWv1upMs_pFJ74x_nn3_RzZJpzn1C49Grw-UH8xK/w300-h400/IMG_8395.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHzngKhyphenhyphenF4vS1MSafNVko3P5DYzNxo3AZCoJ5uGhA1tPAL9UcLsE8tPI6ZkErWdYzRFL2NDtuAGO5cKvAb0ojykyHbhEtRwKQJrOk98kaf4oXLhbLCch1DphyphenhypheneWyoqHbkazGVuwlqrof_WVxhwNFvJAocpFIArgxXHfqq4rRT5-aI_Anp7yMupsl-yPcKu/s4032/IMG_8399.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHzngKhyphenhyphenF4vS1MSafNVko3P5DYzNxo3AZCoJ5uGhA1tPAL9UcLsE8tPI6ZkErWdYzRFL2NDtuAGO5cKvAb0ojykyHbhEtRwKQJrOk98kaf4oXLhbLCch1DphyphenhypheneWyoqHbkazGVuwlqrof_WVxhwNFvJAocpFIArgxXHfqq4rRT5-aI_Anp7yMupsl-yPcKu/w300-h400/IMG_8399.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, I know the party went on until 4am, but I had signed up for two more parties I really wanted to go to, so at 1:30am me and the habibi were off, and at 2:00am I was arriving at my next stop - Limax, an FKK (that is, you gotta be nude) techno dance party at Untertage. Untertage has announced it's going to close, so this was my last chance to dance there again. Plus, a bud from the Staatsballet was going to be there and he's proved one awesome party partner. And it was awesome. There is a certain freedom to being naked that I adore, and add to that techno music and friends... It was the perfect segue to the Hanukkah party! </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslhSrOHKk8j6JQZxnyskw0ppmgbVdL77pJm1UjMsImeVUVpYDtcoHC_rAH66_jab857Z8hSIvYorbMO5as4yLgeF0-iRbtotxM9b7j1oSW_eAxD0knq7_6njEcPg-yGl2_gBUYcjkRseVZEwxmk3HgJBsicf4Oo_ozoUSh4q5GY0T97rQ7BB5grxakf0y/s600/IMG_8367.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslhSrOHKk8j6JQZxnyskw0ppmgbVdL77pJm1UjMsImeVUVpYDtcoHC_rAH66_jab857Z8hSIvYorbMO5as4yLgeF0-iRbtotxM9b7j1oSW_eAxD0knq7_6njEcPg-yGl2_gBUYcjkRseVZEwxmk3HgJBsicf4Oo_ozoUSh4q5GY0T97rQ7BB5grxakf0y/w266-h400/IMG_8367.jpeg" width="266" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But that was not all, I had also tickets for Porcenptual at Alte Münze, where I was going to meet another friend. So, as Limax was winding down around 5am, I made my way to this other party. Around 6:00 am Pornceptual still had lots of people there, and the music was as amazing as I remember it! You have no idea how much I enjoy their music, I find it brilliant and it clearly keeps me up and dancing for very long! Plus, my friend was there (funny, I met him at another Pornceptual party back in August or September), and his partner and friends too, and I had an awesome time in their company, going from one dancefloor to the next, exploring the place... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">By 10am my feet were killing me (my boots look good, but after 12 hours of use, my feet hurt!), so I decided it was time to leave... and that's already for next day's entry!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2RRz-QlmC4ozpHhpObGJqGTr1VBe3n3hBHj67TROUfNiMYk9yHbGdGikTz_Rc0YVVOog6V2Y3-UMVHcAsocgSkZTxRiWIEySnSHUZ4RXCw1jMUd4jI6OBwAjIl6qd4qYGSoKBIzQ2HpwgntSXe2u6A6C5VPaOBcCaGVSZZA3tBS6XIKFzkHSC4oYpUhj/s1536/IMG_8370.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD2RRz-QlmC4ozpHhpObGJqGTr1VBe3n3hBHj67TROUfNiMYk9yHbGdGikTz_Rc0YVVOog6V2Y3-UMVHcAsocgSkZTxRiWIEySnSHUZ4RXCw1jMUd4jI6OBwAjIl6qd4qYGSoKBIzQ2HpwgntSXe2u6A6C5VPaOBcCaGVSZZA3tBS6XIKFzkHSC4oYpUhj/w324-h400/IMG_8370.jpeg" width="324" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciBLa8TfrdXHN57acz_BEPCEzjdi-zPXhFonXG8Ri1C9raOSt7G21aozf6vyBTAMBEMySDdFNWGtll1_e51icvXGzjlwBNK3-sH1svTKreeIY2UIGwr6e9hw7eTytQ1ephkOX2JipzfNWnQbRIi-TE5em7-366buwOb2rDvcGdWmjcCRPrgFjh0e7LqGr/s4032/IMG_8411.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiciBLa8TfrdXHN57acz_BEPCEzjdi-zPXhFonXG8Ri1C9raOSt7G21aozf6vyBTAMBEMySDdFNWGtll1_e51icvXGzjlwBNK3-sH1svTKreeIY2UIGwr6e9hw7eTytQ1ephkOX2JipzfNWnQbRIi-TE5em7-366buwOb2rDvcGdWmjcCRPrgFjh0e7LqGr/w300-h400/IMG_8411.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p><i>December </i><i>10th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">You can imagine, after I arrived home at around a quarter to 11:00, I was positively starving. I forced the habibi out of bed, and made him take me for breakfast right away! Poor thing. We ended up at Fotografiska, where a big cup of café crème, a croissant and a serrano pizza made my day. Now, for some weird reason, I was bent on continuing with the day, and I insisted we try and see some exhibition. We ended up at the Bode Museum, where there was a special (though small) Picasso exhibition. But it was nice, what a unique artist, right? His art was placed alongside other Spanish artworks from before and around his time, to provide both context and contrast, as well as a glimpse into Spanish art. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IAnPRalGSyODRDVlkJ6byUo33Vrhu_tvTi9kYNHsLC3OPP7K5vp0_jEiCpJS7Y69yNB8if6ZdPiYsEexcgcH1U6G6igkz1UU2EjlGyjD1YcQgHifGh-RjQEppNURs-ELrgU-SqxzfwGdJeT_mwZEzG0eRQaTwK_oz-fN9LBWafdBnGHDLfoNFUC1ZlvP/s4032/IMG_8419.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3IAnPRalGSyODRDVlkJ6byUo33Vrhu_tvTi9kYNHsLC3OPP7K5vp0_jEiCpJS7Y69yNB8if6ZdPiYsEexcgcH1U6G6igkz1UU2EjlGyjD1YcQgHifGh-RjQEppNURs-ELrgU-SqxzfwGdJeT_mwZEzG0eRQaTwK_oz-fN9LBWafdBnGHDLfoNFUC1ZlvP/w300-h400/IMG_8419.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJRG_XTwnkpjQ03117Xd6-762JvDFeWQjz5b_6gsoR16tQoXYyeenAyuLZb-etXpoUfTRBgFa_anfS0TZ7VmJ3pGQlqAPQMj4NRZPO1WnmHC_CYun3woltpqHudXcshZmSnFK4_Wx6DmvXXs5Nh-sTx4dJPWwkx1Aj-IsR7SBx2fRlaPl7QL-2BI3MN2T/s4032/IMG_8421.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHJRG_XTwnkpjQ03117Xd6-762JvDFeWQjz5b_6gsoR16tQoXYyeenAyuLZb-etXpoUfTRBgFa_anfS0TZ7VmJ3pGQlqAPQMj4NRZPO1WnmHC_CYun3woltpqHudXcshZmSnFK4_Wx6DmvXXs5Nh-sTx4dJPWwkx1Aj-IsR7SBx2fRlaPl7QL-2BI3MN2T/w300-h400/IMG_8421.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was also a separate installation about a Cypriot church screen. It's hard to describe, and it was hard to capture it, as it involved many images, text, sound... But it was a nice experience to sit down and be immersed in prayer- and nature-like sounds and reading ideas that were partly AI-generated and partly curated... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">At that point, though, my body finally started screaming "get me off these feet!", so I finally admitted I really needed to head home, and sit in bed. I didn't sleep right away, though, because I'm obsessed with watching a sci-fi series called The Expanse, so I only took a nap from about 4 to 5, and then started getting ready to... go to a Hanukkah dinner! With Chinese food! Well, "New York-style Chinese take-away food", which was perfect, because then I had no unfair expectations and was able to enjoy it fully for what it was. Plus, the company was absolutely charming - I had friends from Keshet, but the host was a guy that is a reporter and he is one very interesting, sweet and caring character. All in all, a very enjoyable Hanukkah dinner. And a perfect end to an intense weekend. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27wCEik1Oq-_2wXbgmwztMIZwsYUrJZfpz94mtEjapKf-Ogc9IQ1lFhQzMCdguwB47lKkHugv4uWZx3KnsFMvIhAYsxeGRa8cep6UHjz1XwrmVI6KrAnwB8ZqXVxLa-p-O0cW_9bP5xM7rKHRMEFeLIsUpa1FUlV2AUW7fC12OjBILmrp1Ub1fPLImKFV/s2048/01577d5d-46f8-4565-9b2d-bf7f59ea55f2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27wCEik1Oq-_2wXbgmwztMIZwsYUrJZfpz94mtEjapKf-Ogc9IQ1lFhQzMCdguwB47lKkHugv4uWZx3KnsFMvIhAYsxeGRa8cep6UHjz1XwrmVI6KrAnwB8ZqXVxLa-p-O0cW_9bP5xM7rKHRMEFeLIsUpa1FUlV2AUW7fC12OjBILmrp1Ub1fPLImKFV/w400-h225/01577d5d-46f8-4565-9b2d-bf7f59ea55f2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p><i>December </i><i>11th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tonight we went to the Neukölln City Hall (Rathaus) for the 5th night of Hanukkah! It's so nice that a city hall would organize it together with Hillel, another Jewish organization. The head of the Neukölln government talked about how Neukölln's diversity includes its Jewish community, an important statement given how heavily Muslim and Palestinian the neighbourhood is. People I know who live here don't dare put their hanukkiahs by the window (as is a custom) nor wear kippahs or stars of David in public in this area... Anyhow, we lit the candles, danced to the music of Shetl Berlin (a local Klezmer band), enjoyed doughnuts and mulled wine, and spent time with friends and met new people. It just felt so good!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitn2KjwKQp_9-r2MXBDQMbqBVeSlEyAyXD7dIZtowxaHH6GbUyNTSKU5kvcQm9FNtJE7EjPWi7KMJOsXN53OkrOcL8NIAYY-ha6eNJNYQPVcOxzG8nGndnHCbjCxixSH8dINA6YfXFF7dJf35XPtvSL3_bB1krIRF9AR0RJMceDQRjmHNI3ZsFwbeTHtZl/s4032/IMG_8433.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitn2KjwKQp_9-r2MXBDQMbqBVeSlEyAyXD7dIZtowxaHH6GbUyNTSKU5kvcQm9FNtJE7EjPWi7KMJOsXN53OkrOcL8NIAYY-ha6eNJNYQPVcOxzG8nGndnHCbjCxixSH8dINA6YfXFF7dJf35XPtvSL3_bB1krIRF9AR0RJMceDQRjmHNI3ZsFwbeTHtZl/w300-h400/IMG_8433.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMBgwAeLtyRtBzw0V-4jF0ubrXeJYXC-pZ3wWotVoeTDi5OQpIAo4o2-6PhGv-TAIol4AYB_10MtK6_ig8jScwwNYCD5F4Glk8IQHuUPJVH13WLPXZN1bvN121OrXt3Uhv_LnEO6Jt1p0cmYn6y2pg4RsB13O3_1Iw0kKp5nN_3_13WlqJIgda49tt76/s4032/IMG_8439.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMBgwAeLtyRtBzw0V-4jF0ubrXeJYXC-pZ3wWotVoeTDi5OQpIAo4o2-6PhGv-TAIol4AYB_10MtK6_ig8jScwwNYCD5F4Glk8IQHuUPJVH13WLPXZN1bvN121OrXt3Uhv_LnEO6Jt1p0cmYn6y2pg4RsB13O3_1Iw0kKp5nN_3_13WlqJIgda49tt76/w400-h300/IMG_8439.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKfYuCcvZLi4PN3AFzeop8aiJbRIe9mwn8ndZchC1WsZ5WFHcCrpvf42HJItOidKgyTXT_dhom-VgWut_VUPSuvdMLK4ukPaKk3EX7YSZUcJO5R_16GhpGqO9vtTIsLBhMfbbr8p7030FqkIxhKAlgzC0lGYgR6pDjomv_b7pv0FC2o__LVKKlszesdLB/s4032/IMG_8448.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmKfYuCcvZLi4PN3AFzeop8aiJbRIe9mwn8ndZchC1WsZ5WFHcCrpvf42HJItOidKgyTXT_dhom-VgWut_VUPSuvdMLK4ukPaKk3EX7YSZUcJO5R_16GhpGqO9vtTIsLBhMfbbr8p7030FqkIxhKAlgzC0lGYgR6pDjomv_b7pv0FC2o__LVKKlszesdLB/w300-h400/IMG_8448.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>13th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today was the 7th day of Hanukkah, and since I had an extra long workday the day before, I left the office early this day and I ran into a lighting of a Hanukkah Menorah by Chabad at the mall where my gym is! What a coincidence! I had no idea they were there too! I have the feeling they made an extra effort to be at more places this year? The rabbi wasn't that much of a singer, but what mattered was that there was music, light, and doughnuts! Though I didn't have any, because I was on my way to the gym, right? But what a nice surprise! And I got to use a kippah I had decided that very same day to carry in my backpack, just in case!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ilfBAaFBRaG6xyX1usYrnK5Vk_xjmGeki4oqslAiWUE_w5pAEvsjUZhDeaPQAC-A-6FsmVyqRjhj0slt6UBcenrlGrJcuIIINALwaD6JT02m5U-77BpH5Rxhg4iBkCR15vH96zIjz9XHin_cv6V7BZgE9aNQHH7eUR2u-3Hpw86UF8W3vTVVSqi5kU3W/s4032/IMG_8486.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ilfBAaFBRaG6xyX1usYrnK5Vk_xjmGeki4oqslAiWUE_w5pAEvsjUZhDeaPQAC-A-6FsmVyqRjhj0slt6UBcenrlGrJcuIIINALwaD6JT02m5U-77BpH5Rxhg4iBkCR15vH96zIjz9XHin_cv6V7BZgE9aNQHH7eUR2u-3Hpw86UF8W3vTVVSqi5kU3W/w400-h300/IMG_8486.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>14th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday we lit all eight candles in our Hanukkiah. I had saved all the orange candles in the box, and it looked really festive! And the habibi, so sweet, he got latkes, doughnuts, and prepared a delicious stew, so it would be a nice final night... Such a wonderful, loving man. I'm so lucky to have him at my side, and this was a very special Hanukkah - like few other times, it was a good reminder of the need, the cost, the risk, and the rewards of not hiding, and of owning your identity. What a journey this has been since the October 7 attacks...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixncVSOXxQ7keBvMiVvFvcyCHEIn0JjuI4aqjScYbvtPLLlk80qjlIiclWArZR4ERDRZ_02XyNcf4lVF4Jl5o2GzZ0d87k3KIv3GO-gow5pX1ln0hqZGxUzaINMRD-l__Cg7CiD5e0ig_grG7nqXQwDSWDlxFtOSIA7syXAiS097R_8XycpkTpXcMMQMuU/s4032/IMG_8489.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixncVSOXxQ7keBvMiVvFvcyCHEIn0JjuI4aqjScYbvtPLLlk80qjlIiclWArZR4ERDRZ_02XyNcf4lVF4Jl5o2GzZ0d87k3KIv3GO-gow5pX1ln0hqZGxUzaINMRD-l__Cg7CiD5e0ig_grG7nqXQwDSWDlxFtOSIA7syXAiS097R_8XycpkTpXcMMQMuU/w300-h400/IMG_8489.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7nV4jfRYgJatnAb0g2oxcb7H3IPm_d5Aws0DK2DLyIRIUu-ts2VVtiStwMYI_xAiZez6TjiExnU1BjbDP7oYrrmqF2wv0Xv1gLXfDuAh3laWP0XCPQuahowntjaMRoOa5IRATfQOwmQd4Fdnszbt7RDBKoN6oYQFbJt_kU1z960fL7YCg8EipkaEAPDe/s4032/IMG_8497.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz7nV4jfRYgJatnAb0g2oxcb7H3IPm_d5Aws0DK2DLyIRIUu-ts2VVtiStwMYI_xAiZez6TjiExnU1BjbDP7oYrrmqF2wv0Xv1gLXfDuAh3laWP0XCPQuahowntjaMRoOa5IRATfQOwmQd4Fdnszbt7RDBKoN6oYQFbJt_kU1z960fL7YCg8EipkaEAPDe/w300-h400/IMG_8497.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiO3Yk3cTL8KD8k24mV0CV_qHso8YtO5dvTP3iT0cdVPsNyVEurGXQyNYgXq-ZFbPrSzEnzLsBiWsXXtBRRMIBcQ5OFvTy2GliKyWTRjjfdcgi9HRnvhvc0OQ1pJBtGRj5LXtmnrlB8ebiPIqIjMvjIQl36_5OSYkvua9deFA2Yt2u19O7JpCx7cpc1z4e/s4032/IMG_8513.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiO3Yk3cTL8KD8k24mV0CV_qHso8YtO5dvTP3iT0cdVPsNyVEurGXQyNYgXq-ZFbPrSzEnzLsBiWsXXtBRRMIBcQ5OFvTy2GliKyWTRjjfdcgi9HRnvhvc0OQ1pJBtGRj5LXtmnrlB8ebiPIqIjMvjIQl36_5OSYkvua9deFA2Yt2u19O7JpCx7cpc1z4e/w300-h400/IMG_8513.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>16th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, we decided we had to start going to the Christmas markets, because the year is coming to an end and they will be gone soon! We started with the Weihnachtsmarkt am Gendarmenmarkt (an der Staatsoper), one of the "fancier" ones. We had never been to this one, and it really was fancy! There were performers here and there, dressed in gold or silver or white, as fairytale or ethereal beings... it really added a nice touch. But also, the food? There were temporary huts by really good restaurants not only from Berlin, but also one from Austria? Wow! And you could not only have traditional mulled wine, but also champagne! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As usual, we wanted to try many things, but our stomach got full quickly. Mulled wine, a lángos (a Hungarian deep fried flatbread; we had one with cream and cheese), a Neuburger Rahmbrot (a specialty from Neuburg? a delicious bread with, yes, also cream, and ham), and a draft stout beer (at a place where we also got a complimentary bite of a cheddar and meat mince pie! see? fancy!). We finished with roasted and caramelized almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts... Yum!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That this market is surrounded by the beautiful buildings of Bebelplatz, and had tons of elegant and traditional German stars on trees and carps just made it even prettier. What a nice experience! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBKHNtfM0f1qrpRZ0-WKuH_PzRDN2xRwY0VOzDYwYIOhd1ntbi39havt6uCYvgbaJMI4PjM9DZAWLGMdQIqe1giu0lffR-7V90CGBp42j5pCrv9cpFAU7v6a2ncgp3V0HBcMOqjxMQ0PBPXF9CcXGtcF8tpp2wc_2Y-EY3SQP8atAWmQGtNfhsUUHn_gY/s4032/IMG_8536.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlBKHNtfM0f1qrpRZ0-WKuH_PzRDN2xRwY0VOzDYwYIOhd1ntbi39havt6uCYvgbaJMI4PjM9DZAWLGMdQIqe1giu0lffR-7V90CGBp42j5pCrv9cpFAU7v6a2ncgp3V0HBcMOqjxMQ0PBPXF9CcXGtcF8tpp2wc_2Y-EY3SQP8atAWmQGtNfhsUUHn_gY/w300-h400/IMG_8536.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmx3Dm3qAMVoYlQcZHX4dDm8WiD77Kd57eX82o65XudRJeAevum4rguRdXnk5_m2DMrVbcfJSRmpaw558aOQYEu74cIMe4SXC3gdIfcIFsGyIZS6GTdWRuI-KiwLksUDLzftt9YvVcu4wSZJCvFPd8NvuRDeW14ByLiYGjpM4LWRjPJrhl6OF_LGxEmBf/s4032/IMG_8541.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXmx3Dm3qAMVoYlQcZHX4dDm8WiD77Kd57eX82o65XudRJeAevum4rguRdXnk5_m2DMrVbcfJSRmpaw558aOQYEu74cIMe4SXC3gdIfcIFsGyIZS6GTdWRuI-KiwLksUDLzftt9YvVcu4wSZJCvFPd8NvuRDeW14ByLiYGjpM4LWRjPJrhl6OF_LGxEmBf/w400-h300/IMG_8541.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsiVBXVdFy8d3eicg3VAYhnV0trhnXIvb05lL4YjsgR1ANAtkfUBNswzyrNs4fDuAxDcLnB54bbrxSB5ea77awwEYHjOYyov35IfCMaX8BYRjDq4UeiDM3aDTMl7Tq0eML95u1WRSSI_-C3CRIcHP5eGKHljzePsKUs29T-t9JqxkPFplCA0O3aU0Fe4S/s4032/IMG_8544.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsiVBXVdFy8d3eicg3VAYhnV0trhnXIvb05lL4YjsgR1ANAtkfUBNswzyrNs4fDuAxDcLnB54bbrxSB5ea77awwEYHjOYyov35IfCMaX8BYRjDq4UeiDM3aDTMl7Tq0eML95u1WRSSI_-C3CRIcHP5eGKHljzePsKUs29T-t9JqxkPFplCA0O3aU0Fe4S/w400-h300/IMG_8544.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNsS7VDNY6kmgE3jQ7bGFmbIuKtoOMGrfrdF4ngsEmoPofHsniWFDupszUwrC7UJbLHpueh53hPtnC8n9yeE4UXPm_63TGkZcIJ6g-9NNed4urwk3wi6De62iwjA08H8NVLUwdFt1ajt_4ssFkd7xNl4r76qvjAF0rDz16aX3ofyAnPTHcGSaOu90Oi4-/s4032/IMG_8556.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipNsS7VDNY6kmgE3jQ7bGFmbIuKtoOMGrfrdF4ngsEmoPofHsniWFDupszUwrC7UJbLHpueh53hPtnC8n9yeE4UXPm_63TGkZcIJ6g-9NNed4urwk3wi6De62iwjA08H8NVLUwdFt1ajt_4ssFkd7xNl4r76qvjAF0rDz16aX3ofyAnPTHcGSaOu90Oi4-/w400-h300/IMG_8556.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxu4yypI4W4vYJya3rNR0dXvksW3pjNMSZ1CDrqqx8Po9rxVzH-kT3Y9W-c_YlCcyL2341svaSw-vOqZkjieukt1VWI_XeF8oQCDJJPVBdYD_nsF-7Oegk4y9QPiqzVqm4knkVvihukgaphCT9fRq3kWcSMt6rwJFY2zXUalXH08f_vaHQUN88AWe75V_/s4032/IMG_8564.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSxu4yypI4W4vYJya3rNR0dXvksW3pjNMSZ1CDrqqx8Po9rxVzH-kT3Y9W-c_YlCcyL2341svaSw-vOqZkjieukt1VWI_XeF8oQCDJJPVBdYD_nsF-7Oegk4y9QPiqzVqm4knkVvihukgaphCT9fRq3kWcSMt6rwJFY2zXUalXH08f_vaHQUN88AWe75V_/w300-h400/IMG_8564.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, we were only aiming at one market per day, but then the habibi wanted to walk a bit, and then we saw that there were lights by the Humboldt Forum... was that another Christmas market? Yes! It was! The Wintermarkt am Schloßplatz! Less fancy, but a lot bigger and with a lot of atmosphere too! Of course, we had to have another mulled wine, right? I mean. With the Humboldt Forum, the TV tower, and the cathedral all serving as background, this looked pretty amazing, to be honest.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3PBrOLXxM69eBSWCiScDcHKud0W_Iwo62WEHUc9N7p2mOXj-inczCXDOewsej89_YDhc9ZVZutP7Q1WCpxMfjScu3i6lddCP61xXq4AzJHLFI18CwuNg8nR8G4P5FUfxigc2eVuAwu04DswD6zUQbM8v5TXFHZtUP1EvSPyQoxVXnP4GXdUTHdvPaT7L/s4032/IMG_8568.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju3PBrOLXxM69eBSWCiScDcHKud0W_Iwo62WEHUc9N7p2mOXj-inczCXDOewsej89_YDhc9ZVZutP7Q1WCpxMfjScu3i6lddCP61xXq4AzJHLFI18CwuNg8nR8G4P5FUfxigc2eVuAwu04DswD6zUQbM8v5TXFHZtUP1EvSPyQoxVXnP4GXdUTHdvPaT7L/w400-h300/IMG_8568.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5K0-PzkpuwPeDspjaajN0aT0ToFjQ2u-0-xDFmuhSzK5O2CQFqsjJVfPkOvg8ez-G5nZ4Oe5bqExHji7B10fnZx_TT7Ya5-dRXHt5PybzTD6hV2ysHgHLz3kEYTNZ27R3CBVTZU8hCY1mTMcvgSVEsjO6XJxhsxbZyYJE9lnEfPQbHcYiyfWXCEbr1380/s4032/IMG_8570.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5K0-PzkpuwPeDspjaajN0aT0ToFjQ2u-0-xDFmuhSzK5O2CQFqsjJVfPkOvg8ez-G5nZ4Oe5bqExHji7B10fnZx_TT7Ya5-dRXHt5PybzTD6hV2ysHgHLz3kEYTNZ27R3CBVTZU8hCY1mTMcvgSVEsjO6XJxhsxbZyYJE9lnEfPQbHcYiyfWXCEbr1380/w400-h300/IMG_8570.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitkHpPUBl_aA6Bu_kFiClTmPKsdqw3g1_X6_9kCQfcrI2eOUNEi0gg7dtvmlcZ50M2KIebLJMTfUUrRWk-Yr18aOiX_bgYbBBZgl4ZM82lamz-E7d2N1XyfrkiTNumWAdd_pjZXsQhyM1W_1qUvIECTEDj_YCRLdJQDDb61jlBKyd-APPMxiyQYTZkV6jY/s4032/IMG_8574.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitkHpPUBl_aA6Bu_kFiClTmPKsdqw3g1_X6_9kCQfcrI2eOUNEi0gg7dtvmlcZ50M2KIebLJMTfUUrRWk-Yr18aOiX_bgYbBBZgl4ZM82lamz-E7d2N1XyfrkiTNumWAdd_pjZXsQhyM1W_1qUvIECTEDj_YCRLdJQDDb61jlBKyd-APPMxiyQYTZkV6jY/w400-h300/IMG_8574.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So, two Christmas markets. Like only the Germans can do them. But that was not going to be enough for me, right? I realized I might not have the chance to go partying anymore this year, so I signed up for a party called Golosa at a place with a weird name: //:about blank. I had never been to this party, nor to this space, and it was supposed to be a very queer event. Plus, a friend of mine (the same I had gone to Pornceptual with) was going, so it seemed like a pretty good plan! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We started with a drink at Roses, a queer bar in Kottbusser Tor. It's a pretty cool place. Drink selection is limited, the place is small, people smoke, but the walls are covered in red fake fur, and there are tons of crazy decorations. You can't take photos inside, so I can't show you. But it was fun, since we met some German Namibians. Interesting! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But the main goal was Golosa, and after a beer, we made our way there, stood in line (Berlin, Berlin, it's all about lines with you, isn't it!), got in, and partied! I didn't like the distribution of the place much, it's like too elongated, and the dance spaces are also weirdly shaped. But there was a patio (which will be much nicer when it gets less cold), and what mattered was that I was with a friend who knew a million people and I just had a really fun night. I left at 8:00. An early night, I guess?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_Hgib9p5baF7XmQRQkPZY4dimoPiTVMVSAWKQZIaVtzujTjWZqlE4nVjuD1Hkip_ep6urTCDlKlUyHs8rt3V3XzO9spKKXZ6Qsjyi3gpH5vwAR7bCpWdOswg6r9E5ZAkkWwt2NmmR2xAHROIUCCs-inKKLEvkzcIv2Iy6J4V7aPpoGQ5DtUhPz__LIcE/s2097/IMG_8533.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2097" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_Hgib9p5baF7XmQRQkPZY4dimoPiTVMVSAWKQZIaVtzujTjWZqlE4nVjuD1Hkip_ep6urTCDlKlUyHs8rt3V3XzO9spKKXZ6Qsjyi3gpH5vwAR7bCpWdOswg6r9E5ZAkkWwt2NmmR2xAHROIUCCs-inKKLEvkzcIv2Iy6J4V7aPpoGQ5DtUhPz__LIcE/w238-h400/IMG_8533.jpeg" width="238" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOwEvYsvHbYB55aJwPZDCmXLnmg6sjgcg_LGPS62IllKS1-wcnvz0-ydLuRr0TSRgU6wP1nD298mxzOKBj-urMk1SJhoW4nsZILmSPDHgw4t7q44g9GIc4pknhw3AfHont3HdoLmxzz64XW4_NRYxJWo_9jij0FX3WOFgXvar_p3PhqzeuAdgyVaIigNH/s4032/IMG_8578.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOwEvYsvHbYB55aJwPZDCmXLnmg6sjgcg_LGPS62IllKS1-wcnvz0-ydLuRr0TSRgU6wP1nD298mxzOKBj-urMk1SJhoW4nsZILmSPDHgw4t7q44g9GIc4pknhw3AfHont3HdoLmxzz64XW4_NRYxJWo_9jij0FX3WOFgXvar_p3PhqzeuAdgyVaIigNH/w400-h300/IMG_8578.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>17th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The habibi wanted to see some furniture at the RAW flea market, in Friedrichshain. I really like that area, it's so quirky, the people, vendors and spaces at RAW are alternative, colourful, and a bit crazy... I'm happy we went back. Sadly, the furniture shop changed its style, and the habibi didn't like anything of what they had on sale... So that was kind of a bummer, but since we were there, we had a look at another Christmas market, right? The Historischer Weihnachtsmark, which tries to... well, offer like a medieval-like feel? I don't know. I mean, you could practice throwing balls at trolls looking from windows in a house, practice archery and axe throwing, have a consultation with a witch and a wizard... </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was peculiar. Like the whole area. I love how serious these people are about their Christmas markets! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg51T75V71DqYFxT6kaox6-ezrCInRTQ0kSbnxLztpMutodF7yjdusJptTN2Vllciv0iLxIOPMWx7IiLkoVtG2tUjGXDTXsq38eQwxakK6G68cPLJXbWmdWdTr79XjNNX8GXX1FZbS15NSJlaCFcdlNWMccGD6eZrEgtuzOFTcNQi6nwkXjholDVbWnXqL/s3976/IMG_8594.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2982" data-original-width="3976" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg51T75V71DqYFxT6kaox6-ezrCInRTQ0kSbnxLztpMutodF7yjdusJptTN2Vllciv0iLxIOPMWx7IiLkoVtG2tUjGXDTXsq38eQwxakK6G68cPLJXbWmdWdTr79XjNNX8GXX1FZbS15NSJlaCFcdlNWMccGD6eZrEgtuzOFTcNQi6nwkXjholDVbWnXqL/w400-h300/IMG_8594.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tMCqh45g1Jr9BK_gp-CEbIrkvpMxlcF-c4Y6j6KjtQDyQ2EjF2T5IBJV1p_TQYXzjI-Kr9d1WlWBOjNQQ572MMrPjWed3MKJiW3UIl091mKnBCxmDigXtknTM8pi2tN1k1VVG_-hgscPXRAlEcB63huC7isLdT1mzLNhnQhoEkscFOmdI63D1IPrwUzh/s4032/IMG_8596.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tMCqh45g1Jr9BK_gp-CEbIrkvpMxlcF-c4Y6j6KjtQDyQ2EjF2T5IBJV1p_TQYXzjI-Kr9d1WlWBOjNQQ572MMrPjWed3MKJiW3UIl091mKnBCxmDigXtknTM8pi2tN1k1VVG_-hgscPXRAlEcB63huC7isLdT1mzLNhnQhoEkscFOmdI63D1IPrwUzh/w400-h300/IMG_8596.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And at night, we did yet another one. Yes, I know, we went from not seeing any to doing four in a single weekend. But we were going to watch a film, so it was more like taking advantage that we had to be in the area anyhow, so before the film we visited the City Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market on Breitscheidplatz), by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche). Did we have mulled wine? We did. Did we eat something tasty, heavy and very German? We did - Spätzle with onion and cheese! Spätzle is a kind of German egg pasta, with very short noodles. Hearty! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But also, this is where in 2016 there was a terror attack on the market, with a truck, which killed 12 people and injured 56. It felt strange seeing the memorial, the names of the victims... Such a weird world we live in. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9a8-VVrbpnFAg3wLnwd5x0mFgoroOa4xRNgZBo69eppWGQVvh833xmc7uNodbCD99S00cSuA3GoDi4W58LDKAyUQUAcikpVErtOZbaDM_wE16xzQ3qvOikoGDk9XZHWr6CknaUdPInZPB2AADqvNY4DnlzNpuJW6UrZriL5Jf4DgFotClJ_u7K-hanzv/s4032/IMG_8598.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9a8-VVrbpnFAg3wLnwd5x0mFgoroOa4xRNgZBo69eppWGQVvh833xmc7uNodbCD99S00cSuA3GoDi4W58LDKAyUQUAcikpVErtOZbaDM_wE16xzQ3qvOikoGDk9XZHWr6CknaUdPInZPB2AADqvNY4DnlzNpuJW6UrZriL5Jf4DgFotClJ_u7K-hanzv/w400-h300/IMG_8598.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8tkreUz6El0oErpckzD2Jwcuj5TOhT93BUBu05jhLvcT-W68S4CSJ2WsTMxYItpnoYYWDE_e9J78Jxe6osjNZb1GgdYfVGZTIckyv1F_5cK3X1xCriHVXoFIjYsruXrt1CPDuyCPE5GUmF7A7l6Tp4ARTOTe4sL-1jBA3tu7IU003mj6Fyk5NEljGznH/s4032/IMG_8599.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8tkreUz6El0oErpckzD2Jwcuj5TOhT93BUBu05jhLvcT-W68S4CSJ2WsTMxYItpnoYYWDE_e9J78Jxe6osjNZb1GgdYfVGZTIckyv1F_5cK3X1xCriHVXoFIjYsruXrt1CPDuyCPE5GUmF7A7l6Tp4ARTOTe4sL-1jBA3tu7IU003mj6Fyk5NEljGznH/w400-h300/IMG_8599.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqvKqzVAyRACRkRGabrkYmhN99hfBQYQtib6XVaeRN-Dy_husMSGjNSanAi7W3PiW5ljIwrvpl3R3fhlv8ynmS299bTPei1Fwg1POnHNiZZqk9X-y7Wk_3FS6SaUra-J-x9D683kOBkIaOKlymkrQ2Q_3fIQDbaJqYfZADaT66Mpo8T5sYUsOKI7Rd8l7/s4032/IMG_8605.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimqvKqzVAyRACRkRGabrkYmhN99hfBQYQtib6XVaeRN-Dy_husMSGjNSanAi7W3PiW5ljIwrvpl3R3fhlv8ynmS299bTPei1Fwg1POnHNiZZqk9X-y7Wk_3FS6SaUra-J-x9D683kOBkIaOKlymkrQ2Q_3fIQDbaJqYfZADaT66Mpo8T5sYUsOKI7Rd8l7/w400-h300/IMG_8605.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>20th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, yes, I admit it, we visited yet another Christmas market. This time at a historic brewery known as Kulturbrauerei. And the market? It was the Lucia Weihnachtsmarkt (or Lucia Christmas Market), a Swedish-Scandinavian-Nordic inspired market. Frankly, we thought we'd see a lot more Scandinavian food. But still, we did get our hands on some deer sausage with cranberry mustard (really good!) and a drink, or two, or three? We tried some Swedish glögg, which is the Scandinavian version of mulled wine. We also sampled some organic Berlin gin, made with Spree River cucumbers, lavender flowers, licorice root and bitter orange (and it tasted so good we bought a bottle!). And we then tried some Jólaglögg, or the Icelandic version of mulled wine, made with lots of berries that gave it a very nice tart taste! Finally, and because I just couldn't resist the temptation, I had a shot of vodka from the Faroe Islands! Kind of like Reyka vodka, but a bit herbal. Very tasty!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, and we also saw an angel – a woman dressed in white, with wings, on stilts, wandering around the market and welcoming people. Cute detail. But with this, I hope we can declare our exploration of Berlin Christmas markets over – can't keep eating and drinking this much, right?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvhTx9Phn4pAT1AzHELN91TCf0114P6ThQXtb8E2lKKoxresWjw3bDT-fqQe8jJlIXHFpbKN8ufQDyZ4jGh8fD0C5vl40bMgB_7opPBhmsBmzw0neHzzZHFusW7gpQJUmYCk4hfVD6Sq1EDKZEP2glTS9_T3B5ov_cTGeQXTa-W2zq4ahoebbQyIdagxp/s4032/IMG_8624.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvhTx9Phn4pAT1AzHELN91TCf0114P6ThQXtb8E2lKKoxresWjw3bDT-fqQe8jJlIXHFpbKN8ufQDyZ4jGh8fD0C5vl40bMgB_7opPBhmsBmzw0neHzzZHFusW7gpQJUmYCk4hfVD6Sq1EDKZEP2glTS9_T3B5ov_cTGeQXTa-W2zq4ahoebbQyIdagxp/w400-h300/IMG_8624.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIt4T5bWqYDndxMFcl4o_N94QlTkTvDKYHozMahRhtb9Tvv06dAkM70Vk7-gP06SgwT6t-BJkuljBB4AIAObmwfMGWitEeHVnLvTCuRpBS1jo4A-fzkv5Ar7gReGG4dEWvvhvmr8ut2oLCjURteCF7zQIETjiA3aJ1Hbxuun3pGbSLFgN2ZiIfdZPbA-ZR/s4032/IMG_8625.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIt4T5bWqYDndxMFcl4o_N94QlTkTvDKYHozMahRhtb9Tvv06dAkM70Vk7-gP06SgwT6t-BJkuljBB4AIAObmwfMGWitEeHVnLvTCuRpBS1jo4A-fzkv5Ar7gReGG4dEWvvhvmr8ut2oLCjURteCF7zQIETjiA3aJ1Hbxuun3pGbSLFgN2ZiIfdZPbA-ZR/w400-h300/IMG_8625.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETu3DF1h5FCRM7xHlJXObFoRHw_soznK_D8dvrwSEXGKoT_06I6r3IZGNz-BtSBk-boGZdx1SqSEQHINyIcOBtp3G-VIXeaascpY6N5r6MXVcl_ewb0bLqG-IM-zzLHPc9pKhNs1j6dxZfMvW6gUi0SZ_Z0R1siNmUXqG2zhIu8IAz5lCLg-BJLIvAb06/s4032/IMG_8628.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETu3DF1h5FCRM7xHlJXObFoRHw_soznK_D8dvrwSEXGKoT_06I6r3IZGNz-BtSBk-boGZdx1SqSEQHINyIcOBtp3G-VIXeaascpY6N5r6MXVcl_ewb0bLqG-IM-zzLHPc9pKhNs1j6dxZfMvW6gUi0SZ_Z0R1siNmUXqG2zhIu8IAz5lCLg-BJLIvAb06/w400-h300/IMG_8628.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMX3nQ6q-7kp72R8I4EoCquGydgyj0X40uQsDJDLLVq-IhOakTQlpRl2kItzZgtmI_7lT9UCZxBcAFumWHN35QfwKmv2N4zriyAvvIC_h93lyQBOscx9z2QeWD5zMaPtiV_yscg-olCygENdAMPYuf9MmYwGiAWo-omV-VOTleCUkfDezC4mc8vD2iO0e/s3444/IMG_8638.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3444" data-original-width="2583" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMX3nQ6q-7kp72R8I4EoCquGydgyj0X40uQsDJDLLVq-IhOakTQlpRl2kItzZgtmI_7lT9UCZxBcAFumWHN35QfwKmv2N4zriyAvvIC_h93lyQBOscx9z2QeWD5zMaPtiV_yscg-olCygENdAMPYuf9MmYwGiAWo-omV-VOTleCUkfDezC4mc8vD2iO0e/w300-h400/IMG_8638.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-17403541637670074662023-12-08T16:58:00.004+08:002024-01-23T16:56:32.152+08:00the road to Christmas and Hanukkah<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>this is a summary of our life in Berlin from December 1st to 6th</i></p><p><i>December 1st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The weather was sunny! So, my explorations around Tiergarten at lunchtime were simply stunning. So beautiful, can't get enough of it! I love the water, the snow, the rust-coloured and yellow leaves still on trees... Really, how nice.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, a bud of mine told me about a party at KitKatClub, called FourPlay. I had never been to it, and I thought it would be interesting to see yet another party at Kitty. Plus, the ticket ad read as very queer and diverse... Now, when I got there, it looked more straight and cis than I expected, but at least at the entrance they didn't seem to mind we were two guys. Once inside, I had so much fun! The DJs were good, especially a woman in the Dragon Room (that's a space where from a certain hour there is actual fire "breathed out" by a dragon head). But also, the Salon Rouge (a comfy space that is used for tango sessions) was open as well. I have good chemistry with my bud, and he always meets friends where we go, so I get to meet more people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I left early, at around 4:00 am, because I still had another party I wanted to go to the next day. But the five hours I spent there were so good!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhhOOHzWn2j8eoDaZxpycxyRjC3s4kInYAIMzo7CbcStu1phbo-vA20ZbrJZt_y1o4E-tYH0I9fjj2KQhaTwqm8LmheAeVtic8iJPIIzRfjAO-HxRfxB1IPhswBJ7vqXgr4qatWWoPQdcx1UwZZwaq3HfkD7gjKtkzsZ7IvyyUXnbFKbr9tqBzPI_fSv_/s4032/IMG_8159.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhhOOHzWn2j8eoDaZxpycxyRjC3s4kInYAIMzo7CbcStu1phbo-vA20ZbrJZt_y1o4E-tYH0I9fjj2KQhaTwqm8LmheAeVtic8iJPIIzRfjAO-HxRfxB1IPhswBJ7vqXgr4qatWWoPQdcx1UwZZwaq3HfkD7gjKtkzsZ7IvyyUXnbFKbr9tqBzPI_fSv_/w400-h300/IMG_8159.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmYQ3kc1olpNzi85Fa8MquTeAEnXp8-wj5mG-35vV91VJ_AiCqOsCkhVrTN78EatzQH4S2SVIijV1Rhwhh5UTPSS17k9EFwTVakGxWbmIxgD6q9O7WH59svz7QTbdTpIza23-DA65NUFcDmLbk4BsjnC9KeFyJ3PReUhSyHhyAdiYp-Ank9KP-MtQgKXm/s4032/IMG_8173.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmYQ3kc1olpNzi85Fa8MquTeAEnXp8-wj5mG-35vV91VJ_AiCqOsCkhVrTN78EatzQH4S2SVIijV1Rhwhh5UTPSS17k9EFwTVakGxWbmIxgD6q9O7WH59svz7QTbdTpIza23-DA65NUFcDmLbk4BsjnC9KeFyJ3PReUhSyHhyAdiYp-Ank9KP-MtQgKXm/w400-h300/IMG_8173.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoOCJkANMT6pM0HgUTb-nIKODjKyuAoTAGd9pO_IjsVArSNGHmGV41G7lyJ0QS2a8fEZ3cqOKmtDAiLlwVgberXXIjEDfDs27aTM8UoPSVGwRCf8xamhLAjSGu5eq-6KQgiBbFOfwF6BBydxGzFP2g5LTe3YdA7C9mc_MgqtWRgrAux0GJAPV3tvVXAE4/s4032/IMG_8178.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKoOCJkANMT6pM0HgUTb-nIKODjKyuAoTAGd9pO_IjsVArSNGHmGV41G7lyJ0QS2a8fEZ3cqOKmtDAiLlwVgberXXIjEDfDs27aTM8UoPSVGwRCf8xamhLAjSGu5eq-6KQgiBbFOfwF6BBydxGzFP2g5LTe3YdA7C9mc_MgqtWRgrAux0GJAPV3tvVXAE4/w400-h300/IMG_8178.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3MLhvCSWPUEnKlEosCV1Ix76Wh2xVrLD8nUmAU-0-G2n-N0HfTDcXSLHdUSP0LoZvOiolG0AnGPhn2ldgRo7f3F37s1VX1uqZD9w-iSwg__tNGFVlnOVdeoYt9lRVyZWs1QdJbmNpSdjX0QdKDcBnNGdfDTMCEHWYBmqEGiWZIe4DwS5Dh1GJfSYG8tw/s4032/IMG_8184.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw3MLhvCSWPUEnKlEosCV1Ix76Wh2xVrLD8nUmAU-0-G2n-N0HfTDcXSLHdUSP0LoZvOiolG0AnGPhn2ldgRo7f3F37s1VX1uqZD9w-iSwg__tNGFVlnOVdeoYt9lRVyZWs1QdJbmNpSdjX0QdKDcBnNGdfDTMCEHWYBmqEGiWZIe4DwS5Dh1GJfSYG8tw/w300-h400/IMG_8184.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvXtOQDBNC4hJjf2OF0YnRMIyE1B9FpfU3d_5tcB91oSIb0UpyMrgjAgmzcxlf8zXKoPkx13d2GcsMNRp1GDr4Fqd9B4yKG-laiviPHDZM7HjMwxXkSTE_v-Vj_r7Gv5VAlSKJ9uqGNdyrvVKC0LziS5K4YCIIleB9HYqHx4SXKtJAv0aBP3jcpI0O_Aw/s4032/IMG_8196.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvXtOQDBNC4hJjf2OF0YnRMIyE1B9FpfU3d_5tcB91oSIb0UpyMrgjAgmzcxlf8zXKoPkx13d2GcsMNRp1GDr4Fqd9B4yKG-laiviPHDZM7HjMwxXkSTE_v-Vj_r7Gv5VAlSKJ9uqGNdyrvVKC0LziS5K4YCIIleB9HYqHx4SXKtJAv0aBP3jcpI0O_Aw/w400-h300/IMG_8196.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>December </i><i>2nd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A peculiar day! I met a friend from Keshet (my queer Jewish group) to... go on a frozen toboggan ride in Potsdamer Platz! He told me he loved it, I said I had never been on it, and voila, soon we were sliding down at high speed on the icy surface! That was fun! And it was followed by coffee and tea nearby. I'm making good on my plan to see friends one-on-one more often! Yay!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But after that, the habibi took us to see theatre at the Schaubühne – The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe von Maria Braun), from Fassbinder. Wow, it's such a tragic story, and so representative of the chaos and life-changing circumstances brought about by WWII. Though I did use the translation subtitles available, it was nice to see I could more or less follow the play in German! Although who knows how much of it I would have understood if I hadn't known what the play was about beforehand, right? But I really enjoyed it. Plus, I mean, seeing a play by Fassbinder in Germany, staged by the famous Thomas Ostermeier?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, the night was supposed to end with a queer Latin party called Puticlub. It was even the habibi's idea to go there. Sadly, the Latin aspect was a bit too present and the queue to enter was a mess. I won't get into much detail, but it looked like it was going to remain chaotic, and that the coat check could be equally messy, and decided to sell our tickets there and there and headed for a nice beer at the Biererei in Kottbusser Tor (where I had an amazing coffee porter), and then I met a buddy at a bar called Ficken 3000. I had never been there, so I was happy to finally see the place. Cute bar, not bad music, with a backroom/maze downstairs... Glad to have added yet another spot to my list!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9-UeSj78BvWXw9t-jdnXTeagZYGGqF9TDgeB0eAXqFFrXJI82bJPXXJo5ew4huUs3ImLyUUyNg6twlmfJNNZbox0hLnWK6hteRVIWCBr_uY6AevxFU04cHSWQER5EMMnDY_434qLz93RkyT_AO_Kq-T7EbobCZKH1lv99nvUSyT8WHl79tuvhY9YTHlF/s4032/IMG_8207.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu9-UeSj78BvWXw9t-jdnXTeagZYGGqF9TDgeB0eAXqFFrXJI82bJPXXJo5ew4huUs3ImLyUUyNg6twlmfJNNZbox0hLnWK6hteRVIWCBr_uY6AevxFU04cHSWQER5EMMnDY_434qLz93RkyT_AO_Kq-T7EbobCZKH1lv99nvUSyT8WHl79tuvhY9YTHlF/w400-h300/IMG_8207.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwY8f0UKxopsM2ApSiUOPUy8xuoUz5AOvhd1-6R6DBpg88i80X-YwCrcNd_WitxvUz3mIzRHZQsKp-5zOjVS6tHO-gUnzqKQ8abkPMTu7K7wIPx3jGlgAaVyZ82f7iocLKH2Z6BaVW52bcaNUaX0atXQrVE5amExRKIqFyW0Ogr7U9HdsL4OnfE_2S3n9M/s4032/IMG_8209.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwY8f0UKxopsM2ApSiUOPUy8xuoUz5AOvhd1-6R6DBpg88i80X-YwCrcNd_WitxvUz3mIzRHZQsKp-5zOjVS6tHO-gUnzqKQ8abkPMTu7K7wIPx3jGlgAaVyZ82f7iocLKH2Z6BaVW52bcaNUaX0atXQrVE5amExRKIqFyW0Ogr7U9HdsL4OnfE_2S3n9M/w400-h300/IMG_8209.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ms3wbjtVX6C4apSnHQe0hOu6J60FxoqWYqqyr-g-n0IJ_w6zHVjYnaMKz0WyYV4rk293UEHoO4zOEnu-8D1oSDL8cTy5RmmT5LBDfmzqthm4D3ofZd1yXo54rFTFz3sQwBFF59BCtSuq7wio3jDdm71kC-KNdEIYw4M8nSey6BCUWoYe9DDJG7tW0dmQ/s4032/IMG_8215.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ms3wbjtVX6C4apSnHQe0hOu6J60FxoqWYqqyr-g-n0IJ_w6zHVjYnaMKz0WyYV4rk293UEHoO4zOEnu-8D1oSDL8cTy5RmmT5LBDfmzqthm4D3ofZd1yXo54rFTFz3sQwBFF59BCtSuq7wio3jDdm71kC-KNdEIYw4M8nSey6BCUWoYe9DDJG7tW0dmQ/w400-h300/IMG_8215.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlH4IBDfapIHG6pe1kX2dRfz1DIOFXsLqCvfmC6frkeRrDzdbrvLCdpcx6hOnQYn5eq6EoyRkzMa1D4rc5MWMn4nb0DXocY_nGZVlCNAb5x4IFbyfaznWLiofFN_XAtJq7jHYSqczUfONRcUXtoGSkhxe0FaQKQaL5C7RCMvFj75p2oP37cMHejx0Fp56/s4032/IMG_8219.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvlH4IBDfapIHG6pe1kX2dRfz1DIOFXsLqCvfmC6frkeRrDzdbrvLCdpcx6hOnQYn5eq6EoyRkzMa1D4rc5MWMn4nb0DXocY_nGZVlCNAb5x4IFbyfaznWLiofFN_XAtJq7jHYSqczUfONRcUXtoGSkhxe0FaQKQaL5C7RCMvFj75p2oP37cMHejx0Fp56/w400-h300/IMG_8219.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_Z7Z7jjzl0JGADHUReW0tUrYBdZBoW_k0v92pHJPkogqNAcKJUZ4RbBTpg-c5EClNRw8GS_S2A_KaFiEBZfKjm2lUrUu-qkgQ3kCz-W1ViPUqrzcqw6k3eU1R30mgkt5REU2LIOws6JzkfmBAbOoAbuGBz7MQQ69MQWj-m6a4DhB7bZ4hR5QR0jHhULU/s4032/IMG_8220.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK_Z7Z7jjzl0JGADHUReW0tUrYBdZBoW_k0v92pHJPkogqNAcKJUZ4RbBTpg-c5EClNRw8GS_S2A_KaFiEBZfKjm2lUrUu-qkgQ3kCz-W1ViPUqrzcqw6k3eU1R30mgkt5REU2LIOws6JzkfmBAbOoAbuGBz7MQQ69MQWj-m6a4DhB7bZ4hR5QR0jHhULU/w400-h300/IMG_8220.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>December </i><i>3rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, I guess this was not the most intellectual of days, as it consisted of mainly eating, drinking and shopping? I had a delicious brunch at the Alchemist, with some pancakes with bacon, fried eggs, and maple syrup. Plus Tabasco sauce. Because, you know, I just had to have that sweet and spicy mix, right? It was so good!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Shopping? I've become really excited about all the parties I'm going to, and I felt I needed something more playful and less fetish-like, so we went to a shop in Schnöneberg and I got a fun and absolutely pink outfit for parties like Horse Meat Disco. Can't wait to wear it!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Drinking? We finally went to a Christmas market, at Nollendorf Platz! This is the LGBTQ one. We had some Glühwein (mulled wine), listened to some music (like Padam Padam, from Kylie Minogue), and watched people. The warm mulled wine was just perfect!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, back home, we stopped by a gelateria. Just because I was curious to see if they had any new flavours... And they did! I had a scoop of Hokkaido pumpkin with orange sauce and coconut crumble. It was slightly bitter, and tasted a bit like pumpkin pie, so so so good!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissqCRbHfNIbrMZjJ5v8pS4f3Ze_EXq8Ehm2B3zNO_3KyD5HJ9ndKNFRywL6GWOuzP4dlY11ZYJAeuT3tBoN121-uVRJQpm6BQpyheJxrBdaaVl7ajssex4SareQTFqr3RjFaaBMiJg2wyqr7vzyCEDL0pLqr9A9ZYvL12v_WcflDDuzQyb7KiPO4LaQU7/s4032/IMG_8227.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEissqCRbHfNIbrMZjJ5v8pS4f3Ze_EXq8Ehm2B3zNO_3KyD5HJ9ndKNFRywL6GWOuzP4dlY11ZYJAeuT3tBoN121-uVRJQpm6BQpyheJxrBdaaVl7ajssex4SareQTFqr3RjFaaBMiJg2wyqr7vzyCEDL0pLqr9A9ZYvL12v_WcflDDuzQyb7KiPO4LaQU7/w400-h300/IMG_8227.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBpmY55GoUxXccZLRX2JCGAe4pvOSLwyk7giS2BAUJRNtG1G98xvuxGlloVydrUIcgL1yYMOBIehdSxzaUxbS0LZObNEecBPb_x8hrqkuUSbOF0XEhV1nxIOI6fzxYMUoWMhBlxiJZghrFtLJe_RZNVNYYZD-GIPekLmAftwft-kDBiawRlwV_7uIXMNd/s4032/IMG_8230.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBpmY55GoUxXccZLRX2JCGAe4pvOSLwyk7giS2BAUJRNtG1G98xvuxGlloVydrUIcgL1yYMOBIehdSxzaUxbS0LZObNEecBPb_x8hrqkuUSbOF0XEhV1nxIOI6fzxYMUoWMhBlxiJZghrFtLJe_RZNVNYYZD-GIPekLmAftwft-kDBiawRlwV_7uIXMNd/w300-h400/IMG_8230.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQql9A5UsZzhFxHnSJ0F8AFSC9p6CNcB0OBpReA3kywzvVEa5Gzz1Wj_aGEynZ7jtKQHge7q5dODWafszZ5DgWoHunUhmAJYCmawxhorQ18wfKFiWcL8JjAcA9tpQDOnWv9-9CgLozmWmVHHSEzzuH-xBA8Jzyq3kWhu6sOLbUZcWSi2Kwf8epxO7Y9LKh/s4032/IMG_8235.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQql9A5UsZzhFxHnSJ0F8AFSC9p6CNcB0OBpReA3kywzvVEa5Gzz1Wj_aGEynZ7jtKQHge7q5dODWafszZ5DgWoHunUhmAJYCmawxhorQ18wfKFiWcL8JjAcA9tpQDOnWv9-9CgLozmWmVHHSEzzuH-xBA8Jzyq3kWhu6sOLbUZcWSi2Kwf8epxO7Y9LKh/w400-h300/IMG_8235.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">December </i><i>6th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's been snowing! Snow makes me so happy. It brings back so many good memories mostly from Canada, but in general I think I've always been happy in snowy places. It's perfect weather for me. At least right now?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcg-XrYwCh5h4QgzCdiJVPneuCIvK648c_TsxeN0s4P7vKvpAME4WMhpDKi6ammxAhzLKvAgx0FhVFZvQ3xgj9eHSPjeQnVpUIrZHlx9VDxAdmRBVSO79CsQ-no3wNBzmDoK_JDVpr-Mptn6sFXoziCBhEeZytCl1PIyM1snH0UFA7lIcT0nPYf4lOpafG/s4032/IMG_8240.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcg-XrYwCh5h4QgzCdiJVPneuCIvK648c_TsxeN0s4P7vKvpAME4WMhpDKi6ammxAhzLKvAgx0FhVFZvQ3xgj9eHSPjeQnVpUIrZHlx9VDxAdmRBVSO79CsQ-no3wNBzmDoK_JDVpr-Mptn6sFXoziCBhEeZytCl1PIyM1snH0UFA7lIcT0nPYf4lOpafG/w300-h400/IMG_8240.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RiQscnn6mRXdnWhlgVKsPI1Vex2OKme940vhfHh7X42Zm601cPNwnCLyXip4SdQLN6Xt7d0HFTYw13hjqzvzj_hQ38_MvUk0FbSNlypS1XMb4VAlhxV2ZhEtcI50F6y6MN0v185DLLQrbcU9BCM0J0VfeL0O8oaVnfATITcplEeUZIgC-8YHkQo41Ddd/s4032/IMG_8243.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7RiQscnn6mRXdnWhlgVKsPI1Vex2OKme940vhfHh7X42Zm601cPNwnCLyXip4SdQLN6Xt7d0HFTYw13hjqzvzj_hQ38_MvUk0FbSNlypS1XMb4VAlhxV2ZhEtcI50F6y6MN0v185DLLQrbcU9BCM0J0VfeL0O8oaVnfATITcplEeUZIgC-8YHkQo41Ddd/w300-h400/IMG_8243.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQJpTz6cPFbZX5B_XZ_oFK54rXOo2R3cUTPAwJmg0gf_djGXXcNFUwW958rc1mgTqvn_yK15S0aqr2xKnmEG4fTmYWmlLig4Q0KPrifud5LUnb5Lnngq7CIDgNXW-7ADSQxI8OMhq2sDrJpyAQtZKTDyiw_JiTfX2bYLC7Cjd4pT1w9JAY6O4Wemvk_ct3/s4032/IMG_8259.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQJpTz6cPFbZX5B_XZ_oFK54rXOo2R3cUTPAwJmg0gf_djGXXcNFUwW958rc1mgTqvn_yK15S0aqr2xKnmEG4fTmYWmlLig4Q0KPrifud5LUnb5Lnngq7CIDgNXW-7ADSQxI8OMhq2sDrJpyAQtZKTDyiw_JiTfX2bYLC7Cjd4pT1w9JAY6O4Wemvk_ct3/w400-h300/IMG_8259.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-48735522415215539132023-12-01T18:29:00.001+08:002023-12-01T18:29:19.700+08:00November – of remembrance, Korean minimalism, and a snowy autumn<p style="text-align: left;"><i>1st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I was greeted by gorgeous red leaves in Tiergarten. This specific corner by a pond gave us the most beautiful and colourful sights of the whole park last year. Looking forward to keep seeing it transform. Some sunshine, colour, calm... I made the decision to engage less with people regarding the conflict - minds are pretty much made up, too many people ignore too much of the context to understand what they say, and I just want to be able to take my mind off this and think other thoughts for a bit... After all, I myself won't change the world, though I'm as ready as ever to engage in empathic, rational conversations in person, if need be. But nobody wants that, all we want is quick posts and reactions...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Red trees... red trees... red trees...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NGcHhH0Ohyphenhyphenzm-KVHGlczYIsAtSG4kc1dbhXumHcpoVOZWXVgfYb9Egt9AsJ0oNgZY-3utY4ZKl-D2S6WJ730rIz9seqDCzWzKdT2lGY4SmWtPrpZJItfNFpZ6z_PPBH-kdZM6MZCykTqw95I707Da2huNRXp28ZuqLP-rKHkN4t_GUdCQhLDJ7SGcXr9/s4032/IMG_7112.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3NGcHhH0Ohyphenhyphenzm-KVHGlczYIsAtSG4kc1dbhXumHcpoVOZWXVgfYb9Egt9AsJ0oNgZY-3utY4ZKl-D2S6WJ730rIz9seqDCzWzKdT2lGY4SmWtPrpZJItfNFpZ6z_PPBH-kdZM6MZCykTqw95I707Da2huNRXp28ZuqLP-rKHkN4t_GUdCQhLDJ7SGcXr9/w400-h300/IMG_7112.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>3rd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">How lucky am I to get to walk through Tiergarten every morning? There is a bridge with a sort of small post (I have no idea what it's for), and the whole scene, with the bridge, the post, and the path ahead... it reminds me of Japan... weird, right?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At night, in Wolfsburg, I got to witness what I thought was an amazing performance by contemporary dancer Michelle Félix, with music by Gilberto Moreno. Michelle has worked a lot with north Mexico's indigenous peoples to learn about a ritual deer dance, and with that as inspiration and her education as a contemporary dancer, she created Juya Ania. Part of her attire consists of leg coverings made from dried butterfly chrysalides filled with pebbles, and a belt with deer hooves! I love seeing her perform and create. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">While waiting for my train back to Berlin I saw Der Spiegel and Der Stern, two very important German magazines, both with the subject of antisemitism as their cover. A sad reminder of the times we're living in. Fucking train delays that led me to wander into the shop that had the magazines...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsbQU1nh_J8HqAH4ZyGpQV-kdmcwdG7gVO0IkY3YaDfXJ9nlxfTn-Sv7fHLph_-BLSw8FdgSo-MvBLbEGT-qtsphQ6Z6aXXtRLy39nOMfXGOHOhcT-VFdPlFyVTM0rLvTrIVtoRzJGD2R4w-ygxrIF8AK04A9IW7cIjF9rRp_sqSgwpcOPDttDqvfgHtP/s4032/IMG_7135.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsbQU1nh_J8HqAH4ZyGpQV-kdmcwdG7gVO0IkY3YaDfXJ9nlxfTn-Sv7fHLph_-BLSw8FdgSo-MvBLbEGT-qtsphQ6Z6aXXtRLy39nOMfXGOHOhcT-VFdPlFyVTM0rLvTrIVtoRzJGD2R4w-ygxrIF8AK04A9IW7cIjF9rRp_sqSgwpcOPDttDqvfgHtP/w300-h400/IMG_7135.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHj4QBCC8fo9E2uc9zmP31LBmq_FL7Dth8DUJ_FNHgveMLvt2-Hm7fv9C6esSZbck4648b8byirp20GZJxHlbzZ_2y8EbV0Qh7nJyYD-ciuQUnwPxgGJiVb1K-kv7-vflokNJPr8Hyw8RJiA6IUzC_umnPbflmQFnnFivQobtgAb-kgkObTKs6i92JnNM/s4032/IMG_7136.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHj4QBCC8fo9E2uc9zmP31LBmq_FL7Dth8DUJ_FNHgveMLvt2-Hm7fv9C6esSZbck4648b8byirp20GZJxHlbzZ_2y8EbV0Qh7nJyYD-ciuQUnwPxgGJiVb1K-kv7-vflokNJPr8Hyw8RJiA6IUzC_umnPbflmQFnnFivQobtgAb-kgkObTKs6i92JnNM/w400-h300/IMG_7136.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNcBfb-q2vIy8FGe2qM92EMmE8MeUydLQSy8L5I-i_lLRp7cJcnS1G5XqbUcK1TTh5nOZbmCQ509R0DA7ImY-eOQoKS7nb_bTZvK58qtxaVY9j3rWqHXSAwANXVFuTq3BQjhI5aTlySrTM1rlUsmWoiDbY3acFyyVW8kiTWC1MI3fpsFq4WBkb_NL4f5p/s4032/IMG_7140.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwNcBfb-q2vIy8FGe2qM92EMmE8MeUydLQSy8L5I-i_lLRp7cJcnS1G5XqbUcK1TTh5nOZbmCQ509R0DA7ImY-eOQoKS7nb_bTZvK58qtxaVY9j3rWqHXSAwANXVFuTq3BQjhI5aTlySrTM1rlUsmWoiDbY3acFyyVW8kiTWC1MI3fpsFq4WBkb_NL4f5p/w300-h400/IMG_7140.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyKZdV3THd0o9Z9JxiV05D6s-gB-0ScMVXv6Q1T8N9tKUZRSZjfja246HCzbnphWBfTzJgjQK4BayhsdBNTaUs9AoNk15ZRbPzkfe7BFoh4eL-QRqaPsMa3zTsRfKOiT-a1NJilQh8WwknW9NyrJTalYwCkAyc3fWAxMf0t-EtVLgN5KTMQAp-R8dKklq/s4032/IMG_7172.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxyKZdV3THd0o9Z9JxiV05D6s-gB-0ScMVXv6Q1T8N9tKUZRSZjfja246HCzbnphWBfTzJgjQK4BayhsdBNTaUs9AoNk15ZRbPzkfe7BFoh4eL-QRqaPsMa3zTsRfKOiT-a1NJilQh8WwknW9NyrJTalYwCkAyc3fWAxMf0t-EtVLgN5KTMQAp-R8dKklq/w400-h300/IMG_7172.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4wfTySQR6TLgGu6yxeSxlQUSuXqSAS6kJpLqMRvX1fK186Zd_egnpJBk6NIjaCxpjUvVo-LzR-FmTFbiz82jNl_4cUnFTIlJV3KEIcxaHz5AUWMxDLuK8nDPs22Dws86b_yPMC9xi0bbO5uUwt8smAJyAXEb_cI-9uYeD_rv1h5WVeoEPcP0iINzKI1D/s4032/IMG_7181.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ4wfTySQR6TLgGu6yxeSxlQUSuXqSAS6kJpLqMRvX1fK186Zd_egnpJBk6NIjaCxpjUvVo-LzR-FmTFbiz82jNl_4cUnFTIlJV3KEIcxaHz5AUWMxDLuK8nDPs22Dws86b_yPMC9xi0bbO5uUwt8smAJyAXEb_cI-9uYeD_rv1h5WVeoEPcP0iINzKI1D/w400-h300/IMG_7181.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>4th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This Saturday was intense. We made a day trip to Potsdam to visit Sanssouci Palace. The trip was hell (thank you, crumbling public transportation infrastructure), but the Baroque palace, the fall foliage and the autumn light in the park, and the Georgian meal we had for dinner made up for all the trouble. I wrote a whole blog post about this, though.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, us being us, no Saturday would be complete with a simple day trip to another town. No, at night we had a party, at the Heile Welt bar – the 5th-anniversary celebration of Keshet, the queer Jewish community I'm a member of! It was wonderful seeing friends there, drinking, eating delicious babka and rainbow-coloured challah, sharing stories in a safe space... It's ridiculous how important Jewish-safe spaces have become! And it's so healing sharing stories that reveal how so many of us are going through similar things, like seeing too many of our leftist friends flood our Instagram stories with pro-Palestinian bits that sadly often verge on the antisemitic... Weird way to connect, but that's the world we live in, right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But overall, it was a fun and happy celebration. So happy to have come upon this bunch of people.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But that's not all I was doing, of course. The habibi did head home. But a bud of mine had told me about a party called Lunchbox Candy, at a place called Aeden. I was very lucky to have got a special ticket through him, that gave me access to a special queue, because at the time I arrived (about 1:45am) the general public queue was immense! Of course, the current conflict still had to make an appearance, because I received a message from a friend I hadn't seen in a while, and I started recording a voice message for him. We happened to be in Israel at the same time, without knowing it. And I found myself self-censoring the words Israel and Jew (using convoluted expressions like "the country I can't mention, because I have people around me" and "the group of people you and me belong to") when recording the message, just because I didn't want to get myself into trouble... Funnily (is it funny, though?) he replied he had been doing the same when around people who could overhear him...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyhow, back to the line. The bouncer was interviewing people about the party before letting them in! Like, asking the name of the party, what it was about, what similar parties we had been to... I actually saw him tell some people they couldn't get in! After waiting for so long! Luckily, I was no stranger to this, and I passed the interview easily and soon got in... to face the cloakroom queue. Oh well, Berlin's like that, right?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Soon I was inside with my bud, enjoying excellent music, fun performances (we had a half-naked woman playing the electric guitar get carried across the room on the crowds' hands), a play area (playfully called Love Room, hidden behind a red curtain), sexy people... This felt awesome, as usual. And it's funny how my bud and me have found this interesting weird party chemistry that – at least in my case – makes the partying feel more relaxed, more fun, and allows me to abandon myself a bit more freely? Also, of course, the fact that no photography is allowed (also, very Berlin) allows for a much more present state of mind. I was heading back home at around 7:15am. Feeling really good. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oh, by the way, part of the proceeds of the party were destined for aid to Gaza. The organizers assured the public on their Instagram page that they had done due diligence to ensure the money wouldn't go to Hamas. And so, I even got to make a tiny contribution towards a good cause, even if the whole thing meant I didn't feel safe to use the words Israel or Jew when leaving a voice message to a friend while standing in line outside. But hey, the world is in a fucked up state right now, that was of minimal discomfort for me, the money is needed over there, and I did have an amazing time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6O7XbHxe5kg3ptdg6bFSPWZzNxMY11m0nEVtGWh1ewkFzlBAsdNg2mwKVcJRc4ewRlNe10p8HjoVYnBPrj20MqQmHLXFo0Bgnv9shjlmPhyug94YcQefqPgFvyN6SNZoprAADvmM5kJeH556hwzg2JwZlNE4rqP06zsqkF2H8RNGIlNaqS-l8K9UNa2q/s4032/IMG_7233.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6O7XbHxe5kg3ptdg6bFSPWZzNxMY11m0nEVtGWh1ewkFzlBAsdNg2mwKVcJRc4ewRlNe10p8HjoVYnBPrj20MqQmHLXFo0Bgnv9shjlmPhyug94YcQefqPgFvyN6SNZoprAADvmM5kJeH556hwzg2JwZlNE4rqP06zsqkF2H8RNGIlNaqS-l8K9UNa2q/w400-h300/IMG_7233.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojUSt8bmd64qUfjNSxNixae2A6WgIz6BQRKOLxatt9F6W-yNHAWnhogCboS4Yymw0vGNMfw9y_DwPR3nki7nTBvmCpMiiV2S596M7FzCK-s1ydhvl-ohEpAGsJhXf-wT68cRfnC0pF9yFNnFe_Gx0Xgkuwe1L1LeEPtQo_XMdBIumKHoTBUcWfqX7lB3N/s1540/IMG_7241.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1540" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojUSt8bmd64qUfjNSxNixae2A6WgIz6BQRKOLxatt9F6W-yNHAWnhogCboS4Yymw0vGNMfw9y_DwPR3nki7nTBvmCpMiiV2S596M7FzCK-s1ydhvl-ohEpAGsJhXf-wT68cRfnC0pF9yFNnFe_Gx0Xgkuwe1L1LeEPtQo_XMdBIumKHoTBUcWfqX7lB3N/w323-h400/IMG_7241.jpeg" width="323" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>5th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was an amazing Sunday, that started with a very good brunch at a place called Das Gretel. We did have to wait a bit too much, but the taste was worth it! But, to be honest, the best was yet to come, because from there we headed to Hamburger Bahnhof, a museum of contemporary art. Luckily, our walk there gave us more glimpses of stunning, amazing autumn colours by Invalidenpark.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But back to the highlight. We went to Hamburger Banhof because we wanted to renew our museum cards, and there was a retrospective of Korean artist Lee Ufan, who I absolutely love. So it was perfect! Except I didn't realize this was Museums Sunday, which meant museums are free... and queues are too long! Obvi, Lee Ufan's exhibition was no exception.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had sort of resigned myself to not seeing it and having to wait for another day (I felt very disappointed at this prospect, though), and we went to see an exhibition in the main hall, and with zero queues: Eva Fàbregas's "Devouring Lovers", an intervention of the whole main area with pulsating, vibrating, organic-like, gigantic, sensuous sculptures. I loved it. Though the habibi seems to have found it a bit disturbing, kind of like viral-like, I saw it more as coral-like in an alien kind of way, especially because of the colours. However you looked at it, it was impressive, and the afternoon colour of the windows at the end of the hall was a gorgeous background. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But when we were going to leave, we realized the queue for Lee Ufan didn't seem as long anymore, and we jumped in! I was elated! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I saw Lee Ufan's (이우환, 李禹煥) work for the first time at the He Art Museum (和美術館), in Fatshan (佛山, Foshan), and I loved it. It was a single piece, in a dedicated space for it, and I was truly impressed. The second time was in Hamburg's Kunsthalle, where I saw some different pieces, which only made me fall deeper in love with his art. Understandably, I was just too excited about this retrospective. And it was simply amazing.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">His minimalism (his repeating brush strokes are sublime), the tensions he presents between materials and shapes that approximate each other or touch slightly (using rocks, glass and metal sheets), his use of colour (I'm absolutely enthralled by his shades of blue, yellow and orange)... What can I say, everything I saw, I loved. What an amazing artist. How lucky to get to see so much of his work in a single place. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We were a bit tired (hell, with my partying, I was very tired!), so we went back home. Though not before I got one final treat to finish a good day - a durian popsicle from the Asian market by our place! 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The wind has made a lot of leaves fall, and many of the scenes I used to enjoy are no more, but now the ground is covered in leaves and that's sublime! Also, it's rained quite a bit, and there are puddles that, with the little sunlight there is, create beautiful mirrors of the surrounding nature... I'm so happy when I'm surrounded by this...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS5Dv5XCWFbe8gaDpInALQk5XoCNoN7KVxODlUKYnwotNK0hfVUuJn7zVf5UQMPUoo6zmF6D5F3ogWjCoPPi36BMA3IARX8DGy4T9n-erYJjWyCIN6Qvs3R0pJQGZHkhx4qzzt9_SXgiriIFokyu-dCV2MiexERKf3EmtUZ4gfgRuurgvPUe1HlXTU0GT/s4032/IMG_7351.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMS5Dv5XCWFbe8gaDpInALQk5XoCNoN7KVxODlUKYnwotNK0hfVUuJn7zVf5UQMPUoo6zmF6D5F3ogWjCoPPi36BMA3IARX8DGy4T9n-erYJjWyCIN6Qvs3R0pJQGZHkhx4qzzt9_SXgiriIFokyu-dCV2MiexERKf3EmtUZ4gfgRuurgvPUe1HlXTU0GT/w300-h400/IMG_7351.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5sUECCGpNmKVB8W0rLpHUq8hGj1izfyXmwiI9nAlDMgBch2Qfowqktua2-k6jKZvNdMhRP7lhq5eiJcltJZncVD7XuFPVEQSAWopwNL5BRRavXHeXopJZgjmGUHkX1U2Y2UhcbR0FvkXN-w6SIFnj64T_WB6dAZi1xhTbXXR2cMw3tZ7E7USXj9-1azSP/s4032/IMG_7354.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgpHeON_2bUljpzc3kcCdX4htlBofSpL-qtEIkGOuwsNyeuXKPzZUVbGYZSAJV_d12UPhhW2GTvvsS-VoCI4ytwTuNnglF_CzUW-0HjXZeigr9GZqKczVoLIesppb4xc112_XZuP5ASoLjhG1UD8CiKCf62jJuGYSrRYjbJu_Evr5idHg42vYpfs2PZ2c0/w300-h400/IMG_7381.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>7th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I had such a dark dream. It was a month after Hamas's terrorist attacks (and it is, in fact, a month today), and I was at work, and also exploring some mall or something like that. I had a constant feeling of, well, feelings bubbling up and wanting to cry. But I was reining it in. In the mall, some queer people took me and the habibi aside and to another section, there was going to be an event or something. One of them was looking at me, and asked "Are you a Jew?". I felt afraid. I don't remember much more.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, lunch offered more opportunities to feel good, by watching the ever-changing Tiergarten under the beautiful forces of fall... The colours, the water, the light... I can spend hours enjoying this...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But that night there was going to be a memorial ceremony for the victims of Hamas's terrorist attacks of October 7th... It was going to take place at Pariser Platz, by the Brandenburg Gate. A good couple of hours before the ceremony I was feeling stressed, almost ill. The memories of that day, plus the real fear that it could be dangerous to attend, or even to get close to the place, it was a weight I was starting to feel. But also, again, I had to tell myself I was not going to stop doing something out of fear. As well, I thought many people were probably feeling the same, and were going to decide not to go, so I felt a kind of responsibility to show up for those that felt too vulnerable to do so. And so I made up my mind.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We were a small group, not even four hundred people. There were speeches, mostly by representatives of Jewish communities and organisations. A rabbi led prayers for the wounded and the hostages, and said kaddish for those killed. That was a very moving and sad moment, with candles on the ground (spelling the date of the attack and in the shape of a Star of David) flickering under the wind and a drizzle that started falling at that moment. But it was the beginning of the ceremony that was shattering - they played the sound the sirens made that morning in Israel, and three calls from desperate Israelis to the police. It was absolutely heart-wrenching.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">There was music, including two moving songs performed by Lars Umanski, one of them in Yiddish (Shpil mir a tangele, or Play a little tango for me). That made me cry. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">That we were so few present (barely 400, compared with thousands for pro-Palestinian marches), that we had to acknowledge that antisemitism was raising its head again, that it felt like we were alone in this, that was hard to acknowledge. There was mention of the Palestinian plight and the deaths of civilians. It's such a horror we're all living in at the moment. I know this was just a commemoration ceremony, that there was nothing to solve, but it feels all so... hopeless... Interestingly, many Iranians joined, with flags from before the Islamic Republic, of course.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWfCzkPoUeDTL8lWv1q7OSslgCk-iW_LG-7ZbkMRD28Vavjgm73Z7b3OFfb6AxSYXKl_iUb1FY69Dz3DpIyZvFJdcVPbrHnbHe5yp1cEyioSt72gz3zGBeSixPaTBOkU66WxDQAWqXSKWpplsXY6Y9vlG1zV6N8Bq4d6oNYHpH4aMMSTqHKR8abiI7iaF/s4032/IMG_7399.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWfCzkPoUeDTL8lWv1q7OSslgCk-iW_LG-7ZbkMRD28Vavjgm73Z7b3OFfb6AxSYXKl_iUb1FY69Dz3DpIyZvFJdcVPbrHnbHe5yp1cEyioSt72gz3zGBeSixPaTBOkU66WxDQAWqXSKWpplsXY6Y9vlG1zV6N8Bq4d6oNYHpH4aMMSTqHKR8abiI7iaF/w400-h300/IMG_7399.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-eYxfWWFT7TSfT46rUJUx4CE3RniYcga6_2RARPhHjTMA_qKdru3yQb033KYX1UdH75WyarM3jFy-HTfDzyPGkFHuVF4e-v25vMcyGzqTooCCi0OZ5T5NwIqZ7SL8vIJRscSQomHWoQGymzfYRMp4Lb0zslzfjjPW8rT60HP5ruacalgL2SZMtKxsqci/s4032/IMG_7412.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-eYxfWWFT7TSfT46rUJUx4CE3RniYcga6_2RARPhHjTMA_qKdru3yQb033KYX1UdH75WyarM3jFy-HTfDzyPGkFHuVF4e-v25vMcyGzqTooCCi0OZ5T5NwIqZ7SL8vIJRscSQomHWoQGymzfYRMp4Lb0zslzfjjPW8rT60HP5ruacalgL2SZMtKxsqci/w400-h300/IMG_7412.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSbkfpedDnqqRcl-jO8D1keQic3wt1buzmVndeXoImxcUr1-XHmeZi7Wz7iYGNPHOcZ_USATrPudXuvKRv0bnVJlY4OeA5m0Afns9ynjGJJk6KT88OHS084YXxnn87ylb2c87hsqVGZJA88OtaYqiXS0HRhhG7My0_tolqMXXu85SOAyMDK1w1jRpPLfV/s4032/IMG_7421.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMSbkfpedDnqqRcl-jO8D1keQic3wt1buzmVndeXoImxcUr1-XHmeZi7Wz7iYGNPHOcZ_USATrPudXuvKRv0bnVJlY4OeA5m0Afns9ynjGJJk6KT88OHS084YXxnn87ylb2c87hsqVGZJA88OtaYqiXS0HRhhG7My0_tolqMXXu85SOAyMDK1w1jRpPLfV/w400-h300/IMG_7421.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQycQcmaW5P2oC1iuX3rPRqUTU9542c0k159qD82XitryOvieLCWaWcb821HIiiOq4dgN0RKjHQRjqGxr7YusWmBJLAWKTeBzm54OO2u7QI5JnLw4cjst5wT1RGUpt3hIAMT0RkTa6W5-Ki84EKjqpBqoJUl-NDfMHvmXyR2eHD8JS5gpliUzuxyYp02va/s4032/IMG_7422.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQycQcmaW5P2oC1iuX3rPRqUTU9542c0k159qD82XitryOvieLCWaWcb821HIiiOq4dgN0RKjHQRjqGxr7YusWmBJLAWKTeBzm54OO2u7QI5JnLw4cjst5wT1RGUpt3hIAMT0RkTa6W5-Ki84EKjqpBqoJUl-NDfMHvmXyR2eHD8JS5gpliUzuxyYp02va/w300-h400/IMG_7422.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>9th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was the anniversary of the November Progroms of 1938, known in their sanitized and romantic form as Kristallnacht, or Night of the Broken Glass. Of course, it was more than broken glass that happened. It was, like the current name implies, a real pogrom, carried out by the state with the support of the local non-Jewish population, and it destroyed property, killed people, and put thousands of Jews in jail. I walked to the holocaust memorial, recorded a video, and posted this:</p><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">kristallnacht? weasel words<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">november. pogroms. of 1938</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">well over 200 massacres,<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">expulsions,<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">mob attacks<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and only from "common era" until the holocaust?<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and are we really counting the holocaust as a single incident?</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">and we're not including all the pogroms since 1945?<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">in Syria, Morocco, Iraq, Libya…</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">antisemitism is a constant<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">it never went away<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">it’s just that today<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">it’s staring you in the face</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">but something else is also a constant<br /></span><span data-tt="{"paragraphStyle":{"alignment":4,"writingDirection":1}}" style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">we ain’t going <br /></span><span style="text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;">anywhere </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At night, the habibi and me had a conversation. As an artist, he moves in circles both leftist and alternative and, sadly, antisemitism is also a common theme. He's shared stuff related to fighting antisemitism and about Jewishness before, and he had to think hard about whether that could hurt what he does and his prospects. I told him I would understand if he stopped posting those things, but he said this - "I am not doing this for you, I'm doing it because it's things I believe in; I'm an independent artist, and I am free to support what I believe in." Wow, what a mentsh, right? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDDGl2e8aDhlwfPpRYM2oI0RdVJu_jELPTkp4-LyLPHNa-fT97P71xykih0LZEqRPZQ3awT2guRHC-V7H-jKSu6ftfMQL938c3E4Q3A0fjyrNqwHIFkzgxDAu7w8oOUBfWarLAGSo125-UvKgO6i6KzEpLUyvmQZr9HafP2PvaQcE_Bcixz6ALu2yc0Nu/s4032/IMG_7436.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDDGl2e8aDhlwfPpRYM2oI0RdVJu_jELPTkp4-LyLPHNa-fT97P71xykih0LZEqRPZQ3awT2guRHC-V7H-jKSu6ftfMQL938c3E4Q3A0fjyrNqwHIFkzgxDAu7w8oOUBfWarLAGSo125-UvKgO6i6KzEpLUyvmQZr9HafP2PvaQcE_Bcixz6ALu2yc0Nu/w300-h400/IMG_7436.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>10th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a long workday, but at least I had one of those wonderful lunchtime Tiergarten walks – the sun was shining a bit, and the paths and the border of the water were covered in leaves... so beautiful.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And at night, after not celebrating Shabbat at home since before we left for Israel in September, we finally did it. It was better to wait, I think. It would have been too emotional to celebrate it earlier. We enjoyed wine, good bread, a nice dinner, and our arak from Israel. It was a good thing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHJh58RuTTfo3LiyO0zHpnWeeaCOhpyOqQ8_i44DUmoYJ8exEfVVoY8sHXY05nXpa8wx2_VXpQK9kpLrV7_H1bD9FIzNnAn0x91eHV2HTDynaYLcrM8TmvvTkMvOv7ozzKz0W7cVhaCgEablvaeFwVEktq53jVNpp5nf-twwxouBgHLO5WcX8MdhzfoB3/s4032/IMG_7441.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyHJh58RuTTfo3LiyO0zHpnWeeaCOhpyOqQ8_i44DUmoYJ8exEfVVoY8sHXY05nXpa8wx2_VXpQK9kpLrV7_H1bD9FIzNnAn0x91eHV2HTDynaYLcrM8TmvvTkMvOv7ozzKz0W7cVhaCgEablvaeFwVEktq53jVNpp5nf-twwxouBgHLO5WcX8MdhzfoB3/w400-h300/IMG_7441.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBYbRpY4RiCCtXodOefDm009WjZlQ19f_1Bushyphenhyphenaxx98ygRHWR3kogllvKBttS0G6pBwReSJJqLC-7hdomOtyc5MU6lX2kUVYGoFy2aM4ZKUP2sELBgdSwGypc2G6BZC-_VFraXXR_xv-dZ7_90IvFrUlbkjGj9kARbRDocEcFHOy2-cyAxkSF0MMwrHX/s4032/IMG_7448.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBYbRpY4RiCCtXodOefDm009WjZlQ19f_1Bushyphenhyphenaxx98ygRHWR3kogllvKBttS0G6pBwReSJJqLC-7hdomOtyc5MU6lX2kUVYGoFy2aM4ZKUP2sELBgdSwGypc2G6BZC-_VFraXXR_xv-dZ7_90IvFrUlbkjGj9kARbRDocEcFHOy2-cyAxkSF0MMwrHX/w400-h300/IMG_7448.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7deUX8OEK2N8onoaV6JPdYCFYU_xuf-7FLERR55txbgBYmcQNdCU_Lrfyb0SKZzaPdxDs1oOOyVZsJWI94vD_hgZHVOjq46mmOpCRUql0KP9k495ljDcGd88sGKct09j_RwZU9zvpnt6p9ImKbhnJYS7uC2xwVH-9VHKIZWR7bfbH3izcDxclUZNC2rBW/s4032/IMG_7456.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7deUX8OEK2N8onoaV6JPdYCFYU_xuf-7FLERR55txbgBYmcQNdCU_Lrfyb0SKZzaPdxDs1oOOyVZsJWI94vD_hgZHVOjq46mmOpCRUql0KP9k495ljDcGd88sGKct09j_RwZU9zvpnt6p9ImKbhnJYS7uC2xwVH-9VHKIZWR7bfbH3izcDxclUZNC2rBW/w300-h400/IMG_7456.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>11th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We saw a memorial to the victims and hostages of Israel, in front of the Oranienburger Synagogue...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CjhlVxwsvTJhZ_izEcTVhBhYHaGg1dn1KDtpQVLWNNouSAeiUCYgK-6UQrG8lvdvM7ydhKk53kHsu_QO2iihyW0Ze9MMYXZvIlOfTrrM7pWEcICBtVusAT_tCRelYOiSe2Zfqviuq4SSoxRvRkRjOEBiEQGChuBB1Y_RpKfEPPCQRTtCIxdVUC65RkbA/s4032/IMG_7466.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5CjhlVxwsvTJhZ_izEcTVhBhYHaGg1dn1KDtpQVLWNNouSAeiUCYgK-6UQrG8lvdvM7ydhKk53kHsu_QO2iihyW0Ze9MMYXZvIlOfTrrM7pWEcICBtVusAT_tCRelYOiSe2Zfqviuq4SSoxRvRkRjOEBiEQGChuBB1Y_RpKfEPPCQRTtCIxdVUC65RkbA/w400-h300/IMG_7466.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>12th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We finally visited the Berlinische Galerie, to see the "Munch – Magic of the North" exhibition. One would have thought we had seen plenty of Munch already, in Norway, right? But the habibi was really dying to see this. And I mean, Munch is very special, and this exhibition focused on his Berlin experience, so it was still interesting. I recognized many themes, and it seems we got to see many pieces that would have been in Oslo when we visited, except they were here in Berlin in preparation for this exhibition! What a roundabout way to see them right?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's understandable why people were so shocked the very first time they saw his paintings in Berlin. Everybody was expecting a nationalistic and romantic version of the North, and here was this guy expressing inner feelings and using colours and brushstrokes in unexpected ways.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the exhibition, we had hearty and cold-appropriate Uzbek fare at Taste of Samarkand, in Kotti, and then coffee, cheesecake, and nice German cider (slightly bitter, not sweet, called Outcider) at Luzia, also in Kotti. I like that place, the atmosphere is so relaxing. And I even read a bit of my Empires of Ideas book, about universities in Germany, the USA and China.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite my previous night's partying definitely not going according to plan (and I won't bother writing about that), at least today was a fine day. Sure, we still talk a lot about antisemitism, double standards and identity politics pushing people to be radically lefty as a show of identity, but these are the times we live in, hey?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJK-oHzZ685NSRqi3mvuH6wE6TXI2QhSk5fXmEsrG9RVqJwD7lT_GYDM3J19ECt3b2NSpHu5KoXmeltsVzQK_3VcYpoPj8CTuq8ZY04_BaGw4f1hH0vySY0FWDvrENfBIL735wXeqviSYOuV2LDxBc47NDTP-a0vpRfSVVTQCHlLmiE7fu6NFWbafKUtx/s2875/IMG_7476.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2875" data-original-width="2388" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJK-oHzZ685NSRqi3mvuH6wE6TXI2QhSk5fXmEsrG9RVqJwD7lT_GYDM3J19ECt3b2NSpHu5KoXmeltsVzQK_3VcYpoPj8CTuq8ZY04_BaGw4f1hH0vySY0FWDvrENfBIL735wXeqviSYOuV2LDxBc47NDTP-a0vpRfSVVTQCHlLmiE7fu6NFWbafKUtx/w333-h400/IMG_7476.jpeg" width="333" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc25BOiutB3GoU_FPzMIAbS9LJyjoykLPn35XygDxGBQDDx3sKpTB4RtrJJTGAwlhUcVlUdQqtPXd4vB61EFjG3nKFQqe5POrdceXiPhL1FwTRzQfzcHw79ytiRgt0DhvSniW6YDrZjo-DDA1eVH28TNZ6UhHQBCdBbcZD1RvLPjLMhs_y2bthtlHKe9AU/s3264/IMG_7481.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Yalla Hafla is a queer middle-eastern Arab-Jewish party that's been taking place in Berlin for 6 years, usually at a queer bar in Prenzlauer Berg called Tipsy Bear (actually, at Tipsy Bear I celebrated Rosh Hashanah with friends and with a special show called Jews! Jews! Jews!). Anyhow, so, this Monday it was Yalla Hafla's 6th anniversary. It should have been one incredible celebration party. But The Darvish, who's Syrian, and Judy LaDivina, who's Jewish Israeli, decided to hold instead an event to get together, provide a safe space for Jewish-Arab harmony, and give some hope.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I think most of us there left our homes with some fear about what we were getting into, and this includes The Darvish and Judy, as later they told me. The name of the event was سوا Together ביחד, and this clearly generated lots of hate online for them, given the circumstances. It was so brave of them - and so considerate - to still hold an event, and to forego their anniversary celebration and turn it into this wonderful night of understanding.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They did sing and perform, but just a bit. In the middle of it, they made a pause and invited the public - composed of Arabs, Jews, Israelis and others - to write questions on slips of paper, and drop them in a bucket, to be read later. The whole atmosphere was one of non-discrimination, non-judgement, and there were definitely no flags anywhere except queer ones. When they sat down to read, of course there were some messages of love and encouragement for what they do. But also there were moving questions, like if Jews could ever feel safe again in Berlin; if they thought there was hope for peace; how to deal with all the hate on social media; given our ordinariness as normal citizens far away from the conflict zone, if there was anything useful at all we could do (this was mine); what kind of future did they envision; even what kind of food would they serve to people to shut up and stop arguing!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Their answers were thoughtful, compassionate, true... They had very clear messages - we don't have to pick sides, it's actually a trap accepting you need to pick one over the other, as the only side is the human side, and people have been suffering at the hands of their failed leaderships. I felt so seen, as I've been arguing this since this shit began. While respecting religions and religious practices, they questioned whether it was defensible to use sacred books to wage war and take land. They reminded people it was ok to feel grief, and even not to be able to empathize with someone else while you process your grief, but that you should be ready to acknowledge others' suffering afterward. Tellingly, Judy shared that the first caring messages she received after the terror attacks were from her Palestinian friends, and the first hate ones she got were from what she says were white people who had never set foot in the region. They invited people to do their best, and to keep hope, even if they themselves weren't sure they'd see peace in the region within their lifetimes. And they talked about the need to look forward, to build, to stop the historical argument race; that it is true that you need to acknowledge what's happened, so that there can be justice, but with the aim to look forward, to find peace.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When it came to food, they imagined a simple but very relatable menu for those of us familiar with the region - pita bread with zaatar, fattoush salad (with bits of fried bread, as it should be), falafel that's literally just been taken out of the frying oil, labneh, knefeh as dessert. I'd say yes to that in a second! And when it came to their imagined future... they imagined organizing the first Gaza Pride, then taking it to Damascus, stopping in Tel Aviv, heading to Beirut... It was a fantasy, of course, but it was a moving one...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They finished with a performance about light coming after darkness. It was a beautiful, healing evening. I'm definitely going to make sure I go to their events when they happen. This space, this hope, this gathering... It was a wonderful reminder that there is another narrative.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdcf99Q2_O4ccTmUTYF7gmBnY1t5lxxxUXxTGJ6ldh1z22VZHu7XZ-y6sSdAS9MBEp1E4qRGs-d0uOCw-Z8Fu5t_49DuzAjevc3vqSuwsXZJEkjTxxwGXWSzJvz66F8ECLrPjUqTEGkWqsBAOed_kuLqMs8ZJ9QWTG_aGwlk6m8GHlcSpLOD5URL7PCdR/s4032/IMG_7520.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZdcf99Q2_O4ccTmUTYF7gmBnY1t5lxxxUXxTGJ6ldh1z22VZHu7XZ-y6sSdAS9MBEp1E4qRGs-d0uOCw-Z8Fu5t_49DuzAjevc3vqSuwsXZJEkjTxxwGXWSzJvz66F8ECLrPjUqTEGkWqsBAOed_kuLqMs8ZJ9QWTG_aGwlk6m8GHlcSpLOD5URL7PCdR/w400-h300/IMG_7520.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAs1uuEkh8c1Ou0y0eSmRBRcW0K-Pn07TyV8qEMSyjG87TmzO7eOw1NDmOvC6BqYYhZ_BAKtohc-KzdePfsjM5gJUuvWoTZFxMrnHPl00CwgzLqAP9rmDeHuw6thjIuduqBN7hQoe8gpVakzyH7aeWu6KmcyG0dilxM5WEmEEkdyBYlH27IX8KkVJijKK_/s4032/IMG_7525.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAs1uuEkh8c1Ou0y0eSmRBRcW0K-Pn07TyV8qEMSyjG87TmzO7eOw1NDmOvC6BqYYhZ_BAKtohc-KzdePfsjM5gJUuvWoTZFxMrnHPl00CwgzLqAP9rmDeHuw6thjIuduqBN7hQoe8gpVakzyH7aeWu6KmcyG0dilxM5WEmEEkdyBYlH27IX8KkVJijKK_/w400-h300/IMG_7525.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>16th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Habibi did a small private performance for kids, interpreting a story he wrote himself about the rabbit on the moon... This was also his mother's birthday (she passed away just last month). This was a mere unplanned coincidence, but it made the performance that more emotional for us...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the lakes and creeks in Tiergarten look so interesting. Some have so many leaves that have fallen on the water they create a sort of sensation like a glass table with a leaf pattern underneath... Others have a lot of emerald green algae covering them... Beautiful...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_ANmkHISw-1GwThoxXgQV9ujJ_kMxwwR4pGf23q9oUhdOzm4cVXiSunT7a-iC1bYmhe0nACJzglwSLCOT4FUeKvc8lf4cBkm558kwYxgb3-Jij4XlgkzU8Jr4dKX0tNjr5KIX9ywnwfy1Kl57zrETeM_63duNoNGtrLH3BBoNzDXRwHNdZRdQrVp9A2_/s4032/IMG_7585.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_ANmkHISw-1GwThoxXgQV9ujJ_kMxwwR4pGf23q9oUhdOzm4cVXiSunT7a-iC1bYmhe0nACJzglwSLCOT4FUeKvc8lf4cBkm558kwYxgb3-Jij4XlgkzU8Jr4dKX0tNjr5KIX9ywnwfy1Kl57zrETeM_63duNoNGtrLH3BBoNzDXRwHNdZRdQrVp9A2_/w400-h300/IMG_7585.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTmZ4GpVvNPujUNyMcc9An-Ag3PK2cW80kY11-iZoAPPXUg6OQQj5rcQLjDoDasPB5Ekl4AuBPo3mEzY_Fg5gjoCnLbIuDo322VTU4nkJ7OJkEi5OgAVyS6_Z5LxtqTBnemXJYFmQvO8CrMUpCKzz3xi-u4_lzKJryPGY2iPltotZWZhkmTmobU69EjUD/s4032/IMG_7575.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTmZ4GpVvNPujUNyMcc9An-Ag3PK2cW80kY11-iZoAPPXUg6OQQj5rcQLjDoDasPB5Ekl4AuBPo3mEzY_Fg5gjoCnLbIuDo322VTU4nkJ7OJkEi5OgAVyS6_Z5LxtqTBnemXJYFmQvO8CrMUpCKzz3xi-u4_lzKJryPGY2iPltotZWZhkmTmobU69EjUD/w400-h300/IMG_7575.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgks-NiMbvaREJ7zbha8W0rtWPPGMW7YBRQU-QqNHJmpA9htVRW6K02tPTNt-O_jfeXdZp38DcCbxvzBJk3Kb2bA1WBDYDTVjMdA3FgBHwKjedThtN0Heo6kE6BjyPHtzNKd_9-BCFKQa8h0KR2pPLueAs1IklWCKbODfI1Lgx4o1UDV4oWe78gO9DJR1YY/s4032/IMG_7595.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgks-NiMbvaREJ7zbha8W0rtWPPGMW7YBRQU-QqNHJmpA9htVRW6K02tPTNt-O_jfeXdZp38DcCbxvzBJk3Kb2bA1WBDYDTVjMdA3FgBHwKjedThtN0Heo6kE6BjyPHtzNKd_9-BCFKQa8h0KR2pPLueAs1IklWCKbODfI1Lgx4o1UDV4oWe78gO9DJR1YY/w400-h300/IMG_7595.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>18th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We visited Grunewald to see a Renaissance castle, see a Cranach exhibition, enjoy the forest, and have some delicious German food. It was a very interesting excursion, but I wrote about it separately, because it was a lot!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At night we had a birthday party. So fun to meet new people, speak with old friends, and just relax... Though I might have had one drink too many... Funny how this only happens to me at house parties, never when I go clubbing!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>19th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today there was a charity event at the Fraenkelufer Synagogue to gather funds for a facility that assists disabled people in Israel, near the border with Gaza. Though the centre escaped being directly attacked by the terrorists, staff and their families were killed, and so the centre now faces both a lack of staff and a heightened need for security. So, the synagogue organized this charity event for this facility, offering cake, books, art, wine, challah bread, coffee... as well as an explanation of the history of the synagogue: the main part, which could seat 2,000, was set on fire during the November 1938 pogrom; then it was used as a warehouse during the war, with the end result that it was destroyed. After the end of the war, a secondary building that was spared became the main synagogue building, and services started anew.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After this and a few words by Joe Chialo, minister of culture for Berlin, a concert followed, by the group Folkadu. A singer, Yael Gat, interpreted songs in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino, and played the trumpet and the shofar too! She was accompanied by Ira Shiran, on the accordion, and Doron Furman, on the oud. What an amazing concert. We were so happy. More afternoons like these, please! Oh, and there were some original photos by Robert Capa from that very first service after the end of WWII!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the event, we headed for a late lunch/early dinner at Goldadelux, an Israeli place selling a quintessentially Israeli sandwich – sabich! Brought to Israel by Iraqi Jews, it's a pita bread filled with slices of fried aubergine, hard-boiled egg, salad, tahini, and a spicy sauce like harissa. So yummy! And a very appropriate follow-up to the event, I think.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizTSXuB-1b8G7EeDNeiTPb2GfFeI8SD2rn4aZm-Zi1upD9zYUEiWRHZCLV4qTRNuOj5LvIvXsW9RBeOBS7G7avnzvDFG-moy1NHCxA8EDfuY63ghTZ_6kuc3wu5zBseBjqeVNuhBOKcya579brT2vH3SohQhhV5KLQoB_VAxY4VqJ-DF23NX1UF7Vby5IT/s4032/IMG_7716.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizTSXuB-1b8G7EeDNeiTPb2GfFeI8SD2rn4aZm-Zi1upD9zYUEiWRHZCLV4qTRNuOj5LvIvXsW9RBeOBS7G7avnzvDFG-moy1NHCxA8EDfuY63ghTZ_6kuc3wu5zBseBjqeVNuhBOKcya579brT2vH3SohQhhV5KLQoB_VAxY4VqJ-DF23NX1UF7Vby5IT/w400-h300/IMG_7716.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphenSyKRRSiHotYysNJzTJQ1SGYwXyaXYNEv7-CesTgIJWsHWIOAXHMYCqfkZOTBAhT4-JS62QYOJ7xkSzlqVwd08KJZtXS3aqnYyE3oABV43nvrCnVLa0XVE9w454xAQ1JJvH78Bj7RsZXn5n9ypwyt5LRaIB4MSerQEXx-_FHNw_khuf9whXRpUrgoTUJ/s1891/IMG_7726.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1891" data-original-width="1891" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyphenhyphenSyKRRSiHotYysNJzTJQ1SGYwXyaXYNEv7-CesTgIJWsHWIOAXHMYCqfkZOTBAhT4-JS62QYOJ7xkSzlqVwd08KJZtXS3aqnYyE3oABV43nvrCnVLa0XVE9w454xAQ1JJvH78Bj7RsZXn5n9ypwyt5LRaIB4MSerQEXx-_FHNw_khuf9whXRpUrgoTUJ/w400-h400/IMG_7726.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg428jts7HeRpcfswb1v-JEAUq8W7-0-_DztQ1AsoxQ98hY7V8HWs4GYtgy1iCddbWFZQhx15SKjqzbO-MAAokk8h9aFdm2Cmdj6Q4J37BRo3ThaWqpuhA4zrFPR8vVjPCbD94NjodPK9PrUpBC2-M8U1hyrc0cHi32C0YuwKDeXbdAfwX7nixOLNpAOf8J/s4032/IMG_7729.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg428jts7HeRpcfswb1v-JEAUq8W7-0-_DztQ1AsoxQ98hY7V8HWs4GYtgy1iCddbWFZQhx15SKjqzbO-MAAokk8h9aFdm2Cmdj6Q4J37BRo3ThaWqpuhA4zrFPR8vVjPCbD94NjodPK9PrUpBC2-M8U1hyrc0cHi32C0YuwKDeXbdAfwX7nixOLNpAOf8J/w400-h300/IMG_7729.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHyJaTaHfkz-1ZH4eFfhNZ_cwXVxU8TSLeLl8ayMrSXNd-vlAdZPXc8prpwQ1_IfaKZujvN0yjswuZArHt3TLohyphenhyphen9-Dt4KQtjHlfIdFLeG97zW7GzLhg9fscPP0PHoRpr6bbA4FR4j9671fCv9NNqvudhMswvEKp0ZBVrOrspr38MOKp7xcpEni3VnO0O/s4032/IMG_7730.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHyJaTaHfkz-1ZH4eFfhNZ_cwXVxU8TSLeLl8ayMrSXNd-vlAdZPXc8prpwQ1_IfaKZujvN0yjswuZArHt3TLohyphenhyphen9-Dt4KQtjHlfIdFLeG97zW7GzLhg9fscPP0PHoRpr6bbA4FR4j9671fCv9NNqvudhMswvEKp0ZBVrOrspr38MOKp7xcpEni3VnO0O/w400-h300/IMG_7730.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>20th and 21st</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday and today I decided to walk around a part of Tiergarten I hadn't paid much attention to, the one behind Café am Neuen See, to the northwest of Rosa-Luxemburg-Steg. It's been so nice! So many trees have turned yellow or orange, and it's been a nice change of scenery. I even came across a log painted blue, which was a beautiful contrast to the fall colours around it, and also a crane that flew straight towards me and stelled on this super picturesque corner on a log and with orange leaves around... Glad to still be discovering the wonders of this park...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYI4WNwf_5NNWqOSEuKlYk0VvRM-Ft4Wy4HehO9Rqkr3_Iuk9v6cmyGNRRvUDftPbMcIyyAtKB4b9prjQKBYXRT8I11gSe0kQUnMSpF98SihuiyKPJ8lx2YjuuDOlSSLGNgXIYKR380CTN489Y_3OiRGgThaFzkMOE68hpD5xvMSVbUpijYpeNxY0V4Bs6/s4032/IMG_7741.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYI4WNwf_5NNWqOSEuKlYk0VvRM-Ft4Wy4HehO9Rqkr3_Iuk9v6cmyGNRRvUDftPbMcIyyAtKB4b9prjQKBYXRT8I11gSe0kQUnMSpF98SihuiyKPJ8lx2YjuuDOlSSLGNgXIYKR380CTN489Y_3OiRGgThaFzkMOE68hpD5xvMSVbUpijYpeNxY0V4Bs6/w400-h300/IMG_7741.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwOTrLftcsAnp-VU9nTNu70JMwCt0aTf39M-SME1zzf-RTLlmitaDgB93uVSwX7JECxYwYaNc93TuDNKodVNIBRJb0jfOVfxBrSkB03qe2HVfvnrRgbE9hiKeOlUcLSAMYIUufrrTJ79VngGtyPRhJvbSD8Y9wJBfy-19YUILtgCNYFGVZLxbfnqlmEFK/s4032/IMG_7752.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwOTrLftcsAnp-VU9nTNu70JMwCt0aTf39M-SME1zzf-RTLlmitaDgB93uVSwX7JECxYwYaNc93TuDNKodVNIBRJb0jfOVfxBrSkB03qe2HVfvnrRgbE9hiKeOlUcLSAMYIUufrrTJ79VngGtyPRhJvbSD8Y9wJBfy-19YUILtgCNYFGVZLxbfnqlmEFK/w400-h300/IMG_7752.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxGDHCIgtxLxpLaCPX0KHMI7slfqyc-auQT_RLW1oz2NQAcxP7vOUj9aTP_hz60qdkWtniYKEK7fp_YdvDTM4DteQl7fBOpNkqw8qBPBZL9M4qs7cq5w-42vmReHL10W94R-79_SQiclQ8B6zkdR44bPxXHLLiz-BI-yDeBmnXpG3k2bGjNZuGjOlMyYi/s4032/IMG_7755.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxGDHCIgtxLxpLaCPX0KHMI7slfqyc-auQT_RLW1oz2NQAcxP7vOUj9aTP_hz60qdkWtniYKEK7fp_YdvDTM4DteQl7fBOpNkqw8qBPBZL9M4qs7cq5w-42vmReHL10W94R-79_SQiclQ8B6zkdR44bPxXHLLiz-BI-yDeBmnXpG3k2bGjNZuGjOlMyYi/w300-h400/IMG_7755.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXtCH8oSZQVNUd7VndTT_4s35B6RFWOeqLo2T8aXxWp1EPSwnk7VxZtURYRB2kuhqw7_dyANTlvokue88PtST6LwtsfWXDaXLG0-HJk-zKMVTF3cFnWgsRJosWx59zX8lXHT57u4ZVJnElrt1inU0_i0HyVn6zo7s7bc0Gm9HrLCZlNQexaKn6XdvhNqK/s4032/IMG_7760.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXtCH8oSZQVNUd7VndTT_4s35B6RFWOeqLo2T8aXxWp1EPSwnk7VxZtURYRB2kuhqw7_dyANTlvokue88PtST6LwtsfWXDaXLG0-HJk-zKMVTF3cFnWgsRJosWx59zX8lXHT57u4ZVJnElrt1inU0_i0HyVn6zo7s7bc0Gm9HrLCZlNQexaKn6XdvhNqK/w300-h400/IMG_7760.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAryvL4bpPZaN74rNuvZ9fTPlpajCIiHjohhUTtOt8_Tasoh0fjg0RXCt6-iakZH5yiFFnUW3jBlhg1La_bZP354MSNxLSweAOPR8o3cE0Mfx5GHclUnF3ZCrIJwnKNjyQx_WGMX2_mKhk6BY4QYLXCO2pCxI3SLRIcpkBQl5bjfMiw6yIRoQRvBkMQdR/s4032/IMG_7776.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAryvL4bpPZaN74rNuvZ9fTPlpajCIiHjohhUTtOt8_Tasoh0fjg0RXCt6-iakZH5yiFFnUW3jBlhg1La_bZP354MSNxLSweAOPR8o3cE0Mfx5GHclUnF3ZCrIJwnKNjyQx_WGMX2_mKhk6BY4QYLXCO2pCxI3SLRIcpkBQl5bjfMiw6yIRoQRvBkMQdR/w300-h400/IMG_7776.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>23rd</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tiergarten is becoming more and more winter-like, the trees are losing their leaves, remaining leaves are looking more and more brown... But there was this one tree that probably had most of its yellow leaves on, but lost them this morning with the strong wind, because all around the ground was either green grass or brownish leaves, except right underneath this tree with bare branches - it was bright yellow! It actually made it seem as if there were a spotlight just underneath the tree! Amazing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3kDZxQdodOiGQaEChct5cfAlQd0gCGFsnmqjjIm5LTFlVUoqARmtqD15e3ej4BUm_4Tt9ouR186IyMrdYmn4C3SR2FNUA8OSV8ve998_Tp-GTTgfubyiLfloWiUWy-hCWAlw0BCwMzUcFySVi1zlgbC2nlFYvjb19ALcME3PMObjMHkE_zXdHOdFkrVt/s4032/IMG_7788.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB3kDZxQdodOiGQaEChct5cfAlQd0gCGFsnmqjjIm5LTFlVUoqARmtqD15e3ej4BUm_4Tt9ouR186IyMrdYmn4C3SR2FNUA8OSV8ve998_Tp-GTTgfubyiLfloWiUWy-hCWAlw0BCwMzUcFySVi1zlgbC2nlFYvjb19ALcME3PMObjMHkE_zXdHOdFkrVt/w400-h300/IMG_7788.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6-xvvQWORWlsft2IvnwaWDilF1Tm6_sOumBgFXMrFNcNWMacH8W50pfly_Ot5gDR94OQugUNEYT2QZEbXYxhG9Pj0sbZL0sFCrLkTB24sy2JDtzaxSaSNsM38FAhH9WfXfHFiK_EVFg68OH9cRnpW-adG8fLwi7r0sO6dtNWi0If-ZgPGplvPSowKSTS/s4032/IMG_7790.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6-xvvQWORWlsft2IvnwaWDilF1Tm6_sOumBgFXMrFNcNWMacH8W50pfly_Ot5gDR94OQugUNEYT2QZEbXYxhG9Pj0sbZL0sFCrLkTB24sy2JDtzaxSaSNsM38FAhH9WfXfHFiK_EVFg68OH9cRnpW-adG8fLwi7r0sO6dtNWi0If-ZgPGplvPSowKSTS/w300-h400/IMG_7790.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>24th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I had a quick – and very pleasant – work trip to Hannover. I had no idea I could enjoy the city so much. And it is getting its own blog entry, of course.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But at night, back in Berlin, we had two friends over for Shabbat – a Jewish Brazilian friend, and her German girlfriend. So nice, it had been so long since we had guests for Shabbat! Plus, the habibi made wonderful challah! Yay to proper challah and to seeing friends for dinner!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzRL4XQa0QK554cAzST23SwZCHkT7rf2XN-0Sq_3e3MmyNuBKtr2-_PWiYicfH3bw4cyPQU9xdrwvNj7dxy2KnmQsbLmepZ3UcN6WKBz816wFqM2KL5rdgIO7lA5WXZT5PGrPUfcGMArBu4yDOxpB3mr7Rf4Qs_qGx0zvCVx35nXCbz_F_SNvAJsfeo5v/s2048/3abbc40d-4cc2-4477-9914-4d8a824f7310.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWzRL4XQa0QK554cAzST23SwZCHkT7rf2XN-0Sq_3e3MmyNuBKtr2-_PWiYicfH3bw4cyPQU9xdrwvNj7dxy2KnmQsbLmepZ3UcN6WKBz816wFqM2KL5rdgIO7lA5WXZT5PGrPUfcGMArBu4yDOxpB3mr7Rf4Qs_qGx0zvCVx35nXCbz_F_SNvAJsfeo5v/w300-h400/3abbc40d-4cc2-4477-9914-4d8a824f7310.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>26th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We visited Spandau, again! The habibi wanted to visit a collection of sort of displaced or homeless monuments at the Spandau Citadel (Spandauer Zitadelle), called Unveiled (Enthüllt). It consists of monuments from 1849 to 1986 that, because of political changes and upheavals, had to be removed. But first? Some nice bread from a local bakery, right? And nice views of the outside of the citadel!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWMJ9zLqyKjMnAHdqpGgonp64I-HKjMoBpLH8Lvgv5OuyHvzZhDNmhl4fAkNIPkkNdxwmSXLMvTbcv-FnT8wybALCE6vmXizl7AbjZyujkaRjsIHBf0WmMnODCgR-Gv1oxyAPyGbcw1HrcAUkpuElTqOZadvBfV09o4Ux4rkjrDWEtSh8-n0bLCLlMm6u/s4032/IMG_7954.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAWMJ9zLqyKjMnAHdqpGgonp64I-HKjMoBpLH8Lvgv5OuyHvzZhDNmhl4fAkNIPkkNdxwmSXLMvTbcv-FnT8wybALCE6vmXizl7AbjZyujkaRjsIHBf0WmMnODCgR-Gv1oxyAPyGbcw1HrcAUkpuElTqOZadvBfV09o4Ux4rkjrDWEtSh8-n0bLCLlMm6u/w300-h400/IMG_7954.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimslNVYY3qFFBQwPN2OcNLdyznWFhNn_WqxeZD64_u83rS4N-h1YuIQ-lCxIUSjoBzIq4qWhJZshWkj0DfSJ7wtwKtIwL2N-t2T_cDpFaoPrT_7wuj1WkH385goOkwN8ZNwf5FH5b_PhWPhuRp2m_cJWPEj-FxNXHfDznCLhwZQXw-7omTfEx1aU8sjrJn/s4032/IMG_7955.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimslNVYY3qFFBQwPN2OcNLdyznWFhNn_WqxeZD64_u83rS4N-h1YuIQ-lCxIUSjoBzIq4qWhJZshWkj0DfSJ7wtwKtIwL2N-t2T_cDpFaoPrT_7wuj1WkH385goOkwN8ZNwf5FH5b_PhWPhuRp2m_cJWPEj-FxNXHfDznCLhwZQXw-7omTfEx1aU8sjrJn/w400-h300/IMG_7955.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy2-vesWMM6CXOOgwRFHEl5HYzQZaTGB4E5kvRZlmbTzbVAkzwddkR6wb4wyXEZvi8ffh8p2aVSKOJGon4XopltrS__3ySTk15lyFFmrjlYZzCPEwJWBK21IabMOMWaSmDGQRIR4uIk9Lmt3hm4_OMenY_AeT0Vf29XouJD1S8RwQo4YZiO2CazIJx0jn/s4032/IMG_7956.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGy2-vesWMM6CXOOgwRFHEl5HYzQZaTGB4E5kvRZlmbTzbVAkzwddkR6wb4wyXEZvi8ffh8p2aVSKOJGon4XopltrS__3ySTk15lyFFmrjlYZzCPEwJWBK21IabMOMWaSmDGQRIR4uIk9Lmt3hm4_OMenY_AeT0Vf29XouJD1S8RwQo4YZiO2CazIJx0jn/w400-h300/IMG_7956.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div>So, walking the halls of the exhibition, you progress from a Prussian empire, through National Socialism (though, because of the regime itself, which focused more on architecture than monuments, and how it came to an end, there are precious few items here), up to Communism.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are so many statues that used to adorn the former Siegesallee, so many figures that were used to build Prussian mythology and a national story... There was one fascinating statue of a crouching man, from the Weimar Republic. As for the National Socialism section, there's a big slab that used to have a swastika and commemorated January 30th 1933, when Hitler was named chancellor of Germany, but the whole surface was scrubbed clean of symbols and images. There was also an insanely huge and muscular horse statue, and the statue of a decathlete by Arno Breker, whose art Hitler considered a perfect counterpoint to "degenerate art" and who became an official sculptor to the Nazis. </div><div><br /></div><div>From communist times, well, I mean, there was a monument to the creator of the KGB, and part of a monument to Lenin. 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It's a very peculiar building, indeed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55d2n_GjlUnzl0Piw7v8qYdeyHGbWQvYOBIOsPCs9Eo930IJRc9nqTfNg4iIVT9r8Eo-Soa2GkOUtk14M_3vvb1_o6ByJc-Rwz2PSrxbXdf4VH-pJO9QTE9bhkRY-NHjdox2Fg1FAwTJhiE4DETYR03olaUiy5UhdZuVc-yHGGHfLmwenHvN-ZkJais4g/s4032/IMG_7993.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj55d2n_GjlUnzl0Piw7v8qYdeyHGbWQvYOBIOsPCs9Eo930IJRc9nqTfNg4iIVT9r8Eo-Soa2GkOUtk14M_3vvb1_o6ByJc-Rwz2PSrxbXdf4VH-pJO9QTE9bhkRY-NHjdox2Fg1FAwTJhiE4DETYR03olaUiy5UhdZuVc-yHGGHfLmwenHvN-ZkJais4g/w400-h300/IMG_7993.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On our way back home, by the way, we boarded like U7, and we realized many of the stations were very colourfully designed. Later on, we read these stations are indeed special design-wise, especially this western end of the line. I guess we'll have to come back just to see the stations!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSzUitWZd3HeXX_GIlNoF3CQS5hGyDq26qTZZHt89lrZI4pLWtOtsMELP2zLVHuar8odv4s-mTRfTrvkOLo02KhA-PYQ1v0e5vLh7VaWYRcZVfnO6lDEqkvkQ8NRJAnMcyQ7pPe8-u2kMssMnmRbnSr7UH8Zp7LK8G_Opd0A6BeGKJ22xrQodpRecPZq2r/s4032/IMG_7994.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSzUitWZd3HeXX_GIlNoF3CQS5hGyDq26qTZZHt89lrZI4pLWtOtsMELP2zLVHuar8odv4s-mTRfTrvkOLo02KhA-PYQ1v0e5vLh7VaWYRcZVfnO6lDEqkvkQ8NRJAnMcyQ7pPe8-u2kMssMnmRbnSr7UH8Zp7LK8G_Opd0A6BeGKJ22xrQodpRecPZq2r/w400-h300/IMG_7994.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>28th and 29th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It snowed! Yay! It finally snowed! Not only that – there was a nice, thick layer of snow on the ground! On my morning walk to work the habibi came along with his camera. It was so nice! The leaves of many trees and bushes were facing downwards, weighed down by meticulously layered snow. Since it's the end of the fall, some trees still have orange or yellow leaves, which look gorgeous with the snow. And the water? Black, reflecting the cold and snowy world above. Amazing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But it just so happened that, around lunchtime, this first day, the sun came out! The skies had been overcast in the morning, so this was such a wonderful surprise! I rushed to walk all I could during my lunch hour, enjoying the fall foliage in combination with the white landscape, looking at the water, the blue skies, the rust-red pines... It was just so wonderful. Such a privilege to have a place like this at hand!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBYhQEVYj857xMu1FrkpGo6U_mB85090PXtQv8GvqamwVwW9mIRqD09pNhCSaUkzh4LzS5DYYyqxQKuVJuXShxlXfTy27rOD8un0XH2rRvJyspv5PqNbVShdPIVgmdvbRxzFxxcnXP7clompe4RdZfAcjZAvmw4qsqW97HuL0RmEA2WCbGefFxCHxr5Kr/s4032/IMG_8015.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYBYhQEVYj857xMu1FrkpGo6U_mB85090PXtQv8GvqamwVwW9mIRqD09pNhCSaUkzh4LzS5DYYyqxQKuVJuXShxlXfTy27rOD8un0XH2rRvJyspv5PqNbVShdPIVgmdvbRxzFxxcnXP7clompe4RdZfAcjZAvmw4qsqW97HuL0RmEA2WCbGefFxCHxr5Kr/w300-h400/IMG_8015.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcVsqg-PbCIPIP8iEYX68MAQxthNUB-GzBvdpC4lDYmBqCFT6ShpqH2_xCjIAapdfiUzm4Vvqarc7azkMIGmhJF2BXn2tohJ-rvqhZLXSxox3DxIG3fdWpnCGhGitEOU3F6W8c9haZnrbFR48opLI2oaOecpRhtWXKJ8SWNS5mCJP6PBB9We3DRMnqhZt/s4032/IMG_8024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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By now you must have realized that snow makes me happy. Oh so happy! And at night? It had snowed so much that all of Tiergarten was carpeted in white, and I could walk to the gym all through the park because of all the light the snow reflected! Plus, the lamps that a couple of paths do have look positively enchanting in the snow! Oh, so happy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOHc4raMc2_MEyDzbcXuWsBsFB8yP6F3aeDC0ieYbnL6eWH-PbCtd5xAOs5Wctd-fc3haRVCoQO-T8yEaUx6sTlRthQR_6CPohCgq_spTbiXjyqwnXLZWznG927UkyyaipZO65lGustsxejQ5LC0T_fGLMoEiSbRzEQqc439_BnsYthc6fheFar70_OOI/s4032/IMG_8102.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOHc4raMc2_MEyDzbcXuWsBsFB8yP6F3aeDC0ieYbnL6eWH-PbCtd5xAOs5Wctd-fc3haRVCoQO-T8yEaUx6sTlRthQR_6CPohCgq_spTbiXjyqwnXLZWznG927UkyyaipZO65lGustsxejQ5LC0T_fGLMoEiSbRzEQqc439_BnsYthc6fheFar70_OOI/w400-h300/IMG_8102.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXV0cOQ61HcLmWR95hHWmF68jVboyqCbFdOyVhqmO_jJapBoRJcD1hchLZl4yFwLVbYMLv6o1XhoriQ2oDt0J6ab9nBRFgpqwzyuBjYvkbEuo5_EStVMUAPBgYxUUFUb5ziGhVIJ9e_tchdcxkNw0yCRlBBSAitXj57RoRZJiotk7zN21-Rf_wSMUBNeMX/s4032/IMG_8107.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXV0cOQ61HcLmWR95hHWmF68jVboyqCbFdOyVhqmO_jJapBoRJcD1hchLZl4yFwLVbYMLv6o1XhoriQ2oDt0J6ab9nBRFgpqwzyuBjYvkbEuo5_EStVMUAPBgYxUUFUb5ziGhVIJ9e_tchdcxkNw0yCRlBBSAitXj57RoRZJiotk7zN21-Rf_wSMUBNeMX/w300-h400/IMG_8107.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>30th</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last day of the month offered me more snowy nocturnal views of Tiergarten... with reflections of the moon in the dark waters... sublime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKeQql2qDRciWyuFO_HLwTiQHCdMj-TMuGmfvWAxQRM3N293u6pGsBPVl6UADdA07-Td27Fnp_PxqZEp-EiF53Dgga9oIRsSoZnHguL9a-kDA8VVBDUkbqP3tMlYHf6JD8yfbqmMUo3haFHgAWuPPYzTCk6pWl0NmEBcm6I5QiUvptV-9APVqnk7Kt7zq/s4032/IMG_8155.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKeQql2qDRciWyuFO_HLwTiQHCdMj-TMuGmfvWAxQRM3N293u6pGsBPVl6UADdA07-Td27Fnp_PxqZEp-EiF53Dgga9oIRsSoZnHguL9a-kDA8VVBDUkbqP3tMlYHf6JD8yfbqmMUo3haFHgAWuPPYzTCk6pWl0NmEBcm6I5QiUvptV-9APVqnk7Kt7zq/w300-h400/IMG_8155.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-68737981010470190242023-11-27T01:32:00.002+08:002023-11-27T01:32:30.298+08:00Hannover – a surprisingly charming work-trip<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday I had to go to Hannover for a work trip. And, as usual, since I was already going to be there, I planned so that I could sneak a quick look at the city in the extra time I had. I wasn't really expecting much. I mean, nobody ever says "Oh, but you must visit Hannover if you go to Germany!". But at the end of the day I was convinced the city does deserve a more leisurely and non-work-related visit!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have, because Christmas. Like every other place in Germany, the city is gearing up for the festive season filling every possible street with Christmas markets. So, this time of the year is not the best to travel, because the markets are being set up, but they're not working yet, and even later is not such a good option – the markets will occupy beautiful medieval streets and squares and you won't have as free views as at other times of the year. But still, it was a cool visit. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">First, I came across a bunch of late 19th century features, like the famous Kröpcke Clock (Kröpcke Uhr), an entrance to a building with two massive figures on either side (one looking like a native American?), and lots of edifices with charming decorations separating the different floors and cute balconies... Really, I didn't expect any of this.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiev1A9o0gKXjWoMEgilq6C5BvUdSDgwBFRen-IZYRsxu3vu0iTCG3t4F01BUDdpY1pakZBadrPsKf1DVaEFPdiUyrumHkjAjaQ0qB9v2uk5IowusW8lONLxlnGyUbPUNeI2rRBuHWCz2uRlhYhU-KJ3cwrmwUEdtsGoidlI5btVkUrEYS66IprpqtNurgy/s4032/IMG_7811.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiev1A9o0gKXjWoMEgilq6C5BvUdSDgwBFRen-IZYRsxu3vu0iTCG3t4F01BUDdpY1pakZBadrPsKf1DVaEFPdiUyrumHkjAjaQ0qB9v2uk5IowusW8lONLxlnGyUbPUNeI2rRBuHWCz2uRlhYhU-KJ3cwrmwUEdtsGoidlI5btVkUrEYS66IprpqtNurgy/w300-h400/IMG_7811.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzCK-Ymp8Il54AukIJdvPJvYNrYEXEoBNaJZfuDxsbNxEl27CrsmCNa0i8a1cWir58h-bZslFXDLzHap6JDQS7dScmlJOAadqwbuMAFvtszpdo0SOkbboTp0Seng0g4J3nGA-4myM5YuHwWg531RLCmTXx1-a27VrrDwyQYzzDOGgYuD8VqIMLOZ2XTMq/s4032/IMG_7814.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzCK-Ymp8Il54AukIJdvPJvYNrYEXEoBNaJZfuDxsbNxEl27CrsmCNa0i8a1cWir58h-bZslFXDLzHap6JDQS7dScmlJOAadqwbuMAFvtszpdo0SOkbboTp0Seng0g4J3nGA-4myM5YuHwWg531RLCmTXx1-a27VrrDwyQYzzDOGgYuD8VqIMLOZ2XTMq/w400-h300/IMG_7814.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjm43ulDu0fK0SF0S2aIjWVckBqJxzF5jhHCRfQB2Wjs1UU6elpUtKI4uG8bRGIQhSm7ccJ7tDvv8RUtSJVkImsdg8rl-e_B7hqrjECZSawATZNUBYbOf5IVQP3pZLzX1Reu9R3GFh4XLZTRoSv8AaKUBu1OfgrgV9tBbHcn-x1ew5Be_29kgJodTBZw5/s4032/IMG_7818.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNjm43ulDu0fK0SF0S2aIjWVckBqJxzF5jhHCRfQB2Wjs1UU6elpUtKI4uG8bRGIQhSm7ccJ7tDvv8RUtSJVkImsdg8rl-e_B7hqrjECZSawATZNUBYbOf5IVQP3pZLzX1Reu9R3GFh4XLZTRoSv8AaKUBu1OfgrgV9tBbHcn-x1ew5Be_29kgJodTBZw5/w300-h400/IMG_7818.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4T3Mre_qXIrekfTS7Vt0VcGjiAoO70TkEShDOVyGn9VZzaYhgIrQNlzIvYp47y9qxCTOAlY4MNXHfH69FukwTT4xIj2PZNhszbbQKKapLhF0wdAhqtAEeK2wH690UWoYwt-_FR5kdFa0l2MHAVKLR0irbuh62-H0F7HUB8C0IqY4LbiVsKiw54hZK3TQ/s4032/IMG_7822.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE4T3Mre_qXIrekfTS7Vt0VcGjiAoO70TkEShDOVyGn9VZzaYhgIrQNlzIvYp47y9qxCTOAlY4MNXHfH69FukwTT4xIj2PZNhszbbQKKapLhF0wdAhqtAEeK2wH690UWoYwt-_FR5kdFa0l2MHAVKLR0irbuh62-H0F7HUB8C0IqY4LbiVsKiw54hZK3TQ/w400-h300/IMG_7822.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then, there was the 1342 Marktkirche, or Market Church. Not only is it brickwork, which I love, and set within a charming quarter. It also has something very peculiar at the top of the tower: on one side, a pentagram; on another side, a star of David. Although to be honest we should simply say a five-point and a six-point star, because they were probably used for magical or protective reasons unrelated to the devil and Judaism, right? The entrance to the church was practically impossible to photograph, because of a bushy tree right in front, but I did spot a very interesting representation of death on one of the sides.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Inside, the church had a 1480 altar, though you couldn't get too close to it. But the part of the church where it stands has some interesting paintings on the walls to the sides, which fit perfectly with the brick and the arches reaching upwards. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc-CXPEoOtHf7oIwtDsS4neipLOuvL4eO_qcMFuUwWSv5J0Ec0i-VScTRWlLUHkoC00zwqYrE9aQl9VJighYo-glMga3rugw7V0WEeWv6V_WWwBMac0wVeCIbSdGP5jlaV3IWh0BJpMrJy-Jh4nx07YUeEYZqLHQ_B9WCsgtvqRvClYSTAUQSBHmvneaE/s4032/IMG_7820.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSc-CXPEoOtHf7oIwtDsS4neipLOuvL4eO_qcMFuUwWSv5J0Ec0i-VScTRWlLUHkoC00zwqYrE9aQl9VJighYo-glMga3rugw7V0WEeWv6V_WWwBMac0wVeCIbSdGP5jlaV3IWh0BJpMrJy-Jh4nx07YUeEYZqLHQ_B9WCsgtvqRvClYSTAUQSBHmvneaE/w300-h400/IMG_7820.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3hfrQj3yFwFxaibKY0gC-Rv91_DSqcYwqfh1JytRaJpAYbltgJTbAdPG6nGzgOhXMHpdrjaGUkQha4BDx7Jq7vm5YCRDSJWgY2Ey-I_NlKw8vySsjt-rGfYZTQULeHuLhUpWM82KKEcvFt6Kk7iromZMe6Acpbvm6zmxjNHFUGWAhT4sClVUxiKMZLvU/s4032/IMG_7827.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3hfrQj3yFwFxaibKY0gC-Rv91_DSqcYwqfh1JytRaJpAYbltgJTbAdPG6nGzgOhXMHpdrjaGUkQha4BDx7Jq7vm5YCRDSJWgY2Ey-I_NlKw8vySsjt-rGfYZTQULeHuLhUpWM82KKEcvFt6Kk7iromZMe6Acpbvm6zmxjNHFUGWAhT4sClVUxiKMZLvU/w300-h400/IMG_7827.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMIzEQmvBXR7EqA6gcsJSY7F4qIuDp2x-XtIBQr8UCBnNPseFFWKa6xiFsuQL5ehOuz8bGj7U_7JKS0rh2DMDTs0jkBPzinws_Gvr0L3lPX8IAx6GlkqlVF9LAlUdjDuR6h9JJVDxbKTqMF27JvkH1LRY6GwReQsVHL0U5bmSW8nHmhsvXQ8HQ8lN339s/s3840/IMG_7829.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2880" data-original-width="3840" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMIzEQmvBXR7EqA6gcsJSY7F4qIuDp2x-XtIBQr8UCBnNPseFFWKa6xiFsuQL5ehOuz8bGj7U_7JKS0rh2DMDTs0jkBPzinws_Gvr0L3lPX8IAx6GlkqlVF9LAlUdjDuR6h9JJVDxbKTqMF27JvkH1LRY6GwReQsVHL0U5bmSW8nHmhsvXQ8HQ8lN339s/w400-h300/IMG_7829.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLExYt5u19GBw6ZnAINN4fTBbrEvmtc0_i_K1N4rSuTx0Hogc7n2bjs4gz__xrOJlxZR2QZG6Ek07uYc5UA_3Yf-KOc7RzvgauGkFvigNfqrqLt_OM5jjRM5Ft5ySKULIyUZmHUiLGzGzvQCF3XvAgHP3c1dxi80gHfYvp2JhHCo7MzMAEkoEI9aKBkQQT/s4032/IMG_7835.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLExYt5u19GBw6ZnAINN4fTBbrEvmtc0_i_K1N4rSuTx0Hogc7n2bjs4gz__xrOJlxZR2QZG6Ek07uYc5UA_3Yf-KOc7RzvgauGkFvigNfqrqLt_OM5jjRM5Ft5ySKULIyUZmHUiLGzGzvQCF3XvAgHP3c1dxi80gHfYvp2JhHCo7MzMAEkoEI9aKBkQQT/w300-h400/IMG_7835.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">From there, I walked to the area around the old city hall (Rathaus). That was amazing. The old Rathaus had these really pretty brick patterns and beautiful little turrets on the façcade, and the buildings nearby were also special, including a drugstore with a unicorn above the entrance, and a row of medieval half-timber houses. In fact, Hannover was badly damaged during the war, and the houses you see were surviving houses from different parts of the city that were brought to this area (the old city, or Altstadt) to give it a semblance of what it was before.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX6Oiuh09huVTBh3EbIO6tl5-tFP9cq6by1IUCspwYN6sMlSWTwdOqtR2gACz1us_iEIUaZlN3Z8MJ-DZAdqo4Ejmf7oTFR_qHE3Zbmca2RWWuJG00d1SiI5hjd-3lvOmRUSrhpeI6uIxXbl-Ax-BVml22m9heIEam5UnGi3PUn0hdw8RD3mUhS5zIC3jJ/s4032/IMG_7825.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX6Oiuh09huVTBh3EbIO6tl5-tFP9cq6by1IUCspwYN6sMlSWTwdOqtR2gACz1us_iEIUaZlN3Z8MJ-DZAdqo4Ejmf7oTFR_qHE3Zbmca2RWWuJG00d1SiI5hjd-3lvOmRUSrhpeI6uIxXbl-Ax-BVml22m9heIEam5UnGi3PUn0hdw8RD3mUhS5zIC3jJ/w400-h300/IMG_7825.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZIgV5BuDiEs6AVD-xSAsoOgPKaIdvVjnhwlUS-9-dlpZEE4xT_4YWeS6I5X7qoQcVtgqpeDCp7kMgGp1MO75sxapf09Ip15c1-UH_vbxPLi1lLY4kwE1RYGqrVr3DQLvrWBpFDoFLI2VwLjbbXuopb68e5iB275X9gkJpyz9nOJrjR0XxHX6nTE2Zo2hQ/s4032/IMG_7840.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The current shell is Gothic, but the grounds where it stands have been occupied by a church in one form or other from the early 12th century onwards! Like Berlin's Gedächtnisskirche, this one was left unrenovated as a memorial to the victims of WWII. It's an impressive space, and a good reminder of the destruction that folly and the thirst for power can bring to civilian populations...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAsQGi45LHYS7p1ZdcoxtEK_k3K3LeEW5IJpiBwNvtYsfuA_a8m_loxVCXPSLwTkTAdW-lPzARDa5tYGFDbiq1McjlBjMPYgTPRptNTc2EL8WQRsWr3GaUTZ0Y7vFX6CQhSgtu30FYr-1OHRZt6KmO37nzQpPbYBSuHyq2brGsv22QtxIRmrY6SVNPn__/s4032/IMG_7864.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCAsQGi45LHYS7p1ZdcoxtEK_k3K3LeEW5IJpiBwNvtYsfuA_a8m_loxVCXPSLwTkTAdW-lPzARDa5tYGFDbiq1McjlBjMPYgTPRptNTc2EL8WQRsWr3GaUTZ0Y7vFX6CQhSgtu30FYr-1OHRZt6KmO37nzQpPbYBSuHyq2brGsv22QtxIRmrY6SVNPn__/w400-h300/IMG_7864.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, you saw the old city hall, right? Well, the new one stands somewhere else, by a park called Maschpark. And it's simply stunning. The New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) is a massive, early 20th-century building in eclectic style. It's majestic, the inner hall has an incredibly high vault ceiling with sculptures, the staircases are a delight in how harmoniously they wind up... The place is a real pleasure to explore! There are also some models of the city at different times in its history, and there you can see the real destruction Hannover underwent during WWII. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4y0PyJwnpTdmGav-bqZZwhyphenhyphenQXxgYFGBfluSr934U-NJThQrqbxLtESvsFpyaQ3ggsc2B-DkpJzs_oHy3g2xG2KQyy4mmFSfM1ft7p42VoUlw6p2EcfRcEV9FszKlnog0kMtu2K0zhkIO95voGlrhHDI2GvtFvwwOX_1GvmQlSay5hKmcZQE37dw7CXF3/s4032/IMG_7866.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4y0PyJwnpTdmGav-bqZZwhyphenhyphenQXxgYFGBfluSr934U-NJThQrqbxLtESvsFpyaQ3ggsc2B-DkpJzs_oHy3g2xG2KQyy4mmFSfM1ft7p42VoUlw6p2EcfRcEV9FszKlnog0kMtu2K0zhkIO95voGlrhHDI2GvtFvwwOX_1GvmQlSay5hKmcZQE37dw7CXF3/w400-h300/IMG_7866.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mOuh9N_bttdMSWEcxsKHup6-3_g7aLIHMkCJBoOQcL-ksuGBTPcMTAiRqb06Fr39d0-fu1gM5qMcygGU2ejtg90SdMSifiD-7_FMGmCi0IEcB0AiG_HEaDrtJ_N-p8UN9ELypRDzYd6vzmZIDpkrdwS9jZ-msrYF5lFi9VnCaHjFu40Y-beuxvQ5kcq_/s4032/IMG_7870.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mOuh9N_bttdMSWEcxsKHup6-3_g7aLIHMkCJBoOQcL-ksuGBTPcMTAiRqb06Fr39d0-fu1gM5qMcygGU2ejtg90SdMSifiD-7_FMGmCi0IEcB0AiG_HEaDrtJ_N-p8UN9ELypRDzYd6vzmZIDpkrdwS9jZ-msrYF5lFi9VnCaHjFu40Y-beuxvQ5kcq_/w300-h400/IMG_7870.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoloNRu-1GHdyGKurNAA_0tlx6OzumMD28g2lsRTOk0YQ624fPInbN8nxznDNoyPVNy5KJVdYpsYe-1CSVC7dWEjcmnp0Tp-_6INn3xBPbmSPhBnZ1mGsQK_5kSPFmNyLKxcBGmkbQNYVLAjesFRizvGcQeKF2L959T4vBxMRhrqL52aVu_iygpNVE14-R/s4032/IMG_7871.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoloNRu-1GHdyGKurNAA_0tlx6OzumMD28g2lsRTOk0YQ624fPInbN8nxznDNoyPVNy5KJVdYpsYe-1CSVC7dWEjcmnp0Tp-_6INn3xBPbmSPhBnZ1mGsQK_5kSPFmNyLKxcBGmkbQNYVLAjesFRizvGcQeKF2L959T4vBxMRhrqL52aVu_iygpNVE14-R/w300-h400/IMG_7871.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7yTbORiv3bVBJ6-7dvwAiqauJy15JJhbI1BBztgiLq40bjPJoVhEW7yncPBqc7fBMxb-0HR5Jw85bQ0SJhkRWnYx4CpO5rZphHl6w84fgo8sqS8MmVDusUtBCr5xl3HqDjQ4Uk5T-XYnbGyJNRhzqMP3eIntniESQpVKgEe8dMWbEYsZH49OlOFuJO6fP/s4032/IMG_7874.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7yTbORiv3bVBJ6-7dvwAiqauJy15JJhbI1BBztgiLq40bjPJoVhEW7yncPBqc7fBMxb-0HR5Jw85bQ0SJhkRWnYx4CpO5rZphHl6w84fgo8sqS8MmVDusUtBCr5xl3HqDjQ4Uk5T-XYnbGyJNRhzqMP3eIntniESQpVKgEe8dMWbEYsZH49OlOFuJO6fP/w300-h400/IMG_7874.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRpLmmPcp93pz2FEIsviG4jpsjCCi_2LzwEDFBbpts7ohu_950d4mVwX-jcldSUtXvKxktsiGInHmVb1f1ioNtLvGKRGSEyNlN6pY926UNa-KOSy34rkFP7q_ZmrLWP0z0Yml8ZQDEpaeokGI-nbgA4seUyTQ3oItBBtw_8jnmXG3f4iunERxV9Peuqo4/s4032/IMG_7878.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRpLmmPcp93pz2FEIsviG4jpsjCCi_2LzwEDFBbpts7ohu_950d4mVwX-jcldSUtXvKxktsiGInHmVb1f1ioNtLvGKRGSEyNlN6pY926UNa-KOSy34rkFP7q_ZmrLWP0z0Yml8ZQDEpaeokGI-nbgA4seUyTQ3oItBBtw_8jnmXG3f4iunERxV9Peuqo4/w300-h400/IMG_7878.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, I even had a chance to visit the Sprengel Museum of modern art! And, since this was a Friday, entry was free! I didn't have much time, but I did manage to see an exhibition that explored, through ten rooms, different aspects artists may focus on, like colour, shape, texture, faces... So many important artists! Gerhard Richter, Alexander Calder, Hans Arp (I love Hans Arp, he's amazing, his pieces are so poetic... "Man seen by a flower"?!), Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Francis Bacon... Plus a few I really didn't know, like Niki de Saint Phalle (a French-American female sculptor and artist, with a beautiful and colourful sculpture called "Gwendolyn"), Kwang Young Chun (a Korean with a piece that was a complex accretion of blue paper-wrapped parcels arranged in crystal-like patterns), Shinkichi Tajiri (Ducth-American) and Arnold Leissler, to name a few.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02VC6TMY-1OkrT7PgaTAE5frMKELbFb7eHYK7RoJXja7h_qFDTyc0xohyphenhyphenjVAxO7EAQml-8lEKdyzpx1wW8bIt6IxQmbrsdJteD6vzMY1pgKgLSrgHqU30Oloa1CaPdU4lemniJSkcEk3H_X-5L-q0tCJQ3qWk68HkA_M9a6-Saiy7dRiroaBOi-EyzjWQ/s4032/IMG_7932.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg02VC6TMY-1OkrT7PgaTAE5frMKELbFb7eHYK7RoJXja7h_qFDTyc0xohyphenhyphenjVAxO7EAQml-8lEKdyzpx1wW8bIt6IxQmbrsdJteD6vzMY1pgKgLSrgHqU30Oloa1CaPdU4lemniJSkcEk3H_X-5L-q0tCJQ3qWk68HkA_M9a6-Saiy7dRiroaBOi-EyzjWQ/w400-h300/IMG_7932.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This one really resonated with me, as it was a lot of speakers projecting readings of nonsense words said with a peculiar rhythm. It was so up my alley. I stayed there quite a bit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6OEd9h-TmGEe5VjdOqNF9KIiDY78Vy-JONSqJuFokaGPk9PRbvp2A2F9J6VWUk5JrTJzAq-NI38M8YaEyiSUtW9X_W8ndPq7MvwA9K41DGnM955mAdm28nFBTSQc_cUCvjx1ThqxTzmONvL2pGqEia5RaR1HyXEDsMJ0M0h6i5Ea6k3owIb4UQFfjt6u/s4032/IMG_7923.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP6OEd9h-TmGEe5VjdOqNF9KIiDY78Vy-JONSqJuFokaGPk9PRbvp2A2F9J6VWUk5JrTJzAq-NI38M8YaEyiSUtW9X_W8ndPq7MvwA9K41DGnM955mAdm28nFBTSQc_cUCvjx1ThqxTzmONvL2pGqEia5RaR1HyXEDsMJ0M0h6i5Ea6k3owIb4UQFfjt6u/w400-h300/IMG_7923.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz377eJB4E1tyUgmpYtqnG9jjpTmgs2588FsdAaWHnoUsTn4D9hFp3mwO5R-R6MzbNmDai6x1hEcFzgVnlLXxIkcDx0vBd__3noABDddwExuzDBc31eW2fGnLbcCRt2odqvGBT7zEePxX3exWy6wTpw2uPNiG5NKZNaw7T6Je5gVAQtTA1MVEfbZr_9ITv/s4032/IMG_7921.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz377eJB4E1tyUgmpYtqnG9jjpTmgs2588FsdAaWHnoUsTn4D9hFp3mwO5R-R6MzbNmDai6x1hEcFzgVnlLXxIkcDx0vBd__3noABDddwExuzDBc31eW2fGnLbcCRt2odqvGBT7zEePxX3exWy6wTpw2uPNiG5NKZNaw7T6Je5gVAQtTA1MVEfbZr_9ITv/w400-h300/IMG_7921.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">My meal of the day (before a big Shabbat dinner we were going to have that night for a couple of friends) was a wild berries Streuselkuchen (crumb cake) with a big Café Crema (it's like a strong Americano, with lots of crema? I don't really know, I had no idea this existed before we moved to Germany, and I love it!). And I left Hannover (with a delay, because German trains) with a view of a square with a massive Christmas carrousel-like structure, tons of Hannoverians drinking beer loudly on the street, and the firm intention to come back with the habibi for a proper visit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKQTFqRnJmrHfokmJcoqAqn8RQYLvtxCk20izs5-I9wCeXOVmbbNlRk6ylxu1zQU0J6rmRHwbWpezsGfltd5Rta_izSJRHPKM6yVWwduCaf1pc6InqB9ShrCCOHWJMOm3wNz-pb5pUEYvYwOlKm3JHQZW780vaXuC44nTIBV2e44yxkJeGk2fqcDR8An2/s4032/IMG_7934.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKQTFqRnJmrHfokmJcoqAqn8RQYLvtxCk20izs5-I9wCeXOVmbbNlRk6ylxu1zQU0J6rmRHwbWpezsGfltd5Rta_izSJRHPKM6yVWwduCaf1pc6InqB9ShrCCOHWJMOm3wNz-pb5pUEYvYwOlKm3JHQZW780vaXuC44nTIBV2e44yxkJeGk2fqcDR8An2/w400-h300/IMG_7934.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDDY3Q9jRBeEorzZXf4T_co5TkYHc89B5gqNwhdnglB7JLeVOrZL_Ut3OsV8S51G0UUuNgBoZjRwdHbSbZEdxcfTH7ZgKRLqxsouFoe2S2Rr8JWlycZPA1gxxAPFnduRgHNnbdzyE1NVGBu-BRVtvHNC1xe_uwrAamDEX3V926lCLCocNWNLSBYI0YjoH/s4032/IMG_7938.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlDDY3Q9jRBeEorzZXf4T_co5TkYHc89B5gqNwhdnglB7JLeVOrZL_Ut3OsV8S51G0UUuNgBoZjRwdHbSbZEdxcfTH7ZgKRLqxsouFoe2S2Rr8JWlycZPA1gxxAPFnduRgHNnbdzyE1NVGBu-BRVtvHNC1xe_uwrAamDEX3V926lCLCocNWNLSBYI0YjoH/w300-h400/IMG_7938.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Hanover, Germany52.3758916 9.732010400000001824.065657763821157 -25.4242396 80.686125436178855 44.8882604tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-2325891011043269442023-11-19T19:05:00.006+08:002023-11-19T19:05:50.177+08:00Grunewald – Renaissance castles, Cranach and Kaiserschmarrn<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday the habibi really wanted to see a Cranach exhibition at a Renaissance hunting lodge in Grunewald, called Jagdschloss Grunewald. I know, we saw plenty of Cranach in Wittenberg, but these ones were supposed to be special. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, Jagdschloss Grunewald. This is Berlin's oldest preserved castle, actually. The thing is, when we arrived, they told us you could only visit on a guided tour, and the next one was a good hour and a half later, so instead of visiting the exhibition and then having a walk in the forest, as we had planned, we had to start with a forest bath first! Actually, we had already had to walk a bit in the forest to get there, and that was quite nice. But the castle sits by a lake (Grunewaldsee), so we had a chance to have a little hike around the lake shore too.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ltMVOArsmhUlU-eq8DYGnEUicO_sGDkXqKjH7_hjrRg5Fqt3ctFYqNBZjjjN992Iq5cAEJOZxyW6xpiUjvdasK12602VbCEKX3klGEaCfa-rBhdYfkQk_t0Cwe3S35rlB740tojUmYhyZ8-qEXBa_5Sgy4a3edJsLMEPpNoROvPH-e5S3DOzP1dMtowE/s4032/IMG_7638.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ltMVOArsmhUlU-eq8DYGnEUicO_sGDkXqKjH7_hjrRg5Fqt3ctFYqNBZjjjN992Iq5cAEJOZxyW6xpiUjvdasK12602VbCEKX3klGEaCfa-rBhdYfkQk_t0Cwe3S35rlB740tojUmYhyZ8-qEXBa_5Sgy4a3edJsLMEPpNoROvPH-e5S3DOzP1dMtowE/w300-h400/IMG_7638.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;">The area is a protected natural zone, so you can't really walk exactly by the water, but only on certain paths, though at specific points the paths do go down right to the water. And that was perfect, because the views were really pretty, especially because we enjoyed some rare partially clear skies! So lucky! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7FUMRIGduZVSmw5YkjuADCTiF0Y1j8ELYhe-odIZ-6IwIJ5P4G478SZPcG1oATN6zUkNo0eD1j1kirwwsud3YOZn7SmWVYE-U9YYLX27tMzcLdULSGY19QZy5HdzbE2Uffz6MZyipqCjdPaqvrQ50K_-pE6d4K0L95_26eb5UrpI0rsGTpPHERcMUZSf/s4032/IMG_7647.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7FUMRIGduZVSmw5YkjuADCTiF0Y1j8ELYhe-odIZ-6IwIJ5P4G478SZPcG1oATN6zUkNo0eD1j1kirwwsud3YOZn7SmWVYE-U9YYLX27tMzcLdULSGY19QZy5HdzbE2Uffz6MZyipqCjdPaqvrQ50K_-pE6d4K0L95_26eb5UrpI0rsGTpPHERcMUZSf/w300-h400/IMG_7647.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6LzoN6Xhh4qa4Hh4aN4RY380jKtNdj55V0n4t1qnIQM09dcColi4IoYn7_hQwYlqo4FNelejF_NZvemdobQehowOnpdWMlbGKdIf-_c0VjGUUN2yNw5YJk0spz7qYmoYlRY8FkLolJ7UcXaP3NRTv5q7XchZB9Pd-btmgHprHTX9hAEYsMC-TTF1N60s/s4032/IMG_7650.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6LzoN6Xhh4qa4Hh4aN4RY380jKtNdj55V0n4t1qnIQM09dcColi4IoYn7_hQwYlqo4FNelejF_NZvemdobQehowOnpdWMlbGKdIf-_c0VjGUUN2yNw5YJk0spz7qYmoYlRY8FkLolJ7UcXaP3NRTv5q7XchZB9Pd-btmgHprHTX9hAEYsMC-TTF1N60s/w400-h300/IMG_7650.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyzns6V8KWGTkJKFKnuY5QXXnF4JSKIJprjNdnNhUOtidIU6R4B-k3Jk_mLfhVHtObptAdN-KAi9Gd1Qiq_EknBhllMhRRiZzwb5nZ6ITXY9VXa_Th_-8uAfHddnuFq-dB5mEUiqON0ry7xTUMmQj9BqwbUyUYfXc2vrkVHsT0Xljd9guIMP4UcjH6kCt/s4032/IMG_7656.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIyzns6V8KWGTkJKFKnuY5QXXnF4JSKIJprjNdnNhUOtidIU6R4B-k3Jk_mLfhVHtObptAdN-KAi9Gd1Qiq_EknBhllMhRRiZzwb5nZ6ITXY9VXa_Th_-8uAfHddnuFq-dB5mEUiqON0ry7xTUMmQj9BqwbUyUYfXc2vrkVHsT0Xljd9guIMP4UcjH6kCt/w400-h300/IMG_7656.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After a while, we walked back to the lodge, had some coffee, and then joined the tour. The building is really interesting, with original Renaissance details here and there, like some arches and the ceiling. But what we were there for was – obviously – the paintings by Cranach the Elder (and some by Cranach the Younger). We certainly got more than we expected! Portraits with delicate details painted painstakingly to convey textures, materials, skin, hair... </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, there was an Adam and an Eve, a Judith and Holofernes, a Lucretia... as well as a series of panels from Christ's life, including a peculiar scene where he goes down to purgatory to take the souls of rightful people who died before him (and who were, therefore, guilty of original sin?) out of purgatory and into heaven, including Adam and Eve! The devils painted on this one were quite interesting. These panels were saved by Protestants right before the church they were at was destroyed by Calvinists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjftl2tw0G39hUU7V-UIsg5s2bBsAxxuwv5q-X0fY5uy5YfSoadeFKb6rzthbXS1Ew-3PefXr9-PXAVSzAldf7XliP8G0NlYagJMd8kxY538jp4JoszshJ-0Zw_vuPZCdSWhQLb6eJM6R4xczhDM3aPUK6HdvjPyKf46HGPOuaaNdDRnFWQeeMuGKjtRLc1/s4032/IMG_7642.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjftl2tw0G39hUU7V-UIsg5s2bBsAxxuwv5q-X0fY5uy5YfSoadeFKb6rzthbXS1Ew-3PefXr9-PXAVSzAldf7XliP8G0NlYagJMd8kxY538jp4JoszshJ-0Zw_vuPZCdSWhQLb6eJM6R4xczhDM3aPUK6HdvjPyKf46HGPOuaaNdDRnFWQeeMuGKjtRLc1/w400-h300/IMG_7642.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB8FYH674DmLOh0Lq5bd4hlwNSEa3yI9hY6aiM6_KRLrL3HBuY2FvsZ-4C-HlhirBJjVyJtUlUpfAKzbPUqbNNKybaPelzlq1evq5lViGHQYj5-AMlBDt3yA9sa72FZ4xlvRGfPIKGKWhZcLEPAFnWFArtW-RGpzAX7pUoh-ZsTW02KP3e57OBf8fXwV5e/s4032/IMG_7644.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We headed to another beautiful old building down the road, and ate at Locanda 12 Apostoli, by the Paulsborn Hotel. Though it's a mostly Italian restaurant, they do have a German dishes menu, and we decided to have some deer goulash with berries and tagliatelle (this was amazing!), a Hefeweizen beer, and Kaiserschmarrn for dessert. Now, we ordered one single dessert to share, but they brought us two plates. Big ones. And when I asked, they assured us it was a single portion, but had split it for us. I was astonished, how could a single person eat a full portion! And what's Kaiserschmarrn? It's basically a pancake that's been shredded, powdered with icing sugar, and served warm with Zwetschgenröster (a plum compote) and vanilla cream on the side. This was one delicious dinner, but it was so filling! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKfrkxzaL9QSEZzp99J2woBIfjFQtqo8Z1FpFN4rRNcS_zbrPCdEUAb4CznruxyWmOyM4PbQic6ydZTJlSHhxqdCdxISD8OIt56CMyrw_fnUKnHwrjC79tyLIiyE4NWqKpwb97_-HoZ4vxM-noMZF73H9tcBW3S21BrpHTb8p5vkN79xydCN7v_Cvx5si/s4032/IMG_7702.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLKfrkxzaL9QSEZzp99J2woBIfjFQtqo8Z1FpFN4rRNcS_zbrPCdEUAb4CznruxyWmOyM4PbQic6ydZTJlSHhxqdCdxISD8OIt56CMyrw_fnUKnHwrjC79tyLIiyE4NWqKpwb97_-HoZ4vxM-noMZF73H9tcBW3S21BrpHTb8p5vkN79xydCN7v_Cvx5si/w400-h300/IMG_7702.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br style="text-align: left;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lh8bJkTRAL8juiTqZ61_rcVxEm6OnS6guskPff3b8jgcXnQ4ckZKudOJZ69lze46w6QgV1deLJSR3FosDc2VaRIhVNkveUTQ4zf-GBQ_Dv1JLGZu5U8mAPjT4xotgo5Q8tyHG1qKe4nmxeTVqC5gT8OjXT1Z3hbhQrr_bQsEbaq_M_yjpzfTAuiKenPN/s4032/IMG_7703.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9lh8bJkTRAL8juiTqZ61_rcVxEm6OnS6guskPff3b8jgcXnQ4ckZKudOJZ69lze46w6QgV1deLJSR3FosDc2VaRIhVNkveUTQ4zf-GBQ_Dv1JLGZu5U8mAPjT4xotgo5Q8tyHG1qKe4nmxeTVqC5gT8OjXT1Z3hbhQrr_bQsEbaq_M_yjpzfTAuiKenPN/w400-h300/IMG_7703.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, it was a good thing we were so full, because getting back to civilization and the bus implied a 20- or 25-minute walk through the forest. In darkness. Which I thought was fun, and hey, I had my mobile's flashlight to show the way and maps and GPS, right? But the habibi... poor thing, I think the nocturnal little hike made him slightly nervous?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5e7pBqINaMBXk5UHdLBzwEa8aqhyphenhyphenSUHSOhenAuQrylQL2gVhg1NOz6ZulKKrpYcHPensnX-a5vEGGkrgo2DVFCI4IJJZ67wc0SltsmL_W4-50ehPYu2psCjyD5MUCTsq2d06d0wwbU5ktomraLQ1XMDmxnZQ_9hMaGlH7ZthhkJbdFZcmowIvdqgjj9cy/s1340/Screenshot%202023-11-19%20at%2011.34.51.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5e7pBqINaMBXk5UHdLBzwEa8aqhyphenhyphenSUHSOhenAuQrylQL2gVhg1NOz6ZulKKrpYcHPensnX-a5vEGGkrgo2DVFCI4IJJZ67wc0SltsmL_W4-50ehPYu2psCjyD5MUCTsq2d06d0wwbU5ktomraLQ1XMDmxnZQ_9hMaGlH7ZthhkJbdFZcmowIvdqgjj9cy/w244-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-19%20at%2011.34.51.jpeg" width="244" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's fascinating how these really special places, and art, are dispersed all over, but not really far from us at all! I mean, this was just a 50-minute ride on public transport!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jagdschloss Grunewald52.467358700000013 13.261422924.157124863821167 -21.8948271 80.777592536178858 48.4176729tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-91364010629659994192023-11-07T19:00:00.001+08:002023-11-07T21:40:34.598+08:00Potsdam – of baroque palaces, fall foliage and Georgian food<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday we decided to visit Potsdam. Sure, we had been before, but this time we had a specific goal in mind – visiting Sanssouci Palace. And that required a special timed ticket. Which made the visit hell, because Berlin's transportation system can sometimes fail miserably and, when we should have been there at the palace in less than ninety minutes, it took us about two and a half hours instead!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, once we finally arrived at what at that moment felt not like the castle, but the fucking castle, and being at the entrance just barely at the time our ticket indicated (at which point they opened the door, which means they only open it precisely at the time slot marked on tickets and neither before nor after?), entering the baroque world of Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia) absorbed us entirely and we could leave the stress and arguing behind.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The ticket included an audioguide and it was perfect. It was one of those rare guides that did in fact enhance the visit, and didn't tire you. We admired the elaborate ceilings and walls, full of mussel-inspired designs that were part of what became known as Frederician Rococo. I loved the colours – gris de lin (a pale gray-violet shade), pale pistachio, pink... We saw the chamber where Voltaire used to stay (I can't believe we were seeing a place Voltaire frequented as a visitor to the king), and we even saw a Warhol inspired on a painting of the king you also get to see at the palace. A really charming visit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMop7z79rKbwFUGYNccGk-j_liYVwyoj3geQliEOhy5qrmD7HLxQL9kP4HMObEMdiA5IkxFDZQlMDbKuItJsitmscAZvK-516gTMUUQAGDYiFUJ-J92cp3crwOnFGqcda5QcNnsOvU9PfCPnqnwTTXoyCxkdGYQfB4N_LOZUffeV_UmXvoc_v5H8oGcBH/s3800/IMG_7190.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2850" data-original-width="3800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnMop7z79rKbwFUGYNccGk-j_liYVwyoj3geQliEOhy5qrmD7HLxQL9kP4HMObEMdiA5IkxFDZQlMDbKuItJsitmscAZvK-516gTMUUQAGDYiFUJ-J92cp3crwOnFGqcda5QcNnsOvU9PfCPnqnwTTXoyCxkdGYQfB4N_LOZUffeV_UmXvoc_v5H8oGcBH/s320/IMG_7190.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH9jqZs6SLU3LUcqOk5177uqMFJWxbcvWyILLRYtpclzf0RTqSIZwx7zzsRc8srvkK1L_viysI3_9i3oeBH_ksBB6t28qzxbptMeS_BM_Snc4TNgJYjRQhZjw1d7HpSWPVRI1NHDkGrH5LMhCgQwASEDeCZvypD1_C9wg9HgbKYavFacrFtFn1tu3lpvts/s3948/IMG_7192.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We took a bus to the Neues Palais, an imposing baroque palace. Sadly, this also required getting a timed ticket, and we were tired, and we really wanted to enjoy the outside area, so we decided we'd visit it again some other day. And so we walked through the beautiful forested area, enjoying the fall foliage, the super kitschy Chinese House, a canal... It's so wonderful to visit this place in the fall...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCkI_oD7X2FMPI5LX_83n7omtgpkV6o__LvEEeZCfWNoImspP6rzmkuzgNdb-fXJXD-qE8KyTrgq7XMX1n22wO7xwWF5hg2oE_Vw3HT9n2qCGNoi6-3tpp20eBzU-_3yGQ9VftPxCr1YkTJlEdRSMbhbz4PP1nsZXu8l0MVqBZFj8neAFRNHoNi3xRp11/s4032/IMG_7204.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCkI_oD7X2FMPI5LX_83n7omtgpkV6o__LvEEeZCfWNoImspP6rzmkuzgNdb-fXJXD-qE8KyTrgq7XMX1n22wO7xwWF5hg2oE_Vw3HT9n2qCGNoi6-3tpp20eBzU-_3yGQ9VftPxCr1YkTJlEdRSMbhbz4PP1nsZXu8l0MVqBZFj8neAFRNHoNi3xRp11/s320/IMG_7204.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJc23P4o6E7VNClnp3EVLqxB1RrDnSIDuIIk2qQoGGaMCnapPxjSFNVrXxsY-4mYykAcPP5KLKnFoj3OmrwcH-YfJZNQnTUpptEiEhewksK2oIGVFTw5pzCsGekODEdzrmeD7gOBJXxV5H3bYLa6GZEtHudkiai1cdNLintTNPwemrRzRON8pDy5994_-K/s4032/IMG_7205.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJc23P4o6E7VNClnp3EVLqxB1RrDnSIDuIIk2qQoGGaMCnapPxjSFNVrXxsY-4mYykAcPP5KLKnFoj3OmrwcH-YfJZNQnTUpptEiEhewksK2oIGVFTw5pzCsGekODEdzrmeD7gOBJXxV5H3bYLa6GZEtHudkiai1cdNLintTNPwemrRzRON8pDy5994_-K/s320/IMG_7205.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdFOTYEAXVLezVtqJWmUuvo_bBC5oXpkQNQhowcy_bJO5PGgdUsUugFVF9c3RMHW7wPVAmnrNtFP5ubcA5ov1b4IIV0D8y9Lu36Irrq2Hz4pjDOFz46YxuaYAb3LYwYoeNVBHccvxP82kmk26ZwI3Sh1i4NaCipDu3VRoBUoCz6Bb_Qca_pnj-St2hkDW/s4032/IMG_7210.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpdFOTYEAXVLezVtqJWmUuvo_bBC5oXpkQNQhowcy_bJO5PGgdUsUugFVF9c3RMHW7wPVAmnrNtFP5ubcA5ov1b4IIV0D8y9Lu36Irrq2Hz4pjDOFz46YxuaYAb3LYwYoeNVBHccvxP82kmk26ZwI3Sh1i4NaCipDu3VRoBUoCz6Bb_Qca_pnj-St2hkDW/s320/IMG_7210.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">By the end of our walk we were cold, tired and hungry, and we just happened to be near a good Georgian restaurant (Tamada). That made it easy to decide where to eat, and we treated ourselves to a couple of Georgian beers, a spinach khachapuri, and lamb mtsvadi. Nice. Gotta eat more Gerogian stuff!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtHxqISUoFAQonXii4tan2_ysuCyMfELUvOhr6u_hBAmU0cf9qLty87Xm_a2Ckkigo6WJ3B_Qtnd7bU1rgAJmPsJrjGPdD-qKVcLWBzNAIy4UjFkdQgaE4VYBz3xafCyao2gscwRniEqJGUPnSvG1-8WnHNJNbRxBvkZfj9yAVjsrcL8oBtsgxQlnjKBd/s4032/IMG_7213.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibtHxqISUoFAQonXii4tan2_ysuCyMfELUvOhr6u_hBAmU0cf9qLty87Xm_a2Ckkigo6WJ3B_Qtnd7bU1rgAJmPsJrjGPdD-qKVcLWBzNAIy4UjFkdQgaE4VYBz3xafCyao2gscwRniEqJGUPnSvG1-8WnHNJNbRxBvkZfj9yAVjsrcL8oBtsgxQlnjKBd/s320/IMG_7213.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2QE-XY0zqm4Ikfnq41crcJcAcD877TCczhiQDY7hTcpCo3QGrr09_ZwAxfrehG-KJ3ZwpbtakB-v6FjH9QxvkpxOGViYgYnY2ucUBmv8PMsxrfefcaQGK941E0uxoTuLlwHX2VuNibrrcPosSo1KmVYk5QdTepDpkmfVjeLIZGoedfhzpgjdu4jJAROi/s4032/IMG_7216.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw2QE-XY0zqm4Ikfnq41crcJcAcD877TCczhiQDY7hTcpCo3QGrr09_ZwAxfrehG-KJ3ZwpbtakB-v6FjH9QxvkpxOGViYgYnY2ucUBmv8PMsxrfefcaQGK941E0uxoTuLlwHX2VuNibrrcPosSo1KmVYk5QdTepDpkmfVjeLIZGoedfhzpgjdu4jJAROi/s320/IMG_7216.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnVmcNgbfYfUVhjhYWKKpTHVyAN2d6d8w6V8Fhj9TvF_NKGDep9irQeAU1ImAZVsIA0qROdZcJ2mHkrlNgUeaD6I17QUMcYSupDRg72F0ZffsfaNLfQIUd8_Ta__Z2zHVr-KaQxF8m2gPeNVza6tV3SUFSJf2V0cuKdhLsTaSf1QL50tkaTsos2qO4SeSH/s4032/IMG_7224.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnVmcNgbfYfUVhjhYWKKpTHVyAN2d6d8w6V8Fhj9TvF_NKGDep9irQeAU1ImAZVsIA0qROdZcJ2mHkrlNgUeaD6I17QUMcYSupDRg72F0ZffsfaNLfQIUd8_Ta__Z2zHVr-KaQxF8m2gPeNVza6tV3SUFSJf2V0cuKdhLsTaSf1QL50tkaTsos2qO4SeSH/s320/IMG_7224.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqiW_1r5SEMm8W1iHqBYEsEt4u0bbWE2I5lhZVO5auZv0fcD01qHdgZIllqpRSgtD0sb4-yySgQZTavqqSS0E3JlDwrgiApIaGO-JaP2bcrC4IiipWaJlnb1V2OCtK7zGjx5uNISMz0NWOlVeiKnpiWZATl-Cas8A1yCjvVKGatpgmR1BF9H9QuFXdTk45/s4032/IMG_7226.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqiW_1r5SEMm8W1iHqBYEsEt4u0bbWE2I5lhZVO5auZv0fcD01qHdgZIllqpRSgtD0sb4-yySgQZTavqqSS0E3JlDwrgiApIaGO-JaP2bcrC4IiipWaJlnb1V2OCtK7zGjx5uNISMz0NWOlVeiKnpiWZATl-Cas8A1yCjvVKGatpgmR1BF9H9QuFXdTk45/s320/IMG_7226.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8NUbpzFcI6_FPAYMaQadIh3wc1T7BT3W6HJZJHZ2VY6cBSrnuqpWkdsSeERZRKNM75P1hIBoJ3enYzH5IUmsUrsrOVvTCRj9NvCVUmT1ZfkoEp6kHf6uEHbYMC5GuHjHVBEQ7tWcaP9Soic3mc6wBdGxXbhAHn8JLprWXS2ayc0vTTtPT86rsjRdDcl8/s4032/IMG_7227.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8NUbpzFcI6_FPAYMaQadIh3wc1T7BT3W6HJZJHZ2VY6cBSrnuqpWkdsSeERZRKNM75P1hIBoJ3enYzH5IUmsUrsrOVvTCRj9NvCVUmT1ZfkoEp6kHf6uEHbYMC5GuHjHVBEQ7tWcaP9Soic3mc6wBdGxXbhAHn8JLprWXS2ayc0vTTtPT86rsjRdDcl8/s320/IMG_7227.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT1od0Hj6lo0j1iS3qHkAtXe7RqtmJHXd33k3mItCqOqlBKQ5euuhNiz_KRZJKTeKqHEYy3iyR_hVzZHkwbG7Fk5e6ujxufw5j-krDwoDYq4B8xBELKBu0lpgEiRtpOmpHotIg-_oHZFzyjmZff2zesOHU-ZRf5LxOSoEkcRUir2xfOde0_Za82WfvRg0/s4032/IMG_7230.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT1od0Hj6lo0j1iS3qHkAtXe7RqtmJHXd33k3mItCqOqlBKQ5euuhNiz_KRZJKTeKqHEYy3iyR_hVzZHkwbG7Fk5e6ujxufw5j-krDwoDYq4B8xBELKBu0lpgEiRtpOmpHotIg-_oHZFzyjmZff2zesOHU-ZRf5LxOSoEkcRUir2xfOde0_Za82WfvRg0/s320/IMG_7230.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">With that, we were ready to back to Berlin, because at night we had parties to go to! But that's for my November post.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Potsdam, Germany52.3905689 13.064472924.080335063821153 -22.0917771 80.700802736178844 48.2207229tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-20760165694412794722023-11-06T19:00:00.001+08:002023-11-06T19:00:00.137+08:00Wittenberg, where Protestant Reformism was born<p style="text-align: justify;">End of October we decided to visit Wittenberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, a short train ride away from Berlin. We had made plans to start visiting nearby towns and cities, at least once a month, and this was the first of these series of visits we hope to be doing frequently.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was quite an interesting day, starting with the beautiful autumn colours on our walk from the train station to our first stop, Martin Luther's house. Really, what a delight. I love the fall. The cool air, the changing colours, the yellow, orange and red trees... Fall is simply my favourite season.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj901Y24UxoK2wNWlODEpJkZpQqUNFZYYpSqZ1D7uvnBgigvihxTAYlibn-V7G7Rp1GfGNtAFdXZJASj24R2TzP33w0oU_TlMEIV6bioTaQutNT4LE-bO4W_Lsg0lDJa_ZhLLj2jshiXw5iwkh4GvlbYjP1KDdFoJVzdw_QAnraLHUjMn8kusuXeYODl35y/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj901Y24UxoK2wNWlODEpJkZpQqUNFZYYpSqZ1D7uvnBgigvihxTAYlibn-V7G7Rp1GfGNtAFdXZJASj24R2TzP33w0oU_TlMEIV6bioTaQutNT4LE-bO4W_Lsg0lDJa_ZhLLj2jshiXw5iwkh4GvlbYjP1KDdFoJVzdw_QAnraLHUjMn8kusuXeYODl35y/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAel-Lv6nIUYHqMIDljIrAbhg-teHssh7ChD6IZwcln31njblK60bjGadv-7l-39_D5sUZQz3-AGI9Dy-4WCDZbGXbdueaXd3glsCKsz5D5AHMXbZ0SXVWFX9ZClGGa3qmgS6rMQpEF5ew159kMbs89boXku79vfSADVrqIh6kirtiudSjo15FbbW1d0rG/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAel-Lv6nIUYHqMIDljIrAbhg-teHssh7ChD6IZwcln31njblK60bjGadv-7l-39_D5sUZQz3-AGI9Dy-4WCDZbGXbdueaXd3glsCKsz5D5AHMXbZ0SXVWFX9ZClGGa3qmgS6rMQpEF5ew159kMbs89boXku79vfSADVrqIh6kirtiudSjo15FbbW1d0rG/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(1).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, Luther's house? That was quite the visit! It used to part of Wittenberg University, built in 1504. And what can I say, the place has absolutely everything you need to follow Luther's path, from being ordained as a priest, until his death. The amount of objects to see is just overwhelming. There are papal indulgences (the kind he rebelled against); a pulpit from where he used to preach; his Sermon on Indulgence and Grace (with which he criticized the papal indulgences); texts with his famous 95 theses; paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Cranach was a contemporary of Luther, and among his paintings there is an incredible piece with the 10 commandments, with very interesting devils populating each segment; there's also a famous painting of Luther); the papal bull excommunicating Luther; translations by Luther of the old and new testaments...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">It's really a lot to take in. There's also a section that talks about how his house was organized, the role of his wife, his relationship to his students... It's a real trip into his life. To think that countries like Germany and the USA would simply not exist in the shapes we know them were not for the reform! And to think he lived half a millennium ago! Half a millennium!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifC45HzBoAnhNd30AiuflRS-ARHia-5enq33yV7979g_Fiy_2bKR04mSfdaxrfB2tnb55AwRLlYu4cdZIEiveaCoRrlU5wao3fzPDweqrbcnvfEn2lAJqw_InYsOM2r4Z-fIfExZYmEwGWtBp3WmQVIKaK0m01Er5fEg6rcXEar3Aq8v93KBoKIFMB8e2t/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(3).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifC45HzBoAnhNd30AiuflRS-ARHia-5enq33yV7979g_Fiy_2bKR04mSfdaxrfB2tnb55AwRLlYu4cdZIEiveaCoRrlU5wao3fzPDweqrbcnvfEn2lAJqw_InYsOM2r4Z-fIfExZYmEwGWtBp3WmQVIKaK0m01Er5fEg6rcXEar3Aq8v93KBoKIFMB8e2t/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(3).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg96bPiIAFGExT_lA_QkDbALkKXewR1L9X6y7d8taDf0u0G1vwZkLxXIyRxQmkcL25HvlO05jfn2sCiki9DSRqWwDRMwWuzC3B7U5X4-fcwnGkRaudNJ4XRByE09q2J_pKmTJADFigpXnoXg64GROLyr83ixAZjM3RbogV-VUAiOevhZi6l81hYNRI_K1iE/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(4).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We also saw the Leucorea, or the old university of Wittenberg, from 1502, where Luther started teaching theology.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNhUgBJqoXUf6aH_1Wqf-0XwUNganntATxvzzrjrm0qLKpv5v9b7Az5hn-gVEut181cQX0M2a3s1Ab-hA30sgC4ymgyHomTc2NIkfhcgE6SFnP0keMh0VLjQemwCETh_9Eyubtu-_xG86obEhJllHoqyh9c6CbG4rz0tYU4kUsyMx3R8RveRMrgA61SSc/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNhUgBJqoXUf6aH_1Wqf-0XwUNganntATxvzzrjrm0qLKpv5v9b7Az5hn-gVEut181cQX0M2a3s1Ab-hA30sgC4ymgyHomTc2NIkfhcgE6SFnP0keMh0VLjQemwCETh_9Eyubtu-_xG86obEhJllHoqyh9c6CbG4rz0tYU4kUsyMx3R8RveRMrgA61SSc/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(2).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrqSXd29VZMQwRAJ4OJuHE08J-21y_ad4PI2kBhY7npTfcr7IYc5wxPGpZVcSHow34JYteOZ1EQFHIsA40lydL_57HQjCLyUmkrOeurJcpXAKJzurbfGo5U5yoojpv7xt0FZBXrf2J4wZL7QyF-aJ1TStgBbcCHgfm6Prpj7mPJNtluFZdi8owLPfk1RP/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(9).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrqSXd29VZMQwRAJ4OJuHE08J-21y_ad4PI2kBhY7npTfcr7IYc5wxPGpZVcSHow34JYteOZ1EQFHIsA40lydL_57HQjCLyUmkrOeurJcpXAKJzurbfGo5U5yoojpv7xt0FZBXrf2J4wZL7QyF-aJ1TStgBbcCHgfm6Prpj7mPJNtluFZdi8owLPfk1RP/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(9).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvAMStyz3z6xOt5b4IIwAZ3cGWkkEtnWPTvE6VLd9l1NAB-qzqobJ_wqE1TlKoKOwEbHTlDVnS7VDe0hx-VzOs98eGMdhoXcVpZf2Us8RiBzwPjuHIgmSeB0NWRHjRSJipFaLdkehlGmNIv-w8izD1X4hsuqSl0j46cb-GFTE_RKz17y0uH08_hGA1ZqL/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(10).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzvAMStyz3z6xOt5b4IIwAZ3cGWkkEtnWPTvE6VLd9l1NAB-qzqobJ_wqE1TlKoKOwEbHTlDVnS7VDe0hx-VzOs98eGMdhoXcVpZf2Us8RiBzwPjuHIgmSeB0NWRHjRSJipFaLdkehlGmNIv-w8izD1X4hsuqSl0j46cb-GFTE_RKz17y0uH08_hGA1ZqL/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(10).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApSxjBCTuFM5OSrFlC3MsbfRPcMEfxRRE9FFAPZwvyaN-yY52ZKyg_2CzYwQRhuoyOa5n-xs9R4C4uCzvSZFpRHidO1_koPKEJzo-EIj73BE3v5DQ9dABWxbsmP7fbCEPMBztoZjN4mtK4VYPD5vpcMJA2LJye2qLw37T33QTE50L-4Z9Bb_zNj4XR5m2/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(11).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApSxjBCTuFM5OSrFlC3MsbfRPcMEfxRRE9FFAPZwvyaN-yY52ZKyg_2CzYwQRhuoyOa5n-xs9R4C4uCzvSZFpRHidO1_koPKEJzo-EIj73BE3v5DQ9dABWxbsmP7fbCEPMBztoZjN4mtK4VYPD5vpcMJA2LJye2qLw37T33QTE50L-4Z9Bb_zNj4XR5m2/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(11).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We visited the charming Rathaus, and then the St. Mary's Town Church and Parish Church (Stadtkirche Wittenberg), where Luther married and from where he preached, and where there are tons of paintings by Cranach the Elder and Cranach the Younger. Like, tons, all sorts of scenes, many quite powerful, especially the ones at the altarpiece. Now, there was one detail we missed, because we thought it was at a different church. But I'll get to that later.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6SJ_Bn62bWC00tSfO0li_CgM6bOKLp0mvEQh7Iy67ijYrYBx1tLKPSGwEBFjNa7hZsx68Ob8mKxG3hjdN79f3TXnKeV6DmYAiapQ9Bhywq8_eh6rUO0taRry0b7Hrgsyxgli1jtykwF8lJtkX9kpiZ_siNWZk35wAL9G8VX8nCWbJtlOvtxTzp5k58QG/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(12).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6SJ_Bn62bWC00tSfO0li_CgM6bOKLp0mvEQh7Iy67ijYrYBx1tLKPSGwEBFjNa7hZsx68Ob8mKxG3hjdN79f3TXnKeV6DmYAiapQ9Bhywq8_eh6rUO0taRry0b7Hrgsyxgli1jtykwF8lJtkX9kpiZ_siNWZk35wAL9G8VX8nCWbJtlOvtxTzp5k58QG/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(12).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIFUAfPAJJ-IahDRCdGpcqDJ3DvfXzhDINrPdamAQt3HunS-FczWulQQjuoNFnVIm0-6j-KipjvqHh6-o10emD_xfsAy2nuduCoVmvwLDkoIXKg93aNxrEZ7ZpTmv6T16PDVxwJs9wDGCdC0Yt_i5_kYbw6m_u3xif4uwu1i751lnWPGRTxN0THTFw_sA/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(13).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIFUAfPAJJ-IahDRCdGpcqDJ3DvfXzhDINrPdamAQt3HunS-FczWulQQjuoNFnVIm0-6j-KipjvqHh6-o10emD_xfsAy2nuduCoVmvwLDkoIXKg93aNxrEZ7ZpTmv6T16PDVxwJs9wDGCdC0Yt_i5_kYbw6m_u3xif4uwu1i751lnWPGRTxN0THTFw_sA/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(13).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIIjg5Ba18ltGH5QBc4M5cDUe0XjLzJ7ddJJvNnVKZEfk7q7LDgoDrdZbil4hbXJmzsyGrj6A4VleSQox7VGPAyaFmHCP8bfGyJEt0T1O_9NCnmkyKiQr9pNg0udy9xJ0LzyohtjC2A60ydWjcLepJSJ2fzC-9TmqiX28qNpWfmM1wBpyKvRC3m_Z6B94S/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(14).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIIjg5Ba18ltGH5QBc4M5cDUe0XjLzJ7ddJJvNnVKZEfk7q7LDgoDrdZbil4hbXJmzsyGrj6A4VleSQox7VGPAyaFmHCP8bfGyJEt0T1O_9NCnmkyKiQr9pNg0udy9xJ0LzyohtjC2A60ydWjcLepJSJ2fzC-9TmqiX28qNpWfmM1wBpyKvRC3m_Z6B94S/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(14).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qohyphenhyphen6TYw7i5w4i31cZrL1ZFjE4FpNJU7y3qE6ciO7mumfuwdCdRHPbJE6mQyymQ1R_4VfW35u_sUyE6udGmWl56opjCOhA_R0dAaBQ68vdO5dPlvNuznyJXYc_S04PCHLlC4zJUt181wQbsFjHfsPDsMswxTjNkTbHoDTkvPN7sq8QR3yhySaELvM3rU/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(15).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9qohyphenhyphen6TYw7i5w4i31cZrL1ZFjE4FpNJU7y3qE6ciO7mumfuwdCdRHPbJE6mQyymQ1R_4VfW35u_sUyE6udGmWl56opjCOhA_R0dAaBQ68vdO5dPlvNuznyJXYc_S04PCHLlC4zJUt181wQbsFjHfsPDsMswxTjNkTbHoDTkvPN7sq8QR3yhySaELvM3rU/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(15).jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Yhz0jBv3MsYNe2tSUzI7-k48Pngj0IHaCNF3oZdTLJx4e3PdrifaS110ol8KyACUlBqfLpSeoQQPEitO56ioNT0gUu_KKQ-0GpiWxjGF70bi5b8Bw5fBsgPDnGmVBIjWVKfR2K6HIzapyY2m-CQUW5723HOol4sCbymU3OtVWSlsIS3PcE7-OIC8LTbR/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(16).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Yhz0jBv3MsYNe2tSUzI7-k48Pngj0IHaCNF3oZdTLJx4e3PdrifaS110ol8KyACUlBqfLpSeoQQPEitO56ioNT0gUu_KKQ-0GpiWxjGF70bi5b8Bw5fBsgPDnGmVBIjWVKfR2K6HIzapyY2m-CQUW5723HOol4sCbymU3OtVWSlsIS3PcE7-OIC8LTbR/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(16).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The weather turned rainy, but we had one more place to visit (well, we had many, but we were running out of energy, plus the next one was going to close soon), the Schlosskirche (Castle Church). This one is famous because it was on the door of this church that Luther nailed his 95 theses. Now, the original door was destroyed, but a metal one is in its place, with the texts of the theses engraved on it. Such a historical place! Arguably the most famous point in the whole city, right? But not only that, besides a very interesting architecture, including some stairwells that seemed positively expressionistic (now we know German expressionism has really old roots!) and the rich decoration of the church, there is one other highlight – Luther himself is buried there. Again, what a historical place.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIhCjSSxmzA4Hn0itnJZAimTk9I6Dzk8dNo7G6hxn68R-8IlXUKg9qdA_RSPP0ATtIAsacMemhyphenhyphen8-3XE6homJks7zkZ1rKijWzGcTw1Zz_yjhXy0Dn72BGVOeXIemqorgX_c1QxFbWw4kqLFjgIVaA_UfggUkbvERWEtxJ7wfhop9SKy9mu2KD44s5j4r/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(17).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIhCjSSxmzA4Hn0itnJZAimTk9I6Dzk8dNo7G6hxn68R-8IlXUKg9qdA_RSPP0ATtIAsacMemhyphenhyphen8-3XE6homJks7zkZ1rKijWzGcTw1Zz_yjhXy0Dn72BGVOeXIemqorgX_c1QxFbWw4kqLFjgIVaA_UfggUkbvERWEtxJ7wfhop9SKy9mu2KD44s5j4r/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(17).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDD3aG0Gjd91hehYFUzsLzXStgajBMf1NfGLi4ZBb_M_ZZFOrxZXwX8ODYNe0EYQ7o1de2sjJ2ivNPf5BAlgqvy2Bj3b6FuD5BLv89IBHthbojALGbrpMGXiBfHqZt1Z_xm7zfmHy8WlF-zJ233VgNefiZSxezDxfpwGh0d1riSvYiYPdSZ9pca5lk_U3F/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(18).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDD3aG0Gjd91hehYFUzsLzXStgajBMf1NfGLi4ZBb_M_ZZFOrxZXwX8ODYNe0EYQ7o1de2sjJ2ivNPf5BAlgqvy2Bj3b6FuD5BLv89IBHthbojALGbrpMGXiBfHqZt1Z_xm7zfmHy8WlF-zJ233VgNefiZSxezDxfpwGh0d1riSvYiYPdSZ9pca5lk_U3F/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(18).jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3lRutbKgf_ae0xMO1aGkTU0GlSrFBTJ-pqvSzhlpueT1db1mcsH-orBjXs57jZYoFZLt2JXRnmodMhYx_exXgjtFlbA1RVx3Q8SQ16hOk99uYqdKLaw48_eubTPJeCrnNsXz8Lu2g2ZFlcarY-lycS9xHhSmvM6hjhBtV16WTpzHHGUwd5z1QhCdhkT3a/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(19).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3lRutbKgf_ae0xMO1aGkTU0GlSrFBTJ-pqvSzhlpueT1db1mcsH-orBjXs57jZYoFZLt2JXRnmodMhYx_exXgjtFlbA1RVx3Q8SQ16hOk99uYqdKLaw48_eubTPJeCrnNsXz8Lu2g2ZFlcarY-lycS9xHhSmvM6hjhBtV16WTpzHHGUwd5z1QhCdhkT3a/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(19).jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZIQJFf5p-OGnQQtXbnUv-ZOmc-jmhctvrvw5u1su7-Q0PpiY-d-TDCnHIF5DvgDaXCwt595hr1O9BozKCdnH7uzZCfbhWKGOGalLIL6fKe95YougfRVInPM6IxY334WhaqLV6ujXSHCuSmlvSRtvQNKz7R95isHuF4noLU8vlon2mlPVTW6AYrgxIFN3/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(20).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZIQJFf5p-OGnQQtXbnUv-ZOmc-jmhctvrvw5u1su7-Q0PpiY-d-TDCnHIF5DvgDaXCwt595hr1O9BozKCdnH7uzZCfbhWKGOGalLIL6fKe95YougfRVInPM6IxY334WhaqLV6ujXSHCuSmlvSRtvQNKz7R95isHuF4noLU8vlon2mlPVTW6AYrgxIFN3/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(20).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, this would have been enough. But there was one more thing we wanted to see. In medieval Germany many churches would put antisemitic stones on their structures, called Judensau (Jews' sow), often a pig being examined in the ass by a rabbi and Jews sucking on the pig's teats. Yeah, like, literally, that was the image. Luther himself explained that the image explained the Torah was inside the pig. Not that Germans needed help with being more antisemitic, you know? We had thought the stone was at the Castle Church, but we then realized it was at the town church, so we went back... and yeah, sure enough, there it was, the fucking piece. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I don't know, it's just that, with all the antisemitism that's been exploding all over since the horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel's civilian population, it made me so angry to see that stone. It's a good thing they left it there, as a reminder of the continent's long history of Jew hatred, and a warning. There is a holocaust memorial on the ground by the same tower where that stone is. In the middle, it creates the shape of a cross (the very description of the memorial mentions this). Really? A cross? I mean.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kHlG4eCJTy1ZGw2OQAoL2Iri4AK8qd7ykluVNvOCFF6qjHPMyneTmvZNzqXo7-Mk2w3YlrMBXyuNFyn8eTz19aiUOtA3PS-7JUMcE-s6pW2b6xUGgvnTU19VESLrCnqhwF0p5z9wDMqCxmlyQaT1tdauMIxP1LkKt_zHWgraRrhD7K8gO378J-WpDiay/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(21).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-kHlG4eCJTy1ZGw2OQAoL2Iri4AK8qd7ykluVNvOCFF6qjHPMyneTmvZNzqXo7-Mk2w3YlrMBXyuNFyn8eTz19aiUOtA3PS-7JUMcE-s6pW2b6xUGgvnTU19VESLrCnqhwF0p5z9wDMqCxmlyQaT1tdauMIxP1LkKt_zHWgraRrhD7K8gO378J-WpDiay/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(21).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25_4TUvvVlzKFZUFpLS-rscIFHwrYEusvfLVhzaI2IAktj8XO5TtD2q_dubBcr6yAhtKT3s-bbd86_nyMvHLNN7JvIfZJnVdhTXWNmG5OV_S2n-Z-E3kVzdtVuKxcY_MPt1TVlw29ZmGmMCUJ0LJg722p69A8Bxui6R39mEKoFgowRQreon0-rIK0eBpf/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(22).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25_4TUvvVlzKFZUFpLS-rscIFHwrYEusvfLVhzaI2IAktj8XO5TtD2q_dubBcr6yAhtKT3s-bbd86_nyMvHLNN7JvIfZJnVdhTXWNmG5OV_S2n-Z-E3kVzdtVuKxcY_MPt1TVlw29ZmGmMCUJ0LJg722p69A8Bxui6R39mEKoFgowRQreon0-rIK0eBpf/w300-h400/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(22).jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The trip ended with a hearty dinner at the Brauhaus, a traditional German restaurant, where we had local bier and I had Sülze, a cold dish made from vegetables and meat preserved in jelly. I actually wasn't sure what I was ordering, but I was so happy when the plate arrived and I realized what it was! My mom used to make something similar to this! It brought nice memories, plus the spicy potatoes were good!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizRZ13msd2t6R-VgkI6v8w4DBRtGU40y5Shan5rjjL4qvh7ELMRPUBvddkGQwsyeoJDvXLm6xI_sKGu_EsQBXOsmRwqie6nuB45_A8BMrZMam_iyKTUlLag_SoZ-l3WxzedI8rt3f6CN52DempXu1HRr68Eze5SfZ1Gd2lVhXpL8oLa0H09XNB8x3b0bD/s4032/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(23).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizRZ13msd2t6R-VgkI6v8w4DBRtGU40y5Shan5rjjL4qvh7ELMRPUBvddkGQwsyeoJDvXLm6xI_sKGu_EsQBXOsmRwqie6nuB45_A8BMrZMam_iyKTUlLag_SoZ-l3WxzedI8rt3f6CN52DempXu1HRr68Eze5SfZ1Gd2lVhXpL8oLa0H09XNB8x3b0bD/w400-h300/2023.10.29%20%E2%80%93%20Saxony-Anhalt%20%E2%80%93%20Wiitenberg%20day-trip%20(23).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Right before we took the train, we stumbled upon the houses of Lucas Cranach the Elder and the Younger. Isn't it absolutely crazy? To be at the place where these famous painters lived? I'm telling you, this trip was one intense trip down history lane. Germany is really stunning in that sense. Glad we've retaken our promise to do short trips more often.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Wittenberg, Germany51.870464299999988 12.641150623.560230463821142 -22.5150994 80.180698136178833 47.7974006tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-81223199672298448922023-11-03T19:00:00.004+08:002024-01-03T21:29:20.894+08:00October, exhilarating, dark, depressing, horrible October<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">October was both the most wonderful month, at the beginning, and the most horrific, depressing, dark and frustrating possible after the 7th...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>6th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a long time without meeting my queer kinky Jew-crew, we got together for dinner and then went to an LGBTQ party called Gegen, at RSO. That was so much fun! Being with friends, seeing tons of sexy people, enjoying the music like I only can in spaces like this... I missed having this! Berlin is certainly unique in this sense. Because sure, I had so much fun in Israel, but it takes a high population density to achieve something like Gegen, plus liberal attitudes that not even many other European cities have. Love. This. City. And my buds!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7R_m3lFm0frXVIgTN0azoFrCvjov84o6ydzCpqpsqnTeRDG_sk5q6g-t8LLHgUbYdf-0NhUUgatQtUEVjdawzGpBN4sxg1ocSNTnTAbKeDgiu-AqBTHfW5bNt7U3FOz1QD3zLptYvvE6MaznSOnrPfktELK8Rjr9lZzn3XlcnmipXnxllzKcJVf58HHxG/s1755/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1755" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7R_m3lFm0frXVIgTN0azoFrCvjov84o6ydzCpqpsqnTeRDG_sk5q6g-t8LLHgUbYdf-0NhUUgatQtUEVjdawzGpBN4sxg1ocSNTnTAbKeDgiu-AqBTHfW5bNt7U3FOz1QD3zLptYvvE6MaznSOnrPfktELK8Rjr9lZzn3XlcnmipXnxllzKcJVf58HHxG/w283-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October.jpeg" width="283" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>7th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was in such a high mood, the warm happy feelings of a wonderful trip to Israel followed by an incredible night out washing over me... When the habibi told me the news of the terror attack in Israel, I literally couldn't understand the words. Horror, shock, fear... the world suddenly and absolutely abruptly turned very dark.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />And then, weatherwise, Berlin took a turn towards rain, grayness and cold... so sadly appropriate.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />A much-awaited birthday from a Jewish friend turned into a welcome safe space for us to get together, breathe, share, cry, hug... We kept telling us that in hard times our strength was staying together. Jokes and tears and laughter and long faces all mixed... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And this is when I found it very hard to post or share anything but short texts that were deeply emotional, very unlike what I would normally write...</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvkJGMrNPZjUlFAya9vhwqvgbgGA6A_vFfH17VJf1ryf8o0B37Cm5Gw8hwarL28ej-iFTKrzU7uzRMhjP7KPEG9URki_XzHhVUwmJyrKX8N5TA9LHwTrqWqchpGWzJk6vLWQewkt9_ZT6p2cw79EOP11m5cYmyBZeTuOJ98lzGHl_inOblRR43LO747Vw/s1392/Screenshot%202023-11-02%20at%2021.53.19.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="816" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvkJGMrNPZjUlFAya9vhwqvgbgGA6A_vFfH17VJf1ryf8o0B37Cm5Gw8hwarL28ej-iFTKrzU7uzRMhjP7KPEG9URki_XzHhVUwmJyrKX8N5TA9LHwTrqWqchpGWzJk6vLWQewkt9_ZT6p2cw79EOP11m5cYmyBZeTuOJ98lzGHl_inOblRR43LO747Vw/w235-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-02%20at%2021.53.19.png" width="235" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfqjGXp8-W1LhaXfsVFqtrUoVZY3LlAmBO7NmkSAOwaMmzCVA7Rn9GqHK2KncPDHp5gUOOfcMwEgOcKn6GkOuPmLNQZ2j9sf6huCW2KGgDhugYL-w6X7qQjQaaql37C3Q-OHhXMzO6FeNQb7SfgsnWKQzd1xDzQxE1XS730GycLNhC_sO7V0eytGOVCsV/s2208/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfqjGXp8-W1LhaXfsVFqtrUoVZY3LlAmBO7NmkSAOwaMmzCVA7Rn9GqHK2KncPDHp5gUOOfcMwEgOcKn6GkOuPmLNQZ2j9sf6huCW2KGgDhugYL-w6X7qQjQaaql37C3Q-OHhXMzO6FeNQb7SfgsnWKQzd1xDzQxE1XS730GycLNhC_sO7V0eytGOVCsV/w225-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(2).jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM_QOY7mtgQHX8jp4nj3_LHmlCRsjHUN3flCajxrIafdKTtKAbKUDI90Vst8AqaBjAtqqJMB6NYRqMGHyoW3yvdFQDJWrgrQ5WnFqDW74syBYxTsYaISoThZKSz4F_kOMSOZkDzU_NMrVQ9oeZkRS_E96QISCCAHycJvSa4_N1MjMliF7Ly00a5T1xIU7/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkM_QOY7mtgQHX8jp4nj3_LHmlCRsjHUN3flCajxrIafdKTtKAbKUDI90Vst8AqaBjAtqqJMB6NYRqMGHyoW3yvdFQDJWrgrQ5WnFqDW74syBYxTsYaISoThZKSz4F_kOMSOZkDzU_NMrVQ9oeZkRS_E96QISCCAHycJvSa4_N1MjMliF7Ly00a5T1xIU7/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(1).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyGivt2kL-p9qe_fwFxbdLZ2egv4Hg0V2jpLTDCiJsjvvMKNmhuc4l0TA5KOUHSg0Rg7qABnlKyW9ujrP5ydj97KYaqxkn7AcN9m7cKIiocqHIe9sY0RPrttbuQHyc2rpEaMBBDKZqQFeu254Hrm6M-3BIySSZtmlXEVJLz2nSIx4Cz86yXcDu-FlUrWwK/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(3).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyGivt2kL-p9qe_fwFxbdLZ2egv4Hg0V2jpLTDCiJsjvvMKNmhuc4l0TA5KOUHSg0Rg7qABnlKyW9ujrP5ydj97KYaqxkn7AcN9m7cKIiocqHIe9sY0RPrttbuQHyc2rpEaMBBDKZqQFeu254Hrm6M-3BIySSZtmlXEVJLz2nSIx4Cz86yXcDu-FlUrWwK/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(3).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>8th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was some sun. In an attempt to make life more bearable, we sat a bit on the balcony, in the sun. And brought out a mooncake I had saved, but couldn't eat during the mid-Autumn festival because we were in Israel. It was a durian lava one, obviously chosen by me. The habibi's face of disgust as its smell wafted over to him when cutting a slice made me laugh. Small victories.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was the day after the horrible news about the terrorist attacks. Normally, I would avoid political demonstrations. But this was a tough moment. And I knew friends were going. So, I joined an anti-terrorism demonstration at Brandenburg Gate. So many people. So many Israeli flags. So peaceful. So unlike the Palestinian celebrations the night before, where people were eating baklava on Berlin's streets to celebrate the mass rape and murder of Jewish civilians, including children.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi21P2E8V_pWrgQbzHh0BwxUwZaVvThbvAt1GfmbVTQ-0im0zs3W1Fn-BJ5pYQ-oZ_IW3zGZmMq3f5-etZMkedEhDNCpQsllQcV4Nux3AeJaLoU85bFLUz-GuDMHp74bYHtAFt6CCJdo-sUhDIQ_nfbXsowv9xL0R9ZiO-ZycghVNUIQrUqS64pM0Ki-_C/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(4).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi21P2E8V_pWrgQbzHh0BwxUwZaVvThbvAt1GfmbVTQ-0im0zs3W1Fn-BJ5pYQ-oZ_IW3zGZmMq3f5-etZMkedEhDNCpQsllQcV4Nux3AeJaLoU85bFLUz-GuDMHp74bYHtAFt6CCJdo-sUhDIQ_nfbXsowv9xL0R9ZiO-ZycghVNUIQrUqS64pM0Ki-_C/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(4).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJi90KOu880-KWX1d5ZUMBeTpDZ_6mzy1vlu9zCnBgSIJktucQx5w4rG2o5tjM3anP4PFIXA8YOlVVa2eJVbaV3fjYxqdmJ6BGq0iobMNBKWcyBE_I6eUF5RX_b1rT9PxgJRpHA3M_-6d3aOsvxRbbDnteWiZQoPwMO7mvYjbqY8ZaN0Fb4gJA6tCU92VR/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(5).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJi90KOu880-KWX1d5ZUMBeTpDZ_6mzy1vlu9zCnBgSIJktucQx5w4rG2o5tjM3anP4PFIXA8YOlVVa2eJVbaV3fjYxqdmJ6BGq0iobMNBKWcyBE_I6eUF5RX_b1rT9PxgJRpHA3M_-6d3aOsvxRbbDnteWiZQoPwMO7mvYjbqY8ZaN0Fb4gJA6tCU92VR/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(5).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>9th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The habibi's mom passed away. Because we didn't have enough sadness... Outside, people continued celebrating death and destruction.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>10th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I feel so much anger at how little care I see for Jewish and Israeli lives... Also, celebrating a birthday seemed like a strange thing to do, but I also wanted to give people a chance to get together and share a warm and caring time, so after asking a few people I trusted, I confirmed to my friends the plan was still on, though with a subdued character.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>11th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i>My walks through Tiergarten are so important these days. Though I'll admit to having used some of them to continue sour arguments with friends and acquaintances online regarding what's happening, I did remember at times to just disconnect and enjoy nature. And it just so happens that I've been seeing a crane (I know, how do I know it's not different cranes? I don't, and I don't care, my narrative is I have a crane bud, and that's that) usually at the same two places. It's lovely.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And also, there was an opportunity to go out and see some beauty, to partially heal from the horrible news we were hearing, reading, feeling... Berlin was having its Festival of Lights, when buildings around the city are lit up (as in many other places for different occasions). It was really cool. It was colourful, it was playfully meaningful (like a cartoon rainbow-coloured elephant and a message that read "Be different!"), and even science-related (like the moon, the sun, the earth and some other planet by the Humboldt University; loved this!). But basically it made beautiful buildings look transformed and unique. And being out, at night, walking the streets and enjoying the show, that was nice. And much needed. It helped forget, for a bit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I called for people to hug their Jewish friends, to ask how they feel, because they (we) were certainly not doing well.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VYfjODIbiVkwerjPvDS1acDFYvshsTioTfuTjvIDShumOcw2D2BgfeOs32abA0K-JBaUIwHhaFaqQSsgfSzSmZsIQ6PvgRybPvCAG_rhe-r0KWJI1jvKI2K_rKfhIWYgDPnC95h6pAJ1xpEcj0AwfzSOcTNg8HX_M-5bCur52AlN9LwCHzzbt7BYkRF3/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(8).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VYfjODIbiVkwerjPvDS1acDFYvshsTioTfuTjvIDShumOcw2D2BgfeOs32abA0K-JBaUIwHhaFaqQSsgfSzSmZsIQ6PvgRybPvCAG_rhe-r0KWJI1jvKI2K_rKfhIWYgDPnC95h6pAJ1xpEcj0AwfzSOcTNg8HX_M-5bCur52AlN9LwCHzzbt7BYkRF3/w300-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(8).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQsguA9AVtTQhPFHOCWF_LkL0lGWg0H6ZtIyR_iTwafL4pfQj-hf8CyG2I8-N9eZGsbK67CcamH3V6ecf_DpTi3Mj5QB_85W9S7xcfPsrWZXs12FWulYZsfLH5jrm6HSI1SdFeuN1tLrVvWMyuJGmSHtwI186XxRh1PO0bQzzZPp9yGYlwILtl0tKaIX6D/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(9).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Three hours, free from clothes, free from social media, free from known faces. And it was so, so good.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>14th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rhetoric is getting so bad, so violent, everybody is calling for the annihilation of Israel and Jews...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><i>13th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i>After breakfast and lunch with one of my dearest friends and work colleagues, and helping her through Berlin's main railway station (you don't want to try and make sense of that place and its announcements and changes and delays on your own in a rush, trust me!), I decided to go watch a film we had been invited to. Why was this so important? Because the cinema – Passage Kino – was located in an area with an important Muslim population. On this day Hamas had called for pro-Palestine demonstrations everywhere in the world. And, well, though they weren't calls for anti-Jewish violence... well, you never know if someone will use the opportunity to take out their hatred of Jews on others... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />But I remembered what a friend told me – you shouldn't live in fear. So, we decided to go. And it was awesome. We didn't see any activity in Neukölln (though later we did find out the police did actually have to disperse a demonstration near our place!), and the film – Tótem – was just absolutely extraordinary. It's a Mexican film by a young, female Mexican director. It's a simple story about a birthday party for an ailing young father, viewed through the eyes of his young daughter. Her acting is just superb, I loved her. The atmosphere... it's so authentic. And personally, the whole concept of organizing a huge, complex celebration that is, in a sense, futile, absolutely ephemeral, hopeless... it's so beautiful and poetic. It really struck a chord with me, the sheer beauty and transformative power of doing something that is fragile, short-lived, and full of love and passion... </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />We finished the night with delicious pizza and a beer at Pazzi X Pizza. They had anchovies pizza! My favourite! This day was Shabbat, and Shabbat is supposed to be a pause, and a time of joy. And though we didn't have time to light candles and do kiddush at home, I'm glad we took the time to be brave and be out, to enjoy ourselves, and to have a nice, calm night, disconnected from the horrible events unfolding in the world.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYliz_lCASKZwa7l8dkbOhP3wYsGR9x-lM5LmsX3AT671D0QDs6h3bO4469Z57G7VQv0i_furfN0ONyd6doz89glMmsr4YD0qUqNby4KFLPBUGXKWhgdry7LIgF7aGOoHokmZuTgTetGfNxkCrDFaiXrQ-1bOZKrdY0_y1nkY4xO21BpkEJVwxlRdT5lv/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(15).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPYliz_lCASKZwa7l8dkbOhP3wYsGR9x-lM5LmsX3AT671D0QDs6h3bO4469Z57G7VQv0i_furfN0ONyd6doz89glMmsr4YD0qUqNby4KFLPBUGXKWhgdry7LIgF7aGOoHokmZuTgTetGfNxkCrDFaiXrQ-1bOZKrdY0_y1nkY4xO21BpkEJVwxlRdT5lv/w300-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(15).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKzzFOnRl_ONHmB2n0sSKA3yVINWc2dDBI66yfXPuYlQC8yTjs_TuGgh89ygdbculTa7O2B70fYO_JBjgKxUGAxoxG61cca0VGRx7Ezkbs4xiIdSo-MmX2pEPDqDdCRLQSmHVlm2wHNYJK_9ocmTuVhDN8l9Q8W8uCzjyZPVRtFpu1mdMuRWSi7j60ZlQ/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(16).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoKzzFOnRl_ONHmB2n0sSKA3yVINWc2dDBI66yfXPuYlQC8yTjs_TuGgh89ygdbculTa7O2B70fYO_JBjgKxUGAxoxG61cca0VGRx7Ezkbs4xiIdSo-MmX2pEPDqDdCRLQSmHVlm2wHNYJK_9ocmTuVhDN8l9Q8W8uCzjyZPVRtFpu1mdMuRWSi7j60ZlQ/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(16).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNu5gRD9mFV_R7WV5-VNBqKQkcD3elqcM1R6AjKdJ26N1AsAY6Jf3wZJqeaBWZ7jP8GXgyecNi658HJYNhJAmGNp_xR_lSaH2RdFaOSc1rLwSnlwBwG_6nBqTwjHN-kz7-PnVNPP3DReUXTV_dBWtTm9PyG1PtHMcFoeu-CWKQyEkS_7GOkYf1AX1r6MC/s2208/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(17).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDNu5gRD9mFV_R7WV5-VNBqKQkcD3elqcM1R6AjKdJ26N1AsAY6Jf3wZJqeaBWZ7jP8GXgyecNi658HJYNhJAmGNp_xR_lSaH2RdFaOSc1rLwSnlwBwG_6nBqTwjHN-kz7-PnVNPP3DReUXTV_dBWtTm9PyG1PtHMcFoeu-CWKQyEkS_7GOkYf1AX1r6MC/w225-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(17).jpeg" width="225" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>14th</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had clear plans on how to overcome the events happening around us – if only temporarily – and maintain a semblance of celebration. I met a friend, had drinks at home and chatted – the habibi wasn't feeling up for a night out, he was still feeling down because of his mom, and I was still in dire need of coping with everything my own way. So, it was friend, alcohol, chatting and then heading to a party called Porcenptual at Alte Münze. I had been once, and I loved it. And this time around, I loved it again. The space is fantastic, but the music is just incredible. Sure, many places do techno, but the DJs they get for Pornceptual have been just so great. And the party is mixed enough for me to feel comfortable... Plus, I was with my bud, and we actually had a great time together!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Having someone to be with let me relax quite a bit, I let go and we explored the space at ease, we danced, we drank, we had fun, we looked at people... He left at 5:30am, after a good 6 hours of partying. And I left at 6:30am, when not even the amazing music and hot people could keep me up. But before leaving, I was even hit on by such a hot Brazilian guy. What a nice night.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And since it was my birthday, I then headed to the sauna, where I could get in for free because it was my birthday! And even though it was rather empty, that didn't stop me from using the sauna room, the cold showers, and meeting more sexy people. Crazy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By 9:30am, after a short stop to buy a bunch of Asian junk food I love, I was finally home</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Kg6SBxD1KHwIsjoivFw7Dr2es5qyG_PMejFCBd3TpIok5Z5uNai0OAS8V7KFJsbeU2snMjekPM8HM0B7ZbvpSi1Ctye8VYwavy4P6g3eNAP7fRF27VIZGLIYvGpJTON1WKElgS0neQLDtHjIgYkdhJ9EQTxiiVqbJKIEPZaFPYRmkLRuJ2t11lTitNzX/s1500/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(18).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Kg6SBxD1KHwIsjoivFw7Dr2es5qyG_PMejFCBd3TpIok5Z5uNai0OAS8V7KFJsbeU2snMjekPM8HM0B7ZbvpSi1Ctye8VYwavy4P6g3eNAP7fRF27VIZGLIYvGpJTON1WKElgS0neQLDtHjIgYkdhJ9EQTxiiVqbJKIEPZaFPYRmkLRuJ2t11lTitNzX/w320-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(18).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RFFZt4FjQ2YIq4z871VRvUYTa7FL32Wynv-mrA8w-Zt3Cn-4iyIi1ZydZAuvcl2p2hv02XzXWzYe_mey3G1JB-bG7RCsUFLQY_PW6VacR3_x11sfI7TxWbuN6r-TFsbtkUMu7JLquCueZi5oRtPp-t93RtQWV_M0u3LQ3nV3GhwamvICduG0_WidgNGT/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(19).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7RFFZt4FjQ2YIq4z871VRvUYTa7FL32Wynv-mrA8w-Zt3Cn-4iyIi1ZydZAuvcl2p2hv02XzXWzYe_mey3G1JB-bG7RCsUFLQY_PW6VacR3_x11sfI7TxWbuN6r-TFsbtkUMu7JLquCueZi5oRtPp-t93RtQWV_M0u3LQ3nV3GhwamvICduG0_WidgNGT/w300-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(19).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw68GKJke4UOo1fFD9Zqz4oZK9v0R9zDObVRUTY5V-40lLof5rP26U91CWqnRf330YXExmf6iOQpM4efLl6MQKCHcdsMj7NZfeNm02MPCco-r3742G5aG3dpp70TKSAAU7EfxM2et5J5Jmf3V7TBRNfvsqru37c3bxQBJWkx2w_0pZTsv7c6qwdXmy8dJ/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(20).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMw68GKJke4UOo1fFD9Zqz4oZK9v0R9zDObVRUTY5V-40lLof5rP26U91CWqnRf330YXExmf6iOQpM4efLl6MQKCHcdsMj7NZfeNm02MPCco-r3742G5aG3dpp70TKSAAU7EfxM2et5J5Jmf3V7TBRNfvsqru37c3bxQBJWkx2w_0pZTsv7c6qwdXmy8dJ/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(20).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>15th</i></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">The habibi was a bit confused, seeing me arrive that late (early?)... and still demanding we go for brunch! But I was so hungry! All that exercise, right? LOL. So, after a bit, we headed to Two Trick Pony, in a very cold morning, for a delicious full English breakfast and coffee, sitting outside. And that was exactly what I needed then. Before starting to feel very tired... Luckily, I managed to get back to my bed around 1pm for a four-hour nap! I guess I was really tired, eh?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But that was perfect, because I had one final birthday activity – seeing friends at a bar? Since I couldn't find it in myself to plan yet another event, even if it was for me, I simply booked a room at The Castle bar and asked friends to meet there. I got a bunch of drink chips so I could buy everybody a drink, and soon enough I was welcoming some 15 friends. It was just so sweet, such a beautiful chance to reconnect, to be together, to feel happy for a bit (many of us are Jewish and had been feeling very down)... The owner of the bar is Israeli. We had a brief but sincere and heartfelt exchange at the bar... And I got gifts! I didn't expect that! It was just a wonderful, warm, lovely surprise, the whole thing. We left at closing time!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm very fortunate.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT2SCJCqjTTZujUJKBigY9rD5Hvn0tzdWQ6JvsoX2lcnL9FomLI3Xo1o5zvKRC1yJ0wewEAaH2L5V983nXu-gVWpLdnZouu1jba96IeaOCR0IaTEcoUiY5sG9sCUObFuViO3omHopIstXFFm65CIhzaWTPidP43BqV8uCciKMbrU8TKV1tWwyUo6htlri-/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(21).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT2SCJCqjTTZujUJKBigY9rD5Hvn0tzdWQ6JvsoX2lcnL9FomLI3Xo1o5zvKRC1yJ0wewEAaH2L5V983nXu-gVWpLdnZouu1jba96IeaOCR0IaTEcoUiY5sG9sCUObFuViO3omHopIstXFFm65CIhzaWTPidP43BqV8uCciKMbrU8TKV1tWwyUo6htlri-/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(21).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOZzfwBcgD4mdkz64bqt9V2uuwUy6JLlfcVe7svqYJGJ2M5OfbcLWp1IScDwnFai-lT6TrfSZBm3HEvJDUzrFrFlA2aDbLSJq9ATmWBU3jQJ8Le8rAezjc1tsw_9FO2K4ZzWMCXorOKhS-mcA-SsCg3US0UfARu4x2KLvpSrTFNiNnI-irX8o4oiJapNO/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(22).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOZzfwBcgD4mdkz64bqt9V2uuwUy6JLlfcVe7svqYJGJ2M5OfbcLWp1IScDwnFai-lT6TrfSZBm3HEvJDUzrFrFlA2aDbLSJq9ATmWBU3jQJ8Le8rAezjc1tsw_9FO2K4ZzWMCXorOKhS-mcA-SsCg3US0UfARu4x2KLvpSrTFNiNnI-irX8o4oiJapNO/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(22).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSL1gcw752ZhvC7yB2j2d_VazDKkxHgbSo6fdmeTVH7Ez-ySLa0joiQXIcUQh5AgeizLEbfc1tKlttDNNZ2t2UevireVwSHyCE5UkGIKftUgMYym9hAUOghsP9pVqL5Gd4zRKY0QQPZdNca8fxMLg9eXnh4k8gGx120Xtg_ibqcSj5RunHZ33TYCNL9-XF/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(23).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSL1gcw752ZhvC7yB2j2d_VazDKkxHgbSo6fdmeTVH7Ez-ySLa0joiQXIcUQh5AgeizLEbfc1tKlttDNNZ2t2UevireVwSHyCE5UkGIKftUgMYym9hAUOghsP9pVqL5Gd4zRKY0QQPZdNca8fxMLg9eXnh4k8gGx120Xtg_ibqcSj5RunHZ33TYCNL9-XF/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(23).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>16th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On my walk back home through Tiergarten the sunset light was hitting a single tree by a small pond. It looked absolutely fairytale-like. Such beauty. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KBsoWx-yUuOCkF_HLr96lXeVsNffNW0BNBDlorGzsWn1A5b1OrjaezfUVL2cmH78fxIjMK_Fane9HVIrdobZbao9T3XN8LR8924yWk52UqCiiJJepCRSojtl-begczg8d-ghPkQEIzUKZdLaUMgk0S6KNY911k6RZtnzFxMsd38NukcwlEoP6bLGfU0K/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(24).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KBsoWx-yUuOCkF_HLr96lXeVsNffNW0BNBDlorGzsWn1A5b1OrjaezfUVL2cmH78fxIjMK_Fane9HVIrdobZbao9T3XN8LR8924yWk52UqCiiJJepCRSojtl-begczg8d-ghPkQEIzUKZdLaUMgk0S6KNY911k6RZtnzFxMsd38NukcwlEoP6bLGfU0K/w300-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(24).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>19th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Everybody is picking sides, arguing, and people die, and people remain hostage, and all leaders fail...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNLDA11l_W-EZb1LLyjFcuLpxY3N_LKiy_CxqyyweH5mjaOgxm8XBk8it4mOAIV-OYVcWUxSVAH7CUU5efuxvUiKY8kkzqCb7evIFinGoWwfyhEkK2svIEP1z_wqXF2_XhoqlukjnUO_2bnP-_q7zia8fzQRfA6e_SQp3NRBZyUlMKqW5hHcUmwGvxycl/s2208/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(25).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNLDA11l_W-EZb1LLyjFcuLpxY3N_LKiy_CxqyyweH5mjaOgxm8XBk8it4mOAIV-OYVcWUxSVAH7CUU5efuxvUiKY8kkzqCb7evIFinGoWwfyhEkK2svIEP1z_wqXF2_XhoqlukjnUO_2bnP-_q7zia8fzQRfA6e_SQp3NRBZyUlMKqW5hHcUmwGvxycl/w225-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(25).jpeg" width="225" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>20th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Went to see a performance called Fenrir. It involved a "living statue", with a woman getting her body pierced with hooks, while Nordic tunes played, and animal bones were incorporated... Pretty peculiar. Not sure I was really into the artistic aspect of the performance, but I'm certainly grateful I can see alternative things like this in Berlin... </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZmxRDWUqn53gX8m2_moi48UAMTAmrn12R-xKplUrB9K8hPh3HX8L6HbbzYUbrxi16uRYgqyEKcn8gXol9plsswsu-IUrHkIVqDwyNySnwsUrwk2KmJWKRcBri6i29bGqH_Dn3-idxCUYTjWJJy1yBI-ch8KxUl3YZXVZJpl-zgZh5_KgrwKlDfsb2C1r/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(26).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZmxRDWUqn53gX8m2_moi48UAMTAmrn12R-xKplUrB9K8hPh3HX8L6HbbzYUbrxi16uRYgqyEKcn8gXol9plsswsu-IUrHkIVqDwyNySnwsUrwk2KmJWKRcBri6i29bGqH_Dn3-idxCUYTjWJJy1yBI-ch8KxUl3YZXVZJpl-zgZh5_KgrwKlDfsb2C1r/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(26).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>21st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I finally got to see Dimitris Papaioannou perform, at the Berliner Festspiele. The performance promised a lot, because of him, because it was a very personal work, and because it invoked sci-fi, horror and the like. Strangely, I didn't enjoy it that much. I loved the use of water and the background, but the performance itself seemed somewhat disconnected, all over the place, despite there being images that will stay with me for a long time. Could it be that current events are really taking a toll on my appreciation of things?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, alcohol and noise help to deal with life, so after the performance we went for a Guinness at Franken Bar, in Kottbusser Tor. And that felt good.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pJd9RoM53GBOTRmUMgGEEZzV9B4AcJ84C1ymvD_lD1PdRpH8ZS_JRdS8DycXgG7jGR37zIjkikoqnqaYfr63UPmrWP-FXejUDKWJLobwhLGeCiqjVKQi7z5hjK6YGWib2A-d2v42dFYUajNLYE33Xt0y5Umxad43bH_kg1Ez2CQwXgA5ZZOFcUId1OVC/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(27).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pJd9RoM53GBOTRmUMgGEEZzV9B4AcJ84C1ymvD_lD1PdRpH8ZS_JRdS8DycXgG7jGR37zIjkikoqnqaYfr63UPmrWP-FXejUDKWJLobwhLGeCiqjVKQi7z5hjK6YGWib2A-d2v42dFYUajNLYE33Xt0y5Umxad43bH_kg1Ez2CQwXgA5ZZOFcUId1OVC/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(27).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKjm6gHDua8jBHncHIS_IpGUO4Ls8aEm7cUzx2wAVZwnVeKdSabm03XQ-2yVf6nXSVJxXjg4JgxX9IV3UAqG4x2Si5vx2-ZQTldWIog3V0MBPiYwW-55vhru3cU-1DNuC9aeIUPmtMYmuZqGESczH4KS9iT4_Xj785kqYb0pycU5JtJJ3ODbeTAIGfQHdy/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(28).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKjm6gHDua8jBHncHIS_IpGUO4Ls8aEm7cUzx2wAVZwnVeKdSabm03XQ-2yVf6nXSVJxXjg4JgxX9IV3UAqG4x2Si5vx2-ZQTldWIog3V0MBPiYwW-55vhru3cU-1DNuC9aeIUPmtMYmuZqGESczH4KS9iT4_Xj785kqYb0pycU5JtJJ3ODbeTAIGfQHdy/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(28).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFt_dM_CQxwojlMH9sCytr71ttzzmw_GE42dJjnd5OBAgY1tWXN6OVbd5_9p-x9aWzz5YpCWsBbgGAVGRjJXAKNT0cDNBZ1tD6QqkN0EGKpxvNaHKredmlD1eXhU2TUjxZczakJL_3LjjfD01bkjp8-fPxWcaIf614fIfg9Iph85T6X78c90b9mC32UBx/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(29).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFt_dM_CQxwojlMH9sCytr71ttzzmw_GE42dJjnd5OBAgY1tWXN6OVbd5_9p-x9aWzz5YpCWsBbgGAVGRjJXAKNT0cDNBZ1tD6QqkN0EGKpxvNaHKredmlD1eXhU2TUjxZczakJL_3LjjfD01bkjp8-fPxWcaIf614fIfg9Iph85T6X78c90b9mC32UBx/w300-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(29).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>22nd</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We happened to be by U-Bahn Bülowstraße. We were looking at a building that survived the war, beautiful thing, colourful, delicate, elaborate. And the U-Bahn station as well, what survived of it, and its beautiful Jugendstil (Art Nouvceau) columns... This area of the city must have been so beautiful. So much lost, so much destroyed...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">That night we saw a film, Daughter of Life, as part of the Berlin Indie Chinese Cinema Week. About a Tibetan girl living in some Tibetan area in China, probably Amdo in Qinghai (outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region). Beautiful, about the search for roots, connection to nature, and the meaning of family. It was so touching, and in many ways also familiar, since we had visited Amdo many years ago, when we lived in Peking. It actually made me cry.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">But the film was at Sinema Transtopia, and next to it was a mosque. And young people wandering around. And though nobody threatened us, my carrying of my Star of David did make us feel unsafe. There have been an increased number of antisemitic incidents in the city, so we were just a bit paranoid. We left the area and went for a cocktail at Fotografiska – to ease our nerves – and pizza at Magic John's Pizza. And that was just perfect.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And since I was in dire need of taking my mind off things, I went to a Schlager Nackt Party at SchwuZ. That is, a party where they played only Schlager (old German pop music) to a crowd of naked (yes, being nude was compulsory) at an LGBTQ club. And I met one of my party buddies there. This was such a nice way to forget about things for just a few hours and feel free and liberated...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFy5U4s0Pe5CcVYg1kcYuVSt9UjsWpjIqznqxiLHPHKacdXFVpP3UsxORWGiA8HOmqoIiOOljin7v96atnqLn1TO6MJQf3RZqJPOShUJf2j05ZMFggOFAEVsl7lZwa0V5C-dj7F2QgZ_VwvbfUgPl9dvP0Mxmp4yY1Li4uflsvqLOhu-tZTHmfnOMYGmmS/s2208/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(30).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFy5U4s0Pe5CcVYg1kcYuVSt9UjsWpjIqznqxiLHPHKacdXFVpP3UsxORWGiA8HOmqoIiOOljin7v96atnqLn1TO6MJQf3RZqJPOShUJf2j05ZMFggOFAEVsl7lZwa0V5C-dj7F2QgZ_VwvbfUgPl9dvP0Mxmp4yY1Li4uflsvqLOhu-tZTHmfnOMYGmmS/w225-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(30).jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Her work is so deep, so touching, dealing with the subjects of gender, oppression, humanity, pain, ritual... I was so grateful to have played a part in this, however small.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_xmx5V-mFxHniwvW6SGEt1dxHOdyiO9Jk819l95-KsZC1zi8w5u5hNV53tMdi9YN-lUj58t2kId6nnooewAv3JIs8VLQwa3pBP7ZQzTesmTbyrIazzTqb_n6ucNzjNnwpfyYSpKqnaLMp2EenUiWi4x45s4v_GBFWpiGjTos4CJ-FsauRCF_QY5FqhLjE/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(36).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_xmx5V-mFxHniwvW6SGEt1dxHOdyiO9Jk819l95-KsZC1zi8w5u5hNV53tMdi9YN-lUj58t2kId6nnooewAv3JIs8VLQwa3pBP7ZQzTesmTbyrIazzTqb_n6ucNzjNnwpfyYSpKqnaLMp2EenUiWi4x45s4v_GBFWpiGjTos4CJ-FsauRCF_QY5FqhLjE/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(36).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGeLQHVyY0fVDICVOk0qwYcc4qL9voHWJGWpDauuZE5fsrCcSkyo44A4cbVWLLviHPhi1LRLfwnc2ZtQiXQoGcF3PEZlGkPiUOO08ZprhS0Kbw3vDbBNhCAYSvZU9z0lq0Gmd6KcOnfNB0ktIHOWOGZnyMsNCesSVrbVD5kgRd1Q5o4Urx3niRn6SU0gjk/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(37).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGeLQHVyY0fVDICVOk0qwYcc4qL9voHWJGWpDauuZE5fsrCcSkyo44A4cbVWLLviHPhi1LRLfwnc2ZtQiXQoGcF3PEZlGkPiUOO08ZprhS0Kbw3vDbBNhCAYSvZU9z0lq0Gmd6KcOnfNB0ktIHOWOGZnyMsNCesSVrbVD5kgRd1Q5o4Urx3niRn6SU0gjk/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(37).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbi1JSG-PLkGBra1KrVU-XFblFGKCPRgtzEgmJAv2DpOmolzKCZ6ZQViddttPWPJzSY12VYYbebsEBTUzjrMXvBiLeHYVW12P_XnRgjEkIBw2HZswE8nsDPiJJXAQTNHwdhdlLcX0BJ_cYA4yAVMxb1YIlLsRUmNjMXjZfT93bb_uiOqThAbY3BmdcXUe7/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(38).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbi1JSG-PLkGBra1KrVU-XFblFGKCPRgtzEgmJAv2DpOmolzKCZ6ZQViddttPWPJzSY12VYYbebsEBTUzjrMXvBiLeHYVW12P_XnRgjEkIBw2HZswE8nsDPiJJXAQTNHwdhdlLcX0BJ_cYA4yAVMxb1YIlLsRUmNjMXjZfT93bb_uiOqThAbY3BmdcXUe7/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(38).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>27th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Watched another film at the Berlin Indie Chinese Cinema Week, at Sinema Transtopia. It was called Bad Women of China, and was a documentary about three generations of Chinese women. It was so enjoyable. The story of the oldest generation, the grandmother, was understandably fascinating, and full of hardship. The mother, she was a Lesbian filmmaker who actually participated at the famous 1995 World Conference on Women in Peking! And the daughter, an artist, living abroad and in China, with a different understanding of her identity. It was such a good film, what a shame the director wasn't available for a post-screening Q&A, even a virtual one.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuWfqUkvvz4FF6uoFv2IKxoJ1meaHhUGWbV-4E2btizw-Y5Y6B_sfTpUtaTUZVzGSe77QN036PYq_pqV7Xv-1MFukE4QJxf8QEjkSkbCGmM7PB_ocZ-1eM_CIL2HRCry55oFVNj2AM_IVlssUUaLPrkOhG5TlOj6D2mZbwW9HxV0TNMicnndp9Kjjnu9b/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(39).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOuWfqUkvvz4FF6uoFv2IKxoJ1meaHhUGWbV-4E2btizw-Y5Y6B_sfTpUtaTUZVzGSe77QN036PYq_pqV7Xv-1MFukE4QJxf8QEjkSkbCGmM7PB_ocZ-1eM_CIL2HRCry55oFVNj2AM_IVlssUUaLPrkOhG5TlOj6D2mZbwW9HxV0TNMicnndp9Kjjnu9b/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(39).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>28th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm exhausted from pointing out antisemitism and how little people call for peace and coexistence and how much they call for death and destruction and erasure. I think about this non-stop, I listen to my regular podcasts and don't really follow them because my mind is still occupied with war, violence, antisemitism, and lack of voices that call for real, honest peace and think about solutions and the future...</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Thankfully, that night was another friend's birthday, and that gave us another safe space for being together, enjoying life, sharing what we thought and felt without fear, as well as drinking and eating and meeting amazing people. It's crazy to think that it takes courage and strength to celebrate birthdays as a Jew...</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrddtCXDtkzCuvy7WZQObXHkUlGM2JNhks6pJ5c68smdCknS6PsNRoKD11rUzqRuZlFjge221sU9ustn9TYwhNcoS_Ys8beSByKehLfzc1tpfRTR1zkGl1TOeTD6W01hBVcilZN7TwV44wJhF9z5dzVmvLv-ZPFyhTMd7RlYk-gZ23X4ubb321tE0bGgNa/s1380/Screenshot%202023-11-02%20at%2021.59.10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1380" data-original-width="812" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrddtCXDtkzCuvy7WZQObXHkUlGM2JNhks6pJ5c68smdCknS6PsNRoKD11rUzqRuZlFjge221sU9ustn9TYwhNcoS_Ys8beSByKehLfzc1tpfRTR1zkGl1TOeTD6W01hBVcilZN7TwV44wJhF9z5dzVmvLv-ZPFyhTMd7RlYk-gZ23X4ubb321tE0bGgNa/w235-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-02%20at%2021.59.10.png" width="235" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYbIIHhCtJ1mE_i8CfkAEQwHN63LMtyOc9kqP4RkvMc2saZoxTzoM5RtE1v7QrhxsoD5CVOoN8HAIA77tnBNpgK9U0euceuZNJKkRhmVq0-b4SkX0s1t3bRRsgfOkep0-bxf9PQWqoseTm7ER9W9_QYkxCNvxqs08lXHv4yNxLixLTVkHS7BTVCRUARpS/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(40).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEYbIIHhCtJ1mE_i8CfkAEQwHN63LMtyOc9kqP4RkvMc2saZoxTzoM5RtE1v7QrhxsoD5CVOoN8HAIA77tnBNpgK9U0euceuZNJKkRhmVq0-b4SkX0s1t3bRRsgfOkep0-bxf9PQWqoseTm7ER9W9_QYkxCNvxqs08lXHv4yNxLixLTVkHS7BTVCRUARpS/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(40).jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKU9whHn37-BmjP2Uv71PQNyJ2Y0eaifAg97OxC-bcUr-XZfJ_ERcldjQM8ALUmx9wtnaB17A5Dzz5bFD-pxpFESf9HbJxbI3Tryhd-9_kFGReVTiWhBfe0QM8CXWRxNcrrj7B8vzzxPyYeaFMRb1uNrEop-RMWvweke4Do8l_v0VIUGKY9HC_MBstAAp/s3807/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(41).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2855" data-original-width="3807" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilKU9whHn37-BmjP2Uv71PQNyJ2Y0eaifAg97OxC-bcUr-XZfJ_ERcldjQM8ALUmx9wtnaB17A5Dzz5bFD-pxpFESf9HbJxbI3Tryhd-9_kFGReVTiWhBfe0QM8CXWRxNcrrj7B8vzzxPyYeaFMRb1uNrEop-RMWvweke4Do8l_v0VIUGKY9HC_MBstAAp/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(41).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>29th</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We visited Wittenberg. Mathin Luther's town. And there's a lot to say about that, so I'll write about that afterwards. But I'm glad we've retaken our plans to visit nearby towns and cities and continue our explorations of this area.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>31st</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fall is so healing... my walks through Tiergarten are really such a happy time... I look at the leaves, the trees, the water, I hear the sound of my footsteps on the leaf-covered ground...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupCxz9NxFsWoe5QuBlgsC_v6ngm7eLkqKWq-QPx75UrUeT0mWF2P-dYcfo9mLJrSFA2Jadb8UKkrVhNHN7tfvY167cO_HcJfF4XDxkjBNOuOp55hHvkUfbj9vPbQUdqZbfEzl3Q8K1e_rFyrefjqvf4iCz79l9kdkeE-A1i3OcqCmlsXDVHBpCc-ZBz2e/s2208/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(42).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhupCxz9NxFsWoe5QuBlgsC_v6ngm7eLkqKWq-QPx75UrUeT0mWF2P-dYcfo9mLJrSFA2Jadb8UKkrVhNHN7tfvY167cO_HcJfF4XDxkjBNOuOp55hHvkUfbj9vPbQUdqZbfEzl3Q8K1e_rFyrefjqvf4iCz79l9kdkeE-A1i3OcqCmlsXDVHBpCc-ZBz2e/w225-h400/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(42).jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSpxFbwzRzKSD7kKaKDGm-tav7-TlHh3oNrP4WVjcBdSsC0IpZtPUeswqbBOjP6ecfTkzeJIV45hK3JKpIGGbSJ2bidsHokaRNx8rNeoHG1KzzukBiL1Wn1zv5mfTnbU20kVvtiQ4gnY-KAhzg7kstxggFlZYMElSIOkXVqtG13yNlU23S7wWlL9U4s4O/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(43).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdSpxFbwzRzKSD7kKaKDGm-tav7-TlHh3oNrP4WVjcBdSsC0IpZtPUeswqbBOjP6ecfTkzeJIV45hK3JKpIGGbSJ2bidsHokaRNx8rNeoHG1KzzukBiL1Wn1zv5mfTnbU20kVvtiQ4gnY-KAhzg7kstxggFlZYMElSIOkXVqtG13yNlU23S7wWlL9U4s4O/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(43).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiueC0G7JzFFLf9c9Sk51-hTXsXbHuEMNQ8HivAR76yA3S-OJ8qWfHIkqXlOWKDpxHmbfK9zKFqnAy78wnGX2oKCkdB8gFSM1d_nBpXGKKCnat8zFUggAr1HibbhO2z5MYGvYea3PmisL0Ap8OVDvPiKp1o1IRr15xyEUspZDFZ8BoeYay0ruzfgreFVMqm/s4032/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(44).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiueC0G7JzFFLf9c9Sk51-hTXsXbHuEMNQ8HivAR76yA3S-OJ8qWfHIkqXlOWKDpxHmbfK9zKFqnAy78wnGX2oKCkdB8gFSM1d_nBpXGKKCnat8zFUggAr1HibbhO2z5MYGvYea3PmisL0Ap8OVDvPiKp1o1IRr15xyEUspZDFZ8BoeYay0ruzfgreFVMqm/w400-h300/2023.10.06%20%E2%80%93%202023.09.31%20%E2%80%93%20Berlin%20%E2%80%93%20October%20(44).jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Berlin, Germany52.520006599999988 13.40495424.209772763821142 -21.751296 80.830240436178826 48.561204000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-19379508572949786722023-10-25T18:00:00.015+08:002023-10-25T18:00:00.155+08:0050 in Tel Aviv, day 9<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Originally written October <span style="color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">5th</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-049a6ae1-7fff-7d0f-eb82-302d189d879d"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today was our last day in Israel! It began with a delicious breakfast - which consisted of pancakes with flamed banana and roasted hazelnuts and whipped cream. And how both the habibi and me received the same ingredients to combine, but ended up with totally different-looking pancakes (his with all the ingredients very evenly distributed on the pancake, mine with the ingredients piled up in the centre to offer contrasting flavours and textures), was a hilarious and lovely metaphor for how different we are.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJIitWq0eLpF2-37dlRtHKZa4WTfm4qE3fUNTBws3lrXb6bwjXuX6VjHwNNW8LkCfLaMKMMxMtWaHSQ4OCiNKsQwWw-e3pF5C8U_VWuCGs5KvucGZI20zRuiaHTG7PrDMrfWnsdX-QhMUaTbHYuCuYPpMzBW7k0234K9L_VaHjNsVYyftdOfXt3ZhU0jj/s4032/image2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipJIitWq0eLpF2-37dlRtHKZa4WTfm4qE3fUNTBws3lrXb6bwjXuX6VjHwNNW8LkCfLaMKMMxMtWaHSQ4OCiNKsQwWw-e3pF5C8U_VWuCGs5KvucGZI20zRuiaHTG7PrDMrfWnsdX-QhMUaTbHYuCuYPpMzBW7k0234K9L_VaHjNsVYyftdOfXt3ZhU0jj/w400-h300/image2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnpjciiugfYad14IVg6mSbCSpSXoZxOcsFRNkoR_TPN95wChJHj5JxdeeV9M0lPJAu1ewQCEEj3_LUmZCA2vw0lZ7J8f5TEsvllcMbhB8vnNbNdNanD4OFKraO4JN8dQ21bN16hxBKA05Nv12PCEpAbijZJ3jphRNy_Qkq7Ah-kYFPoSqS-eVRCTTXo76/s4032/image0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnpjciiugfYad14IVg6mSbCSpSXoZxOcsFRNkoR_TPN95wChJHj5JxdeeV9M0lPJAu1ewQCEEj3_LUmZCA2vw0lZ7J8f5TEsvllcMbhB8vnNbNdNanD4OFKraO4JN8dQ21bN16hxBKA05Nv12PCEpAbijZJ3jphRNy_Qkq7Ah-kYFPoSqS-eVRCTTXo76/w400-h300/image0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After breakfast we packed our things, and had </span></span><span style="color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">a lovely meeting with my Dreck flame. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;">So lucky to have found such sweet people in Tel Aviv!</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With that, we were ready to leave our luggage at the reception, go for some coffee to Mea and some bread at Nordinio, have a bit of a walk, and head back to the hotel to get a car to get to the train station. I love taking the train in Israel, so practical!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLwcpZTBfFJ-uaDuHHebkjRLDHz0AARi5w_3iBLpGcN8tQONz0y8GFXFMDWibzjQ6TJf2IpHUNnTHsbLSjEr9MmUCNwmFdgrH9MeL8-vGgryV0tvna-WJ5MTG1xAqT7Ee4GXR0uAv3spVOqr8sRd9T3cDMnpukxfok1KOpyrN228CulMFK8dVY1Eo1pQZw/s4032/IMG_6460.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLwcpZTBfFJ-uaDuHHebkjRLDHz0AARi5w_3iBLpGcN8tQONz0y8GFXFMDWibzjQ6TJf2IpHUNnTHsbLSjEr9MmUCNwmFdgrH9MeL8-vGgryV0tvna-WJ5MTG1xAqT7Ee4GXR0uAv3spVOqr8sRd9T3cDMnpukxfok1KOpyrN228CulMFK8dVY1Eo1pQZw/w400-h300/IMG_6460.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfDX_tGqOhZ2a-j6dxNkALYz1qTg7GJ3alHhgF0YhQsKfEi55zerCtw5dr-mWX9uROy9A01DxFvOpZgI3E3F6CbDbnBIQgW6CVDuHRfERujzckYaoJ2PZ11c7JoA9jvlFGefV9P3Ej1O-ca6GzdgwFTTvSMmtf-acYKC9ef1KzJWjsjXTKjGOcz_OrhPx/s4032/IMG_6461.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbfDX_tGqOhZ2a-j6dxNkALYz1qTg7GJ3alHhgF0YhQsKfEi55zerCtw5dr-mWX9uROy9A01DxFvOpZgI3E3F6CbDbnBIQgW6CVDuHRfERujzckYaoJ2PZ11c7JoA9jvlFGefV9P3Ej1O-ca6GzdgwFTTvSMmtf-acYKC9ef1KzJWjsjXTKjGOcz_OrhPx/w400-h300/IMG_6461.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the airport, strangely the longest line was for checking our luggage in. One hour! But after that? Security and passport control were a breeze! Which was perfect, because then we could buy some Galilee gin and some Arak. You know, for memory’s sake? Oh, but before that? We were intercepted by Chabad, and I got to shake the lulav and the etrog! Yay! Succot achieved! I love those guys. My Canton experience with Chabad really left a mark.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What a nice stay, It will definitely give me food for thought. But all in all, an awesome birthday trip.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2nd entry, written on the plane</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This older woman praised my tattoos! While I was waiting for the washroom! That reminded me of two other people during my trip who also praised them. Such a welcome and nice surprise. A nice trip until the very end!</span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel32.0852999 34.7817675999999883.7750660638211571 -0.37448240000001221 60.395533736178848 69.9380176tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-63592698948862662622023-10-24T18:00:00.005+08:002023-10-25T02:39:10.609+08:0050 in Tel Aviv, day 8<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Originally written October 4th</i></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-15b2f5b0-7fff-fef7-0d92-46eb276d95d4"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The whole plan today was to have an easy day. We contemplated going to Haifa, but I thought it was going to be too rushed, so we stayed in Tel Aviv.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We wanted to head to Dizengoff Square to look at some more Bauhaus buildings, and on the way there we came upon two bookshops! The first one was Halper’s, down an alley. So many second-hand books! Thousands! And in so many languages! I found a book about Yiddish, and another one on Jewish cultures from around the world. Wonderful!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmfX_KjcpVW3DHvnyemX3NBw0Pumo0Uz_UL6hyphenhyphenJ4GiXeOy-cvVbuy5960b21nA3r5eZkAOTv6JbBV5AOGQNQnQEAIm6NeQt_orDWMBXzu7S2f5lYMK0OGYWWM1jsU9kQU1ejz2qXxD9K_L6UPjRfdlCwyFwiNm5fNFVU0DiFPHkvGMkRmAnY95DVVKYNB/s4032/IMG_6397.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsmfX_KjcpVW3DHvnyemX3NBw0Pumo0Uz_UL6hyphenhyphenJ4GiXeOy-cvVbuy5960b21nA3r5eZkAOTv6JbBV5AOGQNQnQEAIm6NeQt_orDWMBXzu7S2f5lYMK0OGYWWM1jsU9kQU1ejz2qXxD9K_L6UPjRfdlCwyFwiNm5fNFVU0DiFPHkvGMkRmAnY95DVVKYNB/w300-h400/IMG_6397.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKqn4AymyE8Hc1_EHM-JVdnLdFQHLFWgU0VXwrppnYlEVm0PLcOyspC1kouVg-6DxhioC4rsUQdbXfqTY0JfBpl8xLDsk1uyUg1qWA9hRq81-0C8A1UuOU7E0JyuNvl6gW19-dF2dJJuPqO1tq5udOdqlOLlb4QaDhEm4X7MFOay0yvteDmTmttptLgUO/s3572/IMG_6400.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3572" data-original-width="2679" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKqn4AymyE8Hc1_EHM-JVdnLdFQHLFWgU0VXwrppnYlEVm0PLcOyspC1kouVg-6DxhioC4rsUQdbXfqTY0JfBpl8xLDsk1uyUg1qWA9hRq81-0C8A1UuOU7E0JyuNvl6gW19-dF2dJJuPqO1tq5udOdqlOLlb4QaDhEm4X7MFOay0yvteDmTmttptLgUO/w300-h400/IMG_6400.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvsIWjNTLXAYZVzYvmc3zZZ24X38RfVbq4MlrrMojV64ygmdlu2-cA2xobAkNJoFKW6KmPpqfSn77YDIhYGI0xuY-dnmd81mb_Sg6KTKJ-KwBe6bfPrxIW4qMHX8YPrMYfafXv6xzbWvqzHu6PCxyBQ41Iq33oelbs7x4uvp-L5G4g6jkdXt1nZg5mSfy/s4032/IMG_6403.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPvsIWjNTLXAYZVzYvmc3zZZ24X38RfVbq4MlrrMojV64ygmdlu2-cA2xobAkNJoFKW6KmPpqfSn77YDIhYGI0xuY-dnmd81mb_Sg6KTKJ-KwBe6bfPrxIW4qMHX8YPrMYfafXv6xzbWvqzHu6PCxyBQ41Iq33oelbs7x4uvp-L5G4g6jkdXt1nZg5mSfy/w300-h400/IMG_6403.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The second one was Pollak Books. Much smaller, denser, but with some very special treasures, including numerous pamphlets from the early 20th century about Zionism! Fascinating. And I bought one, from 1903! It’s going to be so interesting to read it, since it was trying to argue, in German, about the need, possibilities and obstacles about forming a Jewish state!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgDG5pB-dbUuX29rfOHt7kRxgpPCJVTr0PccE3vxHfpU3DUEKzX2Dh8Xo5PxkGhbNnGNp-9D0ZdPBDXsRqa79C2XYN2_BVQgL0LKrpI4O93RMu1vtvZVYFVH30-zzWpRfVqnDmBi1ApZK4BZr8ZYBAe6qXQQyJNnmKUmfZNY-keWKIBKDF49Ph49eNQO9/s4032/IMG_6404.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgDG5pB-dbUuX29rfOHt7kRxgpPCJVTr0PccE3vxHfpU3DUEKzX2Dh8Xo5PxkGhbNnGNp-9D0ZdPBDXsRqa79C2XYN2_BVQgL0LKrpI4O93RMu1vtvZVYFVH30-zzWpRfVqnDmBi1ApZK4BZr8ZYBAe6qXQQyJNnmKUmfZNY-keWKIBKDF49Ph49eNQO9/w300-h400/IMG_6404.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After that, we went to see some well-done Bauhaus buildings, then we went for a nice walk by the Tel Aviv Port, and then went to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art to see if there was anything we wanted to buy for home (in the end, we didn’t buy anything). </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCIumicBWmLJWUiR23riirQjWBQpI4uzrx-U-J6IYwzn4rdDyDKZWDn0Kxonch2h3bFsdi-ARXCEUSbJy_cO6THrk_UP2JqeUrN5TYHGIs5jkET9nbtOu60an1ptwy6hsdG3staOfwuae9DcHd428RgrKTXvk_J4pYL93ehRqV-ikaADSdSML7Jd-zBwep/s4032/IMG_6410.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uAaXy0lagOfnyQeHoCgMVqidwOTZnAU-PLDaBAfUPScz38zqbg5C3n7eQvK-h6ArMR_dCaEa_ktaVnGVYOnbP57o6w8iRV4hSAP7cQ3_lANlhHEkJ4rTYCOagYU_LMOK9Us0-2M3j33D-UYzu9-VY3ScixuSdRTHKqmjNSSn0Mw4DFJsnE1J9FT0efRq/w400-h300/IMG_6412.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhssh83jmD-CgxpY1YIf1fkc4sMGa3UGQhBhYHLkh4gcWOVZMpbPZj4mmb2yB-KKHA_3re7VowPEJga7NUETb2bitfHECPNceGzYlV3z-tMP3HeyB4lsaCYJDcpEwkL1es0D20jSDs_0qFUHBLsmTh_8lGUp9tiPboFE497G_pR0FdYKEmFaPEZVUZQQBLu/s4032/IMG_6416.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhssh83jmD-CgxpY1YIf1fkc4sMGa3UGQhBhYHLkh4gcWOVZMpbPZj4mmb2yB-KKHA_3re7VowPEJga7NUETb2bitfHECPNceGzYlV3z-tMP3HeyB4lsaCYJDcpEwkL1es0D20jSDs_0qFUHBLsmTh_8lGUp9tiPboFE497G_pR0FdYKEmFaPEZVUZQQBLu/w400-h300/IMG_6416.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were tired, but I wanted to make sure we had one last chance to eat at the Carmel Market and surroundings. We began with sabich (eggplant and egg pita sandwiches) at Tchernichovsky, and then Yemenite food at Ozri Sisi. Delicious! Spicy, filling, so full of flavour! The soup we had, the sauces, the beans with rice… Shame we won’t have more time to try Yemenite food!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were too full after this, we couldn’t even go for a beer, and went instead home to rest.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFZ3smxTd0hMd2QuBebbSSz5_14FyrYXuUsWjz0GlSt93x5N5TFk_oRAG094KEu7B4yWIchnA4OQCq4aMmEW-U4qypq4T3GMiiJNEvAwhPqcIblOLs1ziHvuKH2cInTCFfoU5VlUIm3tiXoRScP-C6mhFAP5Fz7GZYRr9pJGd54IodSRTn0k9DVjGaWn3/s4032/IMG_6421.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFZ3smxTd0hMd2QuBebbSSz5_14FyrYXuUsWjz0GlSt93x5N5TFk_oRAG094KEu7B4yWIchnA4OQCq4aMmEW-U4qypq4T3GMiiJNEvAwhPqcIblOLs1ziHvuKH2cInTCFfoU5VlUIm3tiXoRScP-C6mhFAP5Fz7GZYRr9pJGd54IodSRTn0k9DVjGaWn3/w400-h300/IMG_6421.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOUPMdsMeBClu1e__M2JcDE-Pk8TXc0vg_2VsovTngVy-7xa-crB9XPZb5tD8mfpZ1ulkInIet6mf8eGPcSSEGd1fsZekPLUczS319VzKQvoUueGP1F9W7ilj_kaPuMU6Ps0FYlzg0oGnFXb6qAWr9Uv5K6fS7krcEveRp6rHP0L5zcUDDofNQyegz59nV/s4032/IMG_6426.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOUPMdsMeBClu1e__M2JcDE-Pk8TXc0vg_2VsovTngVy-7xa-crB9XPZb5tD8mfpZ1ulkInIet6mf8eGPcSSEGd1fsZekPLUczS319VzKQvoUueGP1F9W7ilj_kaPuMU6Ps0FYlzg0oGnFXb6qAWr9Uv5K6fS7krcEveRp6rHP0L5zcUDDofNQyegz59nV/w400-h300/IMG_6426.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2nd entry, written the next day</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After a nap (and man did I need a nap!) we decided to go to Tel Aviv Sauna. It opened at eight, this was during the week, I hoped it wouldn’t be like a nightclub where people would arrive super late, right? But at 9pm, the place was almost empty. It was not too bad – a jacuzzi, a sauna, a small steam room, music, a bar… But it was only around 10:30pm that more (but not that many) people started arriving. We decided we could use our time better by getting a nice cocktail.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, we walked to Rothschild Blvd, and walked south along it, enjoying the cooler night, the trees, the Bauhaus architecture, the hotties walking around… This was our final night in Tel Aviv!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We turned on Nahalat Binyamin, our street, and had a banana, date, tahini, date honey and oat milk smoothie. Delicious! At Tamara. The idea for the mix was a Berlin friend who was visiting Tel Aviv. A very nice suggestion!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For cocktails we chose Bushwick again. Our street was so busy with people! Again, I know it’s holidays, but are we on the busiest street of the city? Luckily Bushwick was not that busy and we got a seat on the bar. And I had a Mudd Club – Famous Grouse Whiskey, Old Duff Genever, Palo Cortado Sherry, bitters, black pepper, lemon, caramel, cherries. Nice! I liked the place – welcoming bartenders, good music, a chill atmosphere…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8A43Lx_bYXvRWp1aPs9y7lKdwN2rWYGkcJrfZUd5xX8vYi7-Ptx1TgxBp0WURWva1xbUY0Bn31pSPZZZ0ebtrYHcRis0BvwDzsCUA2brL_HaDvpc6_j-HtdyOD4ThKV_4MPhU-BzctpElCZ_oqxzibkz4g6vZVNLJEyvK51YyuYm1aYstvtWXspGlx3G/s4032/IMG_6435.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP8A43Lx_bYXvRWp1aPs9y7lKdwN2rWYGkcJrfZUd5xX8vYi7-Ptx1TgxBp0WURWva1xbUY0Bn31pSPZZZ0ebtrYHcRis0BvwDzsCUA2brL_HaDvpc6_j-HtdyOD4ThKV_4MPhU-BzctpElCZ_oqxzibkz4g6vZVNLJEyvK51YyuYm1aYstvtWXspGlx3G/w400-h300/IMG_6435.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYhx9YQWDAfe1inCAL68lh90H_ZJ3rTeL_-TWDkXOVepvVFGnGzn8xb1Dm_MRuKtQH5lt3EZTAfL-GV_UWWdj8WPXDjkfMPhxdKL04oEr-gxoRWo4w6_Ohwv52Zau6TpYC0b5DIXolSCK0OqvszCnxYUs_lb9xtvUJdipT7hZzvsX3b_Iyg4k8y1O_Jx8/s4032/IMG_6436.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYhx9YQWDAfe1inCAL68lh90H_ZJ3rTeL_-TWDkXOVepvVFGnGzn8xb1Dm_MRuKtQH5lt3EZTAfL-GV_UWWdj8WPXDjkfMPhxdKL04oEr-gxoRWo4w6_Ohwv52Zau6TpYC0b5DIXolSCK0OqvszCnxYUs_lb9xtvUJdipT7hZzvsX3b_Iyg4k8y1O_Jx8/w400-h300/IMG_6436.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjLwCDHDmciF8ikk6P9FEOFJEcKxA0wzX-wr8ZxpSXRvZ-lbeQyesdyK_6Bd09vMrnKlsNfmce9EUkIZcJJmmpthd3VuyyN2fIacMR2RvDzg0hRIwexue3p_pxKfYKm-RHeM22jKm5IgmaqxeOc-ue1nAzH5bMWKDLCLvdfhFa96TWnMR1cj23X7P0TKI/s4032/IMG_6438.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjLwCDHDmciF8ikk6P9FEOFJEcKxA0wzX-wr8ZxpSXRvZ-lbeQyesdyK_6Bd09vMrnKlsNfmce9EUkIZcJJmmpthd3VuyyN2fIacMR2RvDzg0hRIwexue3p_pxKfYKm-RHeM22jKm5IgmaqxeOc-ue1nAzH5bMWKDLCLvdfhFa96TWnMR1cj23X7P0TKI/w400-h300/IMG_6438.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fired up by the drinks and atmosphere, I wanted pizza! So we went to Pizza Mount Sinai, got two big spicy slices, sat on the street, had some more eye candy and the busyness of it all… What a city.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23VkiWTiNpZeMqKDrbjKyO41D83FMBfkcx2Olb_Cw1AkpRB_QyOeW4RSYH70h9R__Pkmbua0MHYsJo343Ak_nIRKdYy1YChcKN7r4ApFmmnQ-iRS1-Pef3Hsay0vDhqHFcJvI6PdHQSYEf1kEFkfj5TO6tZUtFhwJbysFdsJWyvk6bLXw8BwvCT236tvS/s4032/IMG_6443.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23VkiWTiNpZeMqKDrbjKyO41D83FMBfkcx2Olb_Cw1AkpRB_QyOeW4RSYH70h9R__Pkmbua0MHYsJo343Ak_nIRKdYy1YChcKN7r4ApFmmnQ-iRS1-Pef3Hsay0vDhqHFcJvI6PdHQSYEf1kEFkfj5TO6tZUtFhwJbysFdsJWyvk6bLXw8BwvCT236tvS/w300-h400/IMG_6443.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That could have been enough. But there was a club nearby, Dreck, that on Wednesdays had a gay night, and no entry fee! We went to have a look, and the friendly bouncer did admit that they had just opened and that there were just a few people inside. This was midnight. Yes. Midnight. So, the habibi and me went for a walk, then he went to sleep, and I headed to Dreck for a final Israeli surprise – though the place just had some 15 people and meh pop music at half past midnight, by 2am it had become a frenzy of Israeli music, shirtless men, glasses constantly being dropped and breaking and making the floor wet… So crazy! Plus, I met this super cute guy, and I applied the lessons learned from the guy I had met at PAG – stark Israeli directness. Such a fun night! Oh, Tel Aviv…</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I came back home after 2:00am. And went I left the club, there was no more a line to enter it, but a mass of people! and they weren't letting in anybody anymore, because the place was too packed! At 2:00am on a Wednesday! Amazing. And the street was also so full of movement. What a city.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulzr9OwLNUVQBWdzaEzNxmK6WqQIZK_XIjRxFciEmf1BZrgqbhc70HwKb2h4CY4Uv2l_0a24LJ0oeJDRud_kYipDhLcqIO1svRYPktJRunklTNRFMROVR3Lidgo9O5aHdV_oRuwxfbtdKKpJ_hjM4_dOM28H5G5ykyYbYwTbVe2vc7W-yJvaU70sbRoY/s4032/IMG_6452.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ulzr9OwLNUVQBWdzaEzNxmK6WqQIZK_XIjRxFciEmf1BZrgqbhc70HwKb2h4CY4Uv2l_0a24LJ0oeJDRud_kYipDhLcqIO1svRYPktJRunklTNRFMROVR3Lidgo9O5aHdV_oRuwxfbtdKKpJ_hjM4_dOM28H5G5ykyYbYwTbVe2vc7W-yJvaU70sbRoY/w400-h300/IMG_6452.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel32.0852999 34.7817675999999883.7750660638211571 -0.37448240000001221 60.395533736178848 69.9380176tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-29816305438969174402023-10-23T18:00:00.078+08:002023-10-24T03:41:32.820+08:0050 in Tel Aviv, day 7 / Jerusalem, day 2<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Originally written <span style="color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">October 3rd</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-8d20ea93-7fff-913e-59c8-81ae4f23e48a"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we had an amazing day in Jerusalem! To begin with, we’re now pretty familiar with the whole transportation thing, so getting to the rail station, on the train, and onto a bus in Jerusalem that would take us to the Israel Museum, that was a piece of cake! Yay!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And yeah, we decided that had to be our first stop. The museum. Not only that – we headed straight for the Shrine of the Book, a peculiarly designed building, reminiscent of the vases in which the Dead Sea scrolls were found in. And it was a fascinating exhibition. Not only did we get to see up close scrolls that were two millennia old, but it was also very interesting reading about how they differed on some accounts (like the story of Noah’s Ark), how these early Christian communities organized themselves, and so on.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, the underground part of the building had an incredible exhibition on the Aleppo Codex, a beautiful and detailed text from the 10th century that barely survived the destruction of the Aleppo Synagogue in 1948 and was smuggled back into Jerusalem in 1950. Amazing text and story!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frankly, that visit to the Shrine of the Book would have been sufficient. But when we exited the building, we came upon a model of Jerusalem from the time just before the destruction of the second temple! Done by archeologists and master stonemasons, we couldn’t believe the grandeur of the Second Temple! Wow! That was massive! And beautiful! Such a surprise, and so enlightening!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRuvF5dB0E2rQdfezaQwrLY3raagX1cd8yP6V8LAC81eW_jxL4UZzWOW4C1piUuJGS1cbM0bF3W3kicMEcKTQ-K-RQIULnr2C92KE2kZr4UImCsqSVtEZv69af8GGrdpX_p_okjcd7sW4qN9d9UDjNqcK8LjVy3muYSKn2iQhODW8ECFWmS_hxNOciwES/s4032/IMG_6239.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlRuvF5dB0E2rQdfezaQwrLY3raagX1cd8yP6V8LAC81eW_jxL4UZzWOW4C1piUuJGS1cbM0bF3W3kicMEcKTQ-K-RQIULnr2C92KE2kZr4UImCsqSVtEZv69af8GGrdpX_p_okjcd7sW4qN9d9UDjNqcK8LjVy3muYSKn2iQhODW8ECFWmS_hxNOciwES/w400-h300/IMG_6239.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-Nx1obtT0Pgs22BMiqNOTM42HkkHpKZ_FPEXzbt08tTHWTd_cauDhKDNTKtSV_0LtwxdZ0XB99yBnGw0-eeKbG0pDsl27cy1u-LE-R_yw7LO_vs1oxqi9tDBeNxvdawk54W4cqtD8Q9t_mpvrpZTSQDBBI-Bngpt5_QHqci3qyqrLB3XguLvO3gAClip/s3404/IMG_6241.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2553" data-original-width="3404" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-Nx1obtT0Pgs22BMiqNOTM42HkkHpKZ_FPEXzbt08tTHWTd_cauDhKDNTKtSV_0LtwxdZ0XB99yBnGw0-eeKbG0pDsl27cy1u-LE-R_yw7LO_vs1oxqi9tDBeNxvdawk54W4cqtD8Q9t_mpvrpZTSQDBBI-Bngpt5_QHqci3qyqrLB3XguLvO3gAClip/w400-h300/IMG_6241.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdYAYhgAz-9kHkd09vHZmsUhGSaM14Am9GKarMSr0LlxpIAyQDC3rf3ywNSHjHQo4MyADbTEcXprfS4U3X-Qg3ZzbBgDC2MqrZdCSkbfi3l-NDzZ8zcNMQ9C9QxjcpBhc6dikZ4xjLHHraQcbZZv8b3-1zJu_l1Gv2eRkskK90UWz3sHE7b0FnNnuEZf7/s4032/IMG_6257.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIdYAYhgAz-9kHkd09vHZmsUhGSaM14Am9GKarMSr0LlxpIAyQDC3rf3ywNSHjHQo4MyADbTEcXprfS4U3X-Qg3ZzbBgDC2MqrZdCSkbfi3l-NDzZ8zcNMQ9C9QxjcpBhc6dikZ4xjLHHraQcbZZv8b3-1zJu_l1Gv2eRkskK90UWz3sHE7b0FnNnuEZf7/w400-h300/IMG_6257.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIidvHLdFuGYk_iWP-hHVVJbx-QH75G_c-yZAR4KyPRwO19DTpSaDug2s-6s0uWrRyGy9KhHRl7v-rntoQvOW8kFaO4s4w4_VRcASMI6tumeEWnnnCr_bDBVKND1X1dEUpOK2Sgd9-kFNmPNgrjdFKVWzck-sn-nSiR_ri4QSYCdrpV-AXcqK0yC9li5HH/s4032/IMG_6264.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIidvHLdFuGYk_iWP-hHVVJbx-QH75G_c-yZAR4KyPRwO19DTpSaDug2s-6s0uWrRyGy9KhHRl7v-rntoQvOW8kFaO4s4w4_VRcASMI6tumeEWnnnCr_bDBVKND1X1dEUpOK2Sgd9-kFNmPNgrjdFKVWzck-sn-nSiR_ri4QSYCdrpV-AXcqK0yC9li5HH/w400-h300/IMG_6264.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since we were there and had time, we decided to visit two other parts of the museum. First, the archeological highlights section, containing pieces from 230,000 years ago and later, all from the territory occupied by the land of Israel. That is, these are not objects stolen from other countries. Besides the incredible female figurine from the Golan that was about a quarter of a million years old, there were curious sarcophagi with round tops, as well as many female and male figurines from 6,500 years ago. Such colourful cultures! And it also makes you think about the ephemeralness of our own history… Can you imagine what our cultures might look like in a quarter million years? It’s practically unimaginable, right?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjO2XSDHlVNas9W2v7lgwGiaE3KeixCy_JXsatmnL2wnIse7p_i14NN0isBVN93aUgXyol4ZWSWhkpAhPxgBe8w-eW566FfaTXv-UggUWow74I3hPsVZC4cTkBTY6M5vXKaH5Ooq0aEQf07DoR_x2_N9EyzauCrqy1AlTr00RT2Jqu_MU0hGzT6LVMqaEH/s4032/IMG_6271.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjO2XSDHlVNas9W2v7lgwGiaE3KeixCy_JXsatmnL2wnIse7p_i14NN0isBVN93aUgXyol4ZWSWhkpAhPxgBe8w-eW566FfaTXv-UggUWow74I3hPsVZC4cTkBTY6M5vXKaH5Ooq0aEQf07DoR_x2_N9EyzauCrqy1AlTr00RT2Jqu_MU0hGzT6LVMqaEH/w400-h300/IMG_6271.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AlBmVn4ND-rU_QL1eg_vCn5JuqkCZWDmWBWQ50rFKX3w_jiZTCUrr4WPCCy1mnq7MdZox_dcBPDL9UdG89QJObYQumWQV2dnRH80STz5YmFsvWAZ3WBLgNgl83_HiDMH7MzhJYXoPjA-3YzeBet2UW8ToxQvAMcri5ZAx9wimOKYe6x8QIOBOq_9a88v/s4032/IMG_6274.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9AlBmVn4ND-rU_QL1eg_vCn5JuqkCZWDmWBWQ50rFKX3w_jiZTCUrr4WPCCy1mnq7MdZox_dcBPDL9UdG89QJObYQumWQV2dnRH80STz5YmFsvWAZ3WBLgNgl83_HiDMH7MzhJYXoPjA-3YzeBet2UW8ToxQvAMcri5ZAx9wimOKYe6x8QIOBOq_9a88v/w400-h300/IMG_6274.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDvXo3SzgBY2L5eB9B4zj-UhD0IEJ9Ekt0xVXbihiDEV_FO98Ivx9w3oY9UMBsEyevlMpqeONXoM0MLREiE1AEzkF3FHZx47-xKBwt7Rvk_8IsBQTWPW6f9i8ML6TQrB1CIcuwEkvLPLry2Pz7oBdEjBrcvZ_tgLH_kfMU1Xg1xzjBPmqYQut0kGYmnev/s4032/IMG_6282.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSDvXo3SzgBY2L5eB9B4zj-UhD0IEJ9Ekt0xVXbihiDEV_FO98Ivx9w3oY9UMBsEyevlMpqeONXoM0MLREiE1AEzkF3FHZx47-xKBwt7Rvk_8IsBQTWPW6f9i8ML6TQrB1CIcuwEkvLPLry2Pz7oBdEjBrcvZ_tgLH_kfMU1Xg1xzjBPmqYQut0kGYmnev/w300-h400/IMG_6282.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, we went for the Jewish life and art section, because there were four reconstructed synagogues there – a Venetian one (beautiful Rococo building), a German one (from Horb, in southern Germany, with delightful painted ceilings and walls), an Indian one (from the city of Cochin, and with a decidedly Indian style), and one from Paramaribo (in Surinam). That, plus a beautiful collection of manuscripts (including texts for Pesach and Hanukkah) made our day. So many images that, when in other contexts would seem originally Christian, actually had their origins or influences in Jewish works!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDgggo5pu-5MC0RGJ30xV3KpuPc-qxnU-rQV2TOmJkfilaUQpin_545z2lNrSumezgohPXkAWvl71aRiRjp2f5m4Qdpdm1iaaW-hgUmBrrNhZXIbJFPMYnZl-mTz23TKfnDWZQzWhqobWO0kctdB06CFc8JEAZbVO1znpWep-cr8ixplnG2_g2LLNgWKI/s4032/IMG_6290.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDgggo5pu-5MC0RGJ30xV3KpuPc-qxnU-rQV2TOmJkfilaUQpin_545z2lNrSumezgohPXkAWvl71aRiRjp2f5m4Qdpdm1iaaW-hgUmBrrNhZXIbJFPMYnZl-mTz23TKfnDWZQzWhqobWO0kctdB06CFc8JEAZbVO1znpWep-cr8ixplnG2_g2LLNgWKI/w400-h300/IMG_6290.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIg8c8vyq2R_K5vGO3nw8usGcruVJs2AHHEI13Y9cx2eQulUQp1DrNZclpju1V1MvEBAgBGSR7cLLqTG_i8mAAqOwnDSUW3R-FTBsZmRaakJ73ngfux-3v-GkcfxD-D_26gG_knoKf4QdcsJ5avJSTHj13RoVsVjYrllpT9yAXggkMohmHn3dpuddhDrYy/s4032/IMG_6304.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIg8c8vyq2R_K5vGO3nw8usGcruVJs2AHHEI13Y9cx2eQulUQp1DrNZclpju1V1MvEBAgBGSR7cLLqTG_i8mAAqOwnDSUW3R-FTBsZmRaakJ73ngfux-3v-GkcfxD-D_26gG_knoKf4QdcsJ5avJSTHj13RoVsVjYrllpT9yAXggkMohmHn3dpuddhDrYy/w400-h300/IMG_6304.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfVaEca_uZ_ZCge8CZOl1QsykvsQ6GGmviXhz1ZxM9hnUi6ewT8ehx4gzMJ-86_8dn8AB2mOP5peyt0lPA5MOi3erR-gUpNm1s8e4h_VQFb3VUa4pkCxyCIP3J-0BGMgRjm8bIJVzbEvNdFpucq_jySgfNHF5l0wAhUG870nOpBYnAqbmStjgoSLiyJp7/s4032/IMG_6309.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfVaEca_uZ_ZCge8CZOl1QsykvsQ6GGmviXhz1ZxM9hnUi6ewT8ehx4gzMJ-86_8dn8AB2mOP5peyt0lPA5MOi3erR-gUpNm1s8e4h_VQFb3VUa4pkCxyCIP3J-0BGMgRjm8bIJVzbEvNdFpucq_jySgfNHF5l0wAhUG870nOpBYnAqbmStjgoSLiyJp7/w300-h400/IMG_6309.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, right when leaving, we also saw some mosaics of a Jewish house from the 6th century BCE, which though including a menorah, also had tons of Hellenistic pagan symbols – a true testament to the Hellenization process that was taking place back then…</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lunch was simple, but good – a local dark lager, and a brioche with goat cheese, poppy seeds, onion and sumac. Yum!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaHWM78FkRFvJ2bmtomKCyQLWZ4TfXOKLUv7gfwZ0heL4avgNW0EQhcB-ddThYXh5ik4uO0MoLrPhQAxG3a0USvA8PzV18CJgUtdhD-s4MJZHu5GqThcOy_RUkr-6_njRNsj3ypvleR34VJ2-0SzIYt-rZY3fITUhBQ5m-mvIYSxYzmvL-0ofYPklKPav/s4032/IMG_6316.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdaHWM78FkRFvJ2bmtomKCyQLWZ4TfXOKLUv7gfwZ0heL4avgNW0EQhcB-ddThYXh5ik4uO0MoLrPhQAxG3a0USvA8PzV18CJgUtdhD-s4MJZHu5GqThcOy_RUkr-6_njRNsj3ypvleR34VJ2-0SzIYt-rZY3fITUhBQ5m-mvIYSxYzmvL-0ofYPklKPav/w400-h300/IMG_6316.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqfIYA0ThB9rJ29KB2vKv17plgYEhg-QsHREYraxkQIkwlThng9NyuydEwImmNpI2L9kwyhY3gXd75_COqptNlPS-vlkUYdk1eN7aQWfOPlzbn87NXNbpvqpQEOinlvzte8zH2BWiBrOXfzk18gdtFDywwCIHNDQQWUDrarhx4zI6FQlPNBmpmeC7JmPd/s4032/IMG_6315.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqfIYA0ThB9rJ29KB2vKv17plgYEhg-QsHREYraxkQIkwlThng9NyuydEwImmNpI2L9kwyhY3gXd75_COqptNlPS-vlkUYdk1eN7aQWfOPlzbn87NXNbpvqpQEOinlvzte8zH2BWiBrOXfzk18gdtFDywwCIHNDQQWUDrarhx4zI6FQlPNBmpmeC7JmPd/w300-h400/IMG_6315.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That was one incredible museum visit.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2nd entry (written the next day)</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From there, we went to the old city of Jerusalem. We had a bunch of things to see before sunset! It didn’t quite work out as I expected, though, because a couple of the churches (the Christ Church, the oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, 19th century, modelled like a synagogue; and the St. James Cathedral Church, a 12th-century Armenian church) were closed for some reason. But we did get to visit a tattoo shop that’s been tattooing Christian pilgrims since the 1300s! It’s called Razzouk, and it’s definitely the place you should go to if you want something Christian, traditional, simple, and with a great background story!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvhU8z18uO9vYMsILJUolr501azcQvu78szdigeV-DCJ1cfrNVIBKFzmFeIv2qmjbEHrLEEfLhEWVnCTiMgA_lUk2_FTuLQEezkxWE7r0oXrxsHZSEdyP0g1iAWkkGgCaldRmcfCDOuXbaf7ffPfVNbOf_-lAExURWzuHqiT5dNSINiE6gwsMu-G_Ti6p/s4032/IMG_6321.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvhU8z18uO9vYMsILJUolr501azcQvu78szdigeV-DCJ1cfrNVIBKFzmFeIv2qmjbEHrLEEfLhEWVnCTiMgA_lUk2_FTuLQEezkxWE7r0oXrxsHZSEdyP0g1iAWkkGgCaldRmcfCDOuXbaf7ffPfVNbOf_-lAExURWzuHqiT5dNSINiE6gwsMu-G_Ti6p/w400-h300/IMG_6321.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wandering around we came across this rich world that populates Jerusalem, like Missionaries of Charity (like Mother Teresa), a group of women led by a man singing Orthodox Slavic-sounding hymns in an alley, klezmer musicians in a square… It’s just fascinating. Oh, and we went back to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to see the immovable ladder – a testament to the complexity of arrangements between multiple sects to administer the church. That ladder has been there since the 18th century, nobody knows who put it there, and therefore the many sects cannot agree on what to do with it, lest it upset the delicate – and explosive – status quo.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHhRwtrp4WA2Ji1KI-uhA_p2g24SsXAYMDi_vrSH90QBpTP-v5CLZLx5ebfAWk8ajKus0JDfOvYshDw4QdquS9PkznnXBmfxB8oduU2wMDxi3je9a5rsdPGF-l9teVVnE1xEbjHuYk221v1zfCVIDyVRyUsq5u_rkrVUV9OyVCu_RSMeClOkGCQ_JoAo3/s4032/IMG_6330.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHhRwtrp4WA2Ji1KI-uhA_p2g24SsXAYMDi_vrSH90QBpTP-v5CLZLx5ebfAWk8ajKus0JDfOvYshDw4QdquS9PkznnXBmfxB8oduU2wMDxi3je9a5rsdPGF-l9teVVnE1xEbjHuYk221v1zfCVIDyVRyUsq5u_rkrVUV9OyVCu_RSMeClOkGCQ_JoAo3/w300-h400/IMG_6330.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpAty9-YuWIrxSpeUnDy2CZ89TDwDhVz2VBf_4uVu_Fh97snxmTW-F3NXrRJ0zo7tr4nn7P6qyq-EPjrAoHyPfTSwuFtw3K30sSxfvLU-fqFxKFohhGLaD7GjDA1YhpUncEs9fGR29oi5zj4zL_mEebkvLez60zNab4PwQwNQCzZkuXTxSj88q5IQlsyW/w300-h400/IMG_6344.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We decided to go to the Austrian Pilgrim Hospice of the Holy Family on the Via Dolorosa, from 1863, because not only could we have some Austrian cake (Gugelhupf) with coffee, but also get on the rooftop for views of the city! And there was another reason I wanted to be up there at sunset – the whole point of this trip was to celebrate my 50th birthday. And since I couldn’t get away to celebrate it on the usual Gregorian date, I decided to celebrate on the Hebrew date! And since days in Judaism traditionally start at sunset, my birthday was actually starting this day, with the setting sun.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And it was perfect. Sunset was beautiful, with stunning pinks and oranges. But also the muezzins from all the mosques started the call to prayer, which gave the evening a solemn and special meaning (all that time living in Beirut, you know?). It was a really nice way to celebrate having completed 50 years on this planet. And to finish, we went to the Kotel. It was busy. People were praying, shaking lulavs, singing… I took a piece of paper, wrote a wish, walked to the wall, leaned on it, put my paper in a crack, and felt grateful for the complex, long road (mine and my ancestors’, plus that of those around supporting me) that took me to this moment.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOGV9q6jUCqDiIVTKQRQAY9Un0ZAG6JWO0ynxuP_TtCEP7uLTntLH18wbB0enHlzBYDsVBKPX354jsup9B5HHBJHtFx5pVRK5mhQYKysi2zpL_X_CXgPTAK-b_LSLbhFSAEX1fU0E5F0V0qy7oVU9H2d9qs-EhpBoru8lQ3N_pE3v1JjG9bkdsqTTcdZ0a/s4032/IMG_6350.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhswGvIl8H3IEtwPA5awKpVtmuW3-DWXSlIyEgykQi3YtF0pEa6L_1cUJgF-uNyh4g4s4Ku-pz-331AclIdwxIXoTbVLJzWRGJHUhL2irNzx5U20V8DgIO9ro2hjMEld2Rv5eo2PH-aV4xbhzEhpkhuzSjVD23AincYpvGeDC_R-gI4B-h3M0HTRSCh6RhM/w400-h300/IMG_6385.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We walked the much emptier streets back to the tram, getting some delicious bread on the way. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="color: black; white-space-collapse: collapse;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLU-2unk05wiDyKZgzsSo2e1anNZyZXw4TVJD3dXiqFlM9Usnf62STcrhqKqGJnCFUdoatsCQ-AaH3ogvD3fzlfHsMN1lsHRn_hpITKoZkUYWNz7mgVNoi5OEZ6oV6b94EKnNw0zlPk4jrV0IpkdbJQs3F31zl2wtsGfggxqMeadSfYcOozI7cMltCv08/s4032/IMG_6389.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLU-2unk05wiDyKZgzsSo2e1anNZyZXw4TVJD3dXiqFlM9Usnf62STcrhqKqGJnCFUdoatsCQ-AaH3ogvD3fzlfHsMN1lsHRn_hpITKoZkUYWNz7mgVNoi5OEZ6oV6b94EKnNw0zlPk4jrV0IpkdbJQs3F31zl2wtsGfggxqMeadSfYcOozI7cMltCv08/w300-h400/IMG_6389.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in Tel Aviv, I still had a bottle of wine to open (a gift from our hotel). I let a queer Jewish friend from Berlin (visiting Tel Aviv too) know that we could have wine on the rooftop, and I toasted to my birthday with her and my habibi. One of my goals for this new year is spending more intimate time with my friends, and it was nice to start already!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A good birthday.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbXmyDOuG_Ibrw3PH1gJ4sdlWa0hVVM2mSsml4gKREovAdGf86EoJZglET2my-gOhterJsickjjTdSZOA8mIvPYZ9xi5f4tRd_lsvQEELHBlCpENxIAVLpjCveRBgTBlXwQ7f4n-u1kO0KzJMKgiBRUyC2AlWC_XgRO6CZjiqlJxaPP1k0UtZBNvLyMZb/s4032/IMG_6391.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIbXmyDOuG_Ibrw3PH1gJ4sdlWa0hVVM2mSsml4gKREovAdGf86EoJZglET2my-gOhterJsickjjTdSZOA8mIvPYZ9xi5f4tRd_lsvQEELHBlCpENxIAVLpjCveRBgTBlXwQ7f4n-u1kO0KzJMKgiBRUyC2AlWC_XgRO6CZjiqlJxaPP1k0UtZBNvLyMZb/w300-h400/IMG_6391.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jerusalem, Israel31.768319 35.213713.4580851638211563 0.057459999999998956 60.078552836178844 70.369959999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-70203744535737964482023-10-22T18:00:00.055+08:002023-10-24T23:05:40.216+08:0050 in Tel Aviv, day 6 / Jerusalem, day 1<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Originally written October <span style="color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">2nd</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-b64e850a-7fff-113d-77f0-aa9b5535d840"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>1st entry </i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we visited Jerusalem! We even started it as a normal day, going to the gym, and then having breakfast at the hotel. But after that, we headed to the rail station… and got right on time to board the train to Jerusalem! Along with apparently all of Tel Aviv! The station was busy!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a very smooth ride, and we were surprised to cross so many tunnels. And when we arrived to Jerusalem, the station was so deep! We had to take so many electric stairs up! Once outside, we quickly located the tram we needed to take, and though we miscalculated the stop, I think it made us enter the old city the best of ways – through the Damascus Gate. By the way, while on the tram, it was fascinating to look at all the people on it, as well as on the street – so many people, many of them clearly religious, many carrying lulavs and etrogs (a sort of frond, a sort of citrus, needed for Succot rituals)… Loved it.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But back to the Damascus Gate – the gate itself, and the steps leading down from it… well, I know, it’ll sound strange, but it brought me back to Damascus and entering the city through one of its gates! I mean, even the muezzins were calling to prayer at that moment! So many memories from our time in Lebanon…</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SWGhsskfpWMo7hSlHLZnBlo8Uo9iPkmSmWy2dkei_0-UG56Eb_i0jhbguZFJazpQZNG-SEO3Ay19kDjXdCtkWPvLazpY8R6C6q6eSpT8UtcngNPDwEeZ_Nj3F4msGLIEO2CAyJOIM8RMi8ve5DqY0sQ_u63LYPGI5KAkF1nMsWucUB5wvynElFHYzd_X/s4032/IMG_6101.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4SWGhsskfpWMo7hSlHLZnBlo8Uo9iPkmSmWy2dkei_0-UG56Eb_i0jhbguZFJazpQZNG-SEO3Ay19kDjXdCtkWPvLazpY8R6C6q6eSpT8UtcngNPDwEeZ_Nj3F4msGLIEO2CAyJOIM8RMi8ve5DqY0sQ_u63LYPGI5KAkF1nMsWucUB5wvynElFHYzd_X/w400-h300/IMG_6101.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKj366VbTLeXZksQBXAN4WrlKvh0EKQFQL6tS74UY9Q3mw_teetxdNBJqbYY-PpfcgP012RT_mV0PO6uXf_327vnbUI6OikCc2x_6HLAYz8dQD08LcNydqCfM1Dvr18dwcN_6FabANGpn2etbel3sZSCRcjKuj2j2p-z17dQeKeeOMMhQvGpCA6U6oUE9/s4032/IMG_6105.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbKj366VbTLeXZksQBXAN4WrlKvh0EKQFQL6tS74UY9Q3mw_teetxdNBJqbYY-PpfcgP012RT_mV0PO6uXf_327vnbUI6OikCc2x_6HLAYz8dQD08LcNydqCfM1Dvr18dwcN_6FabANGpn2etbel3sZSCRcjKuj2j2p-z17dQeKeeOMMhQvGpCA6U6oUE9/w400-h300/IMG_6105.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyT1FgwiEV6tNIk_-ZL-6h4na7LfIChm8IJAW29aSZDJGbNXidXqL6f1M63A92i0b4DUhcRZ59G5dYjdoLKRV7HO_490lAyRQEEYN8JJNwi2bPfrPvIkldQ8nC5qGe6MmQrTYmg2ke4Xz0MSBmhEbXjKsOEjMPZrKpr0puoU868BZBa2MRwXlEv6xy4YM7/s4032/IMG_6112.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyT1FgwiEV6tNIk_-ZL-6h4na7LfIChm8IJAW29aSZDJGbNXidXqL6f1M63A92i0b4DUhcRZ59G5dYjdoLKRV7HO_490lAyRQEEYN8JJNwi2bPfrPvIkldQ8nC5qGe6MmQrTYmg2ke4Xz0MSBmhEbXjKsOEjMPZrKpr0puoU868BZBa2MRwXlEv6xy4YM7/w300-h400/IMG_6112.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We walked old, narrow streets; souks; stalls selling all the sweets you could want and all the trinkets you could never need. But we had a mission – to get to the Western Wall. At some point, on the way, we say a sign marking the Via Dolorosa and the way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. But our goal was clear, and we pressed ahead towards the Kotel (the Hebrew name for the wall).</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9YgIFYJMbXSU9GbV43D-Ia7Umu86N5-HndV1jga9wq1_3mEThBfpP4frE8HpT_8o9lZxf6bkGMmPVlMFiFQl0MMeaE4F5ppIunJjuJ9ruNtwReikYPXOPS2wr58vnZbdfL-JOxxzbL6zQOGyOaubFJJYL46KSX10uls2Xmt5C8W4jnXVs7CqbEynLSTd/s4032/IMG_6114.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9YgIFYJMbXSU9GbV43D-Ia7Umu86N5-HndV1jga9wq1_3mEThBfpP4frE8HpT_8o9lZxf6bkGMmPVlMFiFQl0MMeaE4F5ppIunJjuJ9ruNtwReikYPXOPS2wr58vnZbdfL-JOxxzbL6zQOGyOaubFJJYL46KSX10uls2Xmt5C8W4jnXVs7CqbEynLSTd/w400-h300/IMG_6114.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFqwQZ7U9weVCmolgeWZgB-MY1jAGzSSAZpAxSgpKXev3av2n-mDi-_XCEcaXkTMIeS677QRO_GBtXJAzqvrTZNzgmgf1vTu7ZBQLkr8DMNLIkRyqBdOR0OqSS8UbhjnwDLRi-Ib-HDbQE3c7pW0rnMOu6AgnBpnAe531ic8kDAgDJFjukwk8vWQ0j2YW/s4032/IMG_6115.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFqwQZ7U9weVCmolgeWZgB-MY1jAGzSSAZpAxSgpKXev3av2n-mDi-_XCEcaXkTMIeS677QRO_GBtXJAzqvrTZNzgmgf1vTu7ZBQLkr8DMNLIkRyqBdOR0OqSS8UbhjnwDLRi-Ib-HDbQE3c7pW0rnMOu6AgnBpnAe531ic8kDAgDJFjukwk8vWQ0j2YW/w300-h400/IMG_6115.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33Yanj0WDXF6PhOesErKiq0J6o0QcOg7Vd4Q99zbf51qv9D_s4parhUdkYxuxKC_Z6uO01PxDzuEX_eGI7RZSZ5NPCbZ0k9b0ITXUM0F8idsUA8UCZmY7asaGfsrzmTd8k2bTJDcL8rAOe6Cu7-ywvbb4t5YU9Mo0VhQRlCmhTB0l9xxLtTjUKYmp5IGL/s4032/IMG_6120.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg33Yanj0WDXF6PhOesErKiq0J6o0QcOg7Vd4Q99zbf51qv9D_s4parhUdkYxuxKC_Z6uO01PxDzuEX_eGI7RZSZ5NPCbZ0k9b0ITXUM0F8idsUA8UCZmY7asaGfsrzmTd8k2bTJDcL8rAOe6Cu7-ywvbb4t5YU9Mo0VhQRlCmhTB0l9xxLtTjUKYmp5IGL/w300-h400/IMG_6120.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we arrived, we passed through some security. Then through a tunnel… And once outside again, there it was? Like, we were there! I had thought it was going to be a lot more complicated! And yet, there it was, the most important side of Judaism, right there in front of us. I had brought yarmulkes. I had mine on since we had arrived to the city, the habibi donned his. And we approached.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You know I’m not religious (hell, I'm an atheist). But I can appreciate the beauty and importance of ritual and of people gathering together in devotion. There was singing, praying, shaking of lulavs… We approached the wall. I put my hand on it, leaned my forehead on it, and reflected on those generations that preceded me, spanning time and continents – Mexico, Japan, China, the Russian Empire… until at some point, in the deep past, someone had to leave from the very area I was standing on. I felt strong, for having managed to preserve this knowledge from oblivion. I felt strong for having made this trip for my 50th birthday. I felt sad my mom didn’t get to enjoy most of the history I unearthed and none of the Jewish practices I revived. But I also felt happy and calm and confident.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oMJOR2mJ29BIDu5pObCnhIv45CoEquUHQOzwjcWpQCJWtglWmFi-TLdpwArBuOC-3mVn-5nLzhmVhAe5ju1f1JpEXMFA9_UZAS7X80ozZejgrBvBRa5pbmUJkZe4adpUAJcPQtjtNYwFoDRX-H_qNIgdEg_dfoysvb1sb03G8agtUoWLLnNxyh7sxi0u/s4032/IMG_6123.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oMJOR2mJ29BIDu5pObCnhIv45CoEquUHQOzwjcWpQCJWtglWmFi-TLdpwArBuOC-3mVn-5nLzhmVhAe5ju1f1JpEXMFA9_UZAS7X80ozZejgrBvBRa5pbmUJkZe4adpUAJcPQtjtNYwFoDRX-H_qNIgdEg_dfoysvb1sb03G8agtUoWLLnNxyh7sxi0u/w400-h300/IMG_6123.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9lIxujH0VOfqp7h96ADVy5tFfNmJgAKQ58GBp7dVOhW-Yu3YbrpedH-t2NOIwCo9dBD2mgds6zamvR7dHgnjWS2ZzidvH81vu3lEsnbQntbk7DKZLyF9Sp8AwPOenjH6FOJMrQzOUv96Hap78yGIBTAF-nXtLCmB6jrNOZJJpI6pJuVqr_PQBCiRxDuv/s4032/IMG_6136.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9lIxujH0VOfqp7h96ADVy5tFfNmJgAKQ58GBp7dVOhW-Yu3YbrpedH-t2NOIwCo9dBD2mgds6zamvR7dHgnjWS2ZzidvH81vu3lEsnbQntbk7DKZLyF9Sp8AwPOenjH6FOJMrQzOUv96Hap78yGIBTAF-nXtLCmB6jrNOZJJpI6pJuVqr_PQBCiRxDuv/w400-h300/IMG_6136.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We spent some time there, we explored a side tunnel next to the wall, full of men praying… What a special experience.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With that done, the rest of our day consisted of just a leisurely walk around the city. Sure, to other key points. But the main goal has been achieved. </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had a look at the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque. I mean, from the distance. We knew it was going to be tricky, if not impossible, to get in. But from the higher parts of the city close to the wall we did get good views of these most sacred places to Muslims.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcsgx2MZrI8gNShfHPAi9i5Z2TuFVMJs6ZvxElA70iH5LpfX-jJZJlitb0VrqnpQwEPzq7QPdN9LgL8aC86nP3tbzgBNGwKLry9lKGrmfGtzfmT1ifAbJp_SKpJ3s0rv11vEpore8qp_ACpWfMUigBFaZ-c7z5RtruZ91W6e0jjEmuqbK8y-j5-ydMKu9/s4032/IMG_6146.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDcsgx2MZrI8gNShfHPAi9i5Z2TuFVMJs6ZvxElA70iH5LpfX-jJZJlitb0VrqnpQwEPzq7QPdN9LgL8aC86nP3tbzgBNGwKLry9lKGrmfGtzfmT1ifAbJp_SKpJ3s0rv11vEpore8qp_ACpWfMUigBFaZ-c7z5RtruZ91W6e0jjEmuqbK8y-j5-ydMKu9/w400-h300/IMG_6146.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnH3p0gRro79K2z78WkvwSSWGb9tDO-3i09m0XrezLDxbGqgXnDJv30cBEVWIlCFR_259itJrD6yC3QPeQeq0glxnMeROicUFvAwo41M5E6OIwtAGklODhYoGrM-Ez1OcmFXrIa5RiAEKiAuTqiAs2NL2AVW6o4q2KxuOTxck4l2-eAdKMDXDP295u7JD5/s4032/IMG_6154.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnH3p0gRro79K2z78WkvwSSWGb9tDO-3i09m0XrezLDxbGqgXnDJv30cBEVWIlCFR_259itJrD6yC3QPeQeq0glxnMeROicUFvAwo41M5E6OIwtAGklODhYoGrM-Ez1OcmFXrIa5RiAEKiAuTqiAs2NL2AVW6o4q2KxuOTxck4l2-eAdKMDXDP295u7JD5/w400-h300/IMG_6154.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From there, and after being slightly overcharged for some delicious sweets we bought, we traversed the Jewish Quarter until we reached the Christian Quarter. Because yes, we were going to the city's third most important site and the most important one for Christianity – the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That was one curious experience. The church was originally erected in the 4th century. But it’s undergone centuries of destruction and reconstruction, of Orthodox and Catholic factions fighting over its administration… What you see know is a fascinating multi-layered space, with chapels and sacred corners, with Catholic and Orthodox symbolism… there’s a rock on which supposedly Jesus of Nazareth would have been crucified. A spot where he would supposedly have been anointed after death… People were praying fervorously, touching and rubbing surfaces… the light was done just right and it did impart an air of solemnity.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8iVDrHnGDKf1IYtWP3vrXAP44hs1P08LtSjS8FChyphenhyphenlRaZWpHu5jN5Cj98n9Hsoe0OLrnvbnCaTD5z0CNTJ50OjBUAvHspPf0TikvzobpxrpI59WV5XwQKPZDuNTsMDXV35pz2G9FRAPMVP5ToTOt7ATWr7ZgThz-JWOXb37kmFY707mHbRGeYlX0jt2k/s4032/IMG_6157.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8iVDrHnGDKf1IYtWP3vrXAP44hs1P08LtSjS8FChyphenhyphenlRaZWpHu5jN5Cj98n9Hsoe0OLrnvbnCaTD5z0CNTJ50OjBUAvHspPf0TikvzobpxrpI59WV5XwQKPZDuNTsMDXV35pz2G9FRAPMVP5ToTOt7ATWr7ZgThz-JWOXb37kmFY707mHbRGeYlX0jt2k/w300-h400/IMG_6157.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uScmnBdvT1SUTfQ-Q2aRAikk8oR9M8e6ACAu3xI5Fmac1dE4lkv15fF8YTNUrmVNrJveuuUIeLOWtK_NWwIniZATbjt-YuNAq6kuWnLMA50pXG6py2Nza_naZOVr5NixyKVRYPn4sIAGczcRidXnTDtkOh-r2_QylrRsUduII1UkfWLdizcPBS2R9UKn/s4032/IMG_6167.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uScmnBdvT1SUTfQ-Q2aRAikk8oR9M8e6ACAu3xI5Fmac1dE4lkv15fF8YTNUrmVNrJveuuUIeLOWtK_NWwIniZATbjt-YuNAq6kuWnLMA50pXG6py2Nza_naZOVr5NixyKVRYPn4sIAGczcRidXnTDtkOh-r2_QylrRsUduII1UkfWLdizcPBS2R9UKn/w400-h300/IMG_6167.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_XBQwaZh9J9dvTbQqclFPcJQrRZddnNKwxDtw0nb2MKBHD5wd8yQSYMG4l8Fj21v1hzVP-XXZbpbOmDn3-C2B3BYxNK-FkHpO2levXwXxa_0Ql2LXxVQlaRYssp_d2riUrriOex36m0vLcr-qNRm1BsfHGlWHOt2QXpreQAeoapRvkt29ZmlOD25mZjH/s4032/IMG_6172.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_XBQwaZh9J9dvTbQqclFPcJQrRZddnNKwxDtw0nb2MKBHD5wd8yQSYMG4l8Fj21v1hzVP-XXZbpbOmDn3-C2B3BYxNK-FkHpO2levXwXxa_0Ql2LXxVQlaRYssp_d2riUrriOex36m0vLcr-qNRm1BsfHGlWHOt2QXpreQAeoapRvkt29ZmlOD25mZjH/w400-h300/IMG_6172.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5_-kSvBYkaG_Zw03gY8gRlmt-2hv1OmoYxK74Kqgbr5BiMBWmCmz1uLlLynjyEQ-aZaekG96tksuHNrX2vfthbOWpjJJN6GleGWpF6Jt8Q5hTk2FGX2qT_71YGrsljX9epXGINoD5kIL4ZYAc6iLalln2T04OoPWmTEq0yFJUgSIVt9zd143CljGCHm3/s4032/IMG_6179.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP5_-kSvBYkaG_Zw03gY8gRlmt-2hv1OmoYxK74Kqgbr5BiMBWmCmz1uLlLynjyEQ-aZaekG96tksuHNrX2vfthbOWpjJJN6GleGWpF6Jt8Q5hTk2FGX2qT_71YGrsljX9epXGINoD5kIL4ZYAc6iLalln2T04OoPWmTEq0yFJUgSIVt9zd143CljGCHm3/w400-h300/IMG_6179.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were a bit tired, and we were going to have dinner with friends, so we quickly went to the Jaffa Gate – where some young people were giving a delicious Klezmer improvised concert; we enjoyed the incredible views of the area, with the city ramparts and the British Mandate constructions; had a quick bite (shawarma with very spicy hot sauce, and pomegranate juice) and went back to catch the train. And again, just in time! We got in barely two minutes before it left!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSUNrFYN-4aXVLQIHc-U2wOZti2ecCHiG9daCJLH1aY1IKSQAH8z0vuxMl3kljpQyjSthTwzwkAeTFnKD4xjQdx_aKz3ULxhMwhRszF-0tb9fWaYmu6u2DUngwnV_Uxfwu9WJCEF67wBiw6zx6iNJWNP9Ca6PeHIZsx_zFqdioX4JP1EpmBba2Blj4TMr/s4032/IMG_6186.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPSUNrFYN-4aXVLQIHc-U2wOZti2ecCHiG9daCJLH1aY1IKSQAH8z0vuxMl3kljpQyjSthTwzwkAeTFnKD4xjQdx_aKz3ULxhMwhRszF-0tb9fWaYmu6u2DUngwnV_Uxfwu9WJCEF67wBiw6zx6iNJWNP9Ca6PeHIZsx_zFqdioX4JP1EpmBba2Blj4TMr/w400-h300/IMG_6186.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4JCoqjfurEUUtQ76wLFWCfFu4q4ZtvK-aRRiIUvqNVH8WTdRg5s64UfzvBmNHr26BygATvS8Rl4MmX3-FgEpcNrTrmXX1QM4v3q8qjRX7G5SID1BSqL7zq5pe_wtivv6zAv4Dsa_xa7u6zhKPnLxOYgcVuSfDSxvFCZJcUUTV0mqDJ8Gs7p6MqbAtkUL/s4032/IMG_6188.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4JCoqjfurEUUtQ76wLFWCfFu4q4ZtvK-aRRiIUvqNVH8WTdRg5s64UfzvBmNHr26BygATvS8Rl4MmX3-FgEpcNrTrmXX1QM4v3q8qjRX7G5SID1BSqL7zq5pe_wtivv6zAv4Dsa_xa7u6zhKPnLxOYgcVuSfDSxvFCZJcUUTV0mqDJ8Gs7p6MqbAtkUL/w400-h300/IMG_6188.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKt9jJFlkEZAe0sCMajFNDCeSASJ8VFoznUEPOS86EBEvS4QiPe0eDNlNhp4pkRGGS2Nkl5nPYIWZzU_oFXYzX-WGUYftvosDgaIhAvRqxWwwS0TqhO2hAj6Lxp0jA-G5bP0-75lqlDzY_zaNxGpOgkMP27QA1RGEj-cRkWyBEP7uc1AxTPmOxQ-sWqOg/s4032/IMG_6191.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKt9jJFlkEZAe0sCMajFNDCeSASJ8VFoznUEPOS86EBEvS4QiPe0eDNlNhp4pkRGGS2Nkl5nPYIWZzU_oFXYzX-WGUYftvosDgaIhAvRqxWwwS0TqhO2hAj6Lxp0jA-G5bP0-75lqlDzY_zaNxGpOgkMP27QA1RGEj-cRkWyBEP7uc1AxTPmOxQ-sWqOg/w300-h400/IMG_6191.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What a fantastic decision to go to Jerusalem today. Just wonderful.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2nd entry</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After resting a bit and recharging my phone, I went downstairs for a bottle of cava to take to our friends’ dinner, and to enjoy a free cocktail at Bushwick, courtesy of our hotel! I had one called Bite Out, with Courvoisier VS Cognac, Appleton 12 Rum, and salt & coffee beans tincture. It was the bartender’s recommendation, and it was absolutely perfect! </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7IkC80EAaII79G3SVsqtb4361VxVPHLSr_JkILgr6GF_YSUW6wrJrrgXc8jWz9wtMr9UULqZYtAYviOR11qO6SV7U5Mc1PwE0D1QoMLzdSmKu86GaXEc4Inrmle_KJwBpzZcvkWWircalqPUq3XxVEgumbzVbDGBc7T8eHCfP_leaW_OalnK04B3UHhi/s4032/IMG_6221.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7IkC80EAaII79G3SVsqtb4361VxVPHLSr_JkILgr6GF_YSUW6wrJrrgXc8jWz9wtMr9UULqZYtAYviOR11qO6SV7U5Mc1PwE0D1QoMLzdSmKu86GaXEc4Inrmle_KJwBpzZcvkWWircalqPUq3XxVEgumbzVbDGBc7T8eHCfP_leaW_OalnK04B3UHhi/w400-h300/IMG_6221.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The habibi came down soon, had his own cocktail, and soon our friend was nearby with his car to take us home for dinner! And what a dinner it was. Our artist friend is a German Jew who moved here decades ago. Her partner is a Baghdadi Jew. And we had an amazing dinner with mostly Iraqi dishes, including Kubbeh Adom, with the softest of meat and beets. So good! And dessert? Homemade cheesecake! Plus, interesting conversations on how people dealt with Holocaust stories soon after the foundation of Israel, about the meaning of Butoh and whether non-Japanese can perform it truly (I was firmly on the “Of course!” camp, using contemporary dance and Jazz as examples of art that didn’t belong to an ethnic group), about origins and food…</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a lovely evening. What a chance meeting thanks to Butoh. And… I ended up with a gift! For my birthday! One of the pieces I had praised at our friend’s studio! It was too much, I tried to refuse. But a gift is a gift. Such a beautiful gesture, and such a beautiful couple, both. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhL8-O2-2ZGNM207xPi3sdJ_gWA544nZTU326AiD7bqz9dugLYUW7W9lixw_xUiB6AfSCVvjWGsRU2Dgw_C1SiG3ANKgh3-4i9MBXqzI1Bd8dPLB2EqG9odbwx6Jxo2h6bHXXkXBT_e01dOjRESnWJZGfxVSZqcDC4v3jF2IcXeWgQZYzYjlXTnJE-5j1/s4032/IMG_6223.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwhL8-O2-2ZGNM207xPi3sdJ_gWA544nZTU326AiD7bqz9dugLYUW7W9lixw_xUiB6AfSCVvjWGsRU2Dgw_C1SiG3ANKgh3-4i9MBXqzI1Bd8dPLB2EqG9odbwx6Jxo2h6bHXXkXBT_e01dOjRESnWJZGfxVSZqcDC4v3jF2IcXeWgQZYzYjlXTnJE-5j1/w300-h400/IMG_6223.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiciWVeSQy4jVqWkEeq2hK2KvxVswy1IicxJby7opTHtvy5hcFdVxwAEL2Gf2pRMrnrE1yxKWtNr0g6Tym4cyMYOsCSveZogjUBXx-pgMc-WlfnUolhkgGIkCsemlxtj0wJGDOGFKDzC1XW2TetmXlfE6F2Z_EDtaU3jLDPEwbX4bm1gwoAjPrkQCD7qZA/s4032/IMG_6224.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiciWVeSQy4jVqWkEeq2hK2KvxVswy1IicxJby7opTHtvy5hcFdVxwAEL2Gf2pRMrnrE1yxKWtNr0g6Tym4cyMYOsCSveZogjUBXx-pgMc-WlfnUolhkgGIkCsemlxtj0wJGDOGFKDzC1XW2TetmXlfE6F2Z_EDtaU3jLDPEwbX4bm1gwoAjPrkQCD7qZA/w400-h300/IMG_6224.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="text-align: left;" /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxiqUth-VzHmBbhqcWLbkO0bAnLJgSQdze_XDAGwtPAVZFH4VwyFQchuaxGKqxpqqc8OFmYpVXY62J1bR-_7pgypzDIUx_YmWS0h3BMtspfwT-RmR4RHZhzGtX81cjfLjDnRz1ZiRvRZBqNVIdlVtrZ0BVT8VORERrVSWUDsq07cQZJIK8MyTOh67G1pF/s4032/IMG_6226.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJxiqUth-VzHmBbhqcWLbkO0bAnLJgSQdze_XDAGwtPAVZFH4VwyFQchuaxGKqxpqqc8OFmYpVXY62J1bR-_7pgypzDIUx_YmWS0h3BMtspfwT-RmR4RHZhzGtX81cjfLjDnRz1ZiRvRZBqNVIdlVtrZ0BVT8VORERrVSWUDsq07cQZJIK8MyTOh67G1pF/w400-h300/IMG_6226.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now, time to sleep. We’re going to Jerusalem tomorrow again!</span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
<a href="http://chaibythefjord.blogspot.ca">chai by the fjord</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jerusalem, Israel31.768319 35.213713.4580851638211563 0.057459999999998956 60.078552836178844 70.369959999999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4329924641715239133.post-40470866419945970212023-10-21T18:00:00.051+08:002023-10-21T18:00:00.158+08:0050 in Tel Aviv, day 5<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Originally written October <span style="color: #333333; white-space-collapse: preserve;">1st</span></i></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-df8aa0d7-7fff-7837-f517-105e102c2bfe"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>1st entry</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Breakfast – today I had halva! And babka. I mean, it’s Sunday, right? Though for Israel Sundays are like Mondays. But it is a holiday. Anyhow, halva and babka for breakfast, yay!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4NZxuhWvtWboa3Z5Xo3MuXJvLCJp2m_4wUhVDNAA7DXpiut07iniZMWHobtIlbmPngWnQBcC7gXRTTdcoeAubpd2g6LOnPMLRTKCPjgldlRdfpLU7L2kPVq8w4g_Ut8LGusg9qre6HVFjjbq5bPwVZbFOHKU2tCY9ADfuOc3fkiUaOEj-mTBAGSI8dPy/s4032/IMG_6004.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4NZxuhWvtWboa3Z5Xo3MuXJvLCJp2m_4wUhVDNAA7DXpiut07iniZMWHobtIlbmPngWnQBcC7gXRTTdcoeAubpd2g6LOnPMLRTKCPjgldlRdfpLU7L2kPVq8w4g_Ut8LGusg9qre6HVFjjbq5bPwVZbFOHKU2tCY9ADfuOc3fkiUaOEj-mTBAGSI8dPy/w400-h300/IMG_6004.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, we began our explorations of Neve Tzedek, essentially the oldest part of what would become Tel Aviv, but which in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was just a suburb of Jaffa called Ahuzat Bayit. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1WxPTdYZ-AtdXUna2ylZ5GXbdAXRLRtWIbE0K4rMHPn2y1iTAFj_e8j0TyTgwxfkzXgcmEE_jrFKus8rn72lWg7HfkB-Raviij9G64a_2dgJ42JwJ7TQ0ob7EheglZVhr7pnK0VCcnGGc6mL5MdoEa-mOoGigK5csFiOu_leyV1AD_AtQuWjHFaVEIpK/s4032/IMG_6005.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz1WxPTdYZ-AtdXUna2ylZ5GXbdAXRLRtWIbE0K4rMHPn2y1iTAFj_e8j0TyTgwxfkzXgcmEE_jrFKus8rn72lWg7HfkB-Raviij9G64a_2dgJ42JwJ7TQ0ob7EheglZVhr7pnK0VCcnGGc6mL5MdoEa-mOoGigK5csFiOu_leyV1AD_AtQuWjHFaVEIpK/w400-h300/IMG_6005.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We saw more examples of Bauhaus from the 1920s, but also of eclectic architecture, like the Eden Cinema (loved the lettering!), some houses, a building in “Templar” style (the Neve Schechter Centre) with a café that’s been in use since the late 19th century! We had a lemonade, some salad... We have to survive the heat somehow, you know?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfwPztQmkSRbOsHVtZGshx6jRrCQ2_SLEbxX0JqvZwn0_YscRejhbs73C_6DBBe74EHd7mX20Y_zXNwixgi42y9yGqEHKWshasxhztc_loNLQo1Bxk8ix_oVAX3CpbvI_kw8xIAdVa1KEI8qOZ-h1bUxAp5qd9-tTciv0Gec6Un-cAinJ-Khe6nUnZdrN/s4032/IMG_6009.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfwPztQmkSRbOsHVtZGshx6jRrCQ2_SLEbxX0JqvZwn0_YscRejhbs73C_6DBBe74EHd7mX20Y_zXNwixgi42y9yGqEHKWshasxhztc_loNLQo1Bxk8ix_oVAX3CpbvI_kw8xIAdVa1KEI8qOZ-h1bUxAp5qd9-tTciv0Gec6Un-cAinJ-Khe6nUnZdrN/w400-h300/IMG_6009.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We saw Park HaMesila, which used to be an old Ottoman railroad, and also the Aharon Chelouche House, now the Shlush Synagoge, and which was the first house built by Jews outside the walled city of Jaffa! Essentially, the very beginning of Tel Aviv!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually, so many of the buildings on our walk told us about this history of Tel Aviv that started in the 19th century, way, way before the creation of Israel in 1948! Fascinating.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyMbDSWjjxFKBkke8UZ4XkfieBaxfvIHTk7Jl2QbfugebTjZofkrVLddCm_s7EAXVnNsQUC26VxeCoNxZ7gLGFp-fQxkphDsh7oVmI4EOd4YJkuYbWu4jIttNkb33VoryFmOrsoHQon77sPtZTFl_xzt53fHOUN52fEIx2zO0oJ0td-OOr5VcLOuBhhgk/s4032/IMG_6021.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHyMbDSWjjxFKBkke8UZ4XkfieBaxfvIHTk7Jl2QbfugebTjZofkrVLddCm_s7EAXVnNsQUC26VxeCoNxZ7gLGFp-fQxkphDsh7oVmI4EOd4YJkuYbWu4jIttNkb33VoryFmOrsoHQon77sPtZTFl_xzt53fHOUN52fEIx2zO0oJ0td-OOr5VcLOuBhhgk/w400-h300/IMG_6021.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1F6S7PKCuL_bJ-esUIlSCqP_qdsqZLNJ_qBIyof21G19ZUpiN1CPLTziA7f8KoWa3TURE2dG1LgGh84feAOtKMzcCYRaPZ2tCzWZcgNyaMfI8n7aVNjEiCdwo-SISX7hiTrQOqbuIR1hjRDVKP7QozmoVKCmQ7MTdYVdfYYMDG1qQTt0P3RorH-Q2hceu/w400-h300/IMG_6036.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From this area, we were supposed to go explore the area of Florentin. But we decided to leave that for later and instead head to the Carmel Market. And what a surprise! I was afraid it could be an overly organized and curated, expensive affair. But nope, not at all! It was a nicely bustly chaotic colourful mix of shops of all kinds, including – and most importantly – food! </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw so many spices, vegetables, sandwiches in pita bread, in challah bread… sweets of all kinds… My only problem is that I could have only reasonably had a bit of each, but how do you buy a single square of pomegranate and pistachio Turkish delight? </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the end, we did share a falafel pita sandwich, a Druze sandwich (with zaatar and labneh! OMG!), a delicious IPA by Jem’s (at a small bar where the Israeli owner and a British tourist chatted us up, and where the owner in the end gave us a shot of ice-cold arak!), and bought a cover for bread for Shabbat and a cute kippah!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIDAkfQT_33GABRKFeTj2Ip08BhP3-PjZtnOHYB8cJatcPPLCH1m93AATbhLBwnfSlBdwlGaVEqu3GSFPKxCyHX6TcxWAb957dAJIGvuBSwYRCr0tu6yBNNpoEIJSXhwqW_cqpcBuKxXfBCaKU58tmqCovU_HlYOk5WdFbrma_NewP3kvoQSQmZlK8pOH3/s4032/IMG_6038.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKXF-xufhAf8x_kB5u1r9j0stDtvzEnPzHvsdygmaKWdBBVvkvFZAwRYq6x39V_otBG9D8BVWPdUE4leeKAn10DtPchRYvA-wtpIjlOROlu5sfRnItFWpiLdL_3-Q9nowsrtFtDJs06Cgqr9-6OBFV4Cy5yIf9JNDmvk0hYyPgEvCuDWo8fS6yOlWMnfh/w300-h400/IMG_6053.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD9QxODEiaj90NVWPLu5PoeevnH9heTA9lgtOJNKQalAAy9jK_fdvd5bqHyb8TG6cAC3k0XLx0Bkduyh_Ewz0n1jjAy1TN13twt71c4L8_eqmF2QelAFe5gopvQnQiKCklr00VTm_qNF3WEZy8PW81dEyzypFpUqzOhwirWFw3tT96FJSCqg43prgdgtAC/s4032/IMG_6057.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD9QxODEiaj90NVWPLu5PoeevnH9heTA9lgtOJNKQalAAy9jK_fdvd5bqHyb8TG6cAC3k0XLx0Bkduyh_Ewz0n1jjAy1TN13twt71c4L8_eqmF2QelAFe5gopvQnQiKCklr00VTm_qNF3WEZy8PW81dEyzypFpUqzOhwirWFw3tT96FJSCqg43prgdgtAC/w400-h300/IMG_6057.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That should have been enough. But I still wanted a look at the Yemenite Quarter (Kerem). It’s just where Yemenite Jews tended to move into, but there’s no real historic building or important spot to visit. It’s more about the experience of the small, winding streets, and the numerous eateries (including Humusiyas and Yemenite restaurants)! Oh, and that’s where we had another Israeli beer, at Beer Factory. It’s so nice to finally spot places with good craft Israeli beer!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWsH07uyg8D2XiHWKaLuX5RF2aclBH_mwG4eJ9U6Z9wd6uKcU_UaKFX1JeGz0xrG5Mj3pLwjTR8QCdcw1pQAh6r5QYiq5OFq4yyNcm2joTa57T6a4eVZv4BZdlqAidkJN_3nAYQazyMsLAlB1rNcyJS87fMpOE_J6CnOXZG0zEa0BGpqo8_LUnatMZNuD/s4032/IMG_6060.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZWsH07uyg8D2XiHWKaLuX5RF2aclBH_mwG4eJ9U6Z9wd6uKcU_UaKFX1JeGz0xrG5Mj3pLwjTR8QCdcw1pQAh6r5QYiq5OFq4yyNcm2joTa57T6a4eVZv4BZdlqAidkJN_3nAYQazyMsLAlB1rNcyJS87fMpOE_J6CnOXZG0zEa0BGpqo8_LUnatMZNuD/w400-h300/IMG_6060.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOOEcrDIz4HvEIu6aEcTsXAylaxKF2D9DcZgy-ssAhhMKDb8PkzFIyJFFH3BW_W1tlmgBI1lxIHBp4F8m9id6z25bvfknrwYdSTAF3bs2vlTbEWAEANCZWDlWDL9xZjy9LO7kGdX1-pHYS3n9T2GruQhr8g4doqQ65j5QZeSMe3BosdBNuUpFNf21nXZc/s4032/IMG_6063.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOOEcrDIz4HvEIu6aEcTsXAylaxKF2D9DcZgy-ssAhhMKDb8PkzFIyJFFH3BW_W1tlmgBI1lxIHBp4F8m9id6z25bvfknrwYdSTAF3bs2vlTbEWAEANCZWDlWDL9xZjy9LO7kGdX1-pHYS3n9T2GruQhr8g4doqQ65j5QZeSMe3BosdBNuUpFNf21nXZc/w400-h300/IMG_6063.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that was plenty. Because we had gone to the gym in the morning. And we did spend a good 5-6 hours exploring!</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>2nd entry</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We had to have dinner. But we were a bit full from the Carmel sandwiches. So we decided to leave Yemenite fare for another day and went to Herzl St for… pizza! At Pizzot. Not amazing, but quite proper. And just what I needed. And since we were in the area, I convinced the habibi to walk to Florentin, with the promise of ice cream. LOL.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, the area is curious. There are many Modernist buildings. Like. A lot. This whole area must have looked very interesting when new. As for the place, many restaurants, bars, some graffiti… We’ve still to find a Kotti-like (that's my favourite Berlin neighbourhood to hang out) queer alternative area, but maybe the city is not big enough for that? Or we need to explore more? But the ice cream we did reach – Anita. Berlin, you have to up your ice cream game! But at least Berlin offers good beer at every corner, though.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisffYHaBreBtrNDcNuz0-bcoen1hDLSSrMaYjF03dSuswKOsUmnBejPdnUgq_ZErPCSNZ8OlbPHbSz0VvJyBLAAp2cypdxvthOObmw8DUpvjCC4njLp4VB8VcF58rjAPEzVf7G-7EE0fKAEOg3RSe3TNUjS9xGAZORgCDmnvx_0fQX-R1uHS0W0TvDg5Kx/s4032/IMG_6074.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisffYHaBreBtrNDcNuz0-bcoen1hDLSSrMaYjF03dSuswKOsUmnBejPdnUgq_ZErPCSNZ8OlbPHbSz0VvJyBLAAp2cypdxvthOObmw8DUpvjCC4njLp4VB8VcF58rjAPEzVf7G-7EE0fKAEOg3RSe3TNUjS9xGAZORgCDmnvx_0fQX-R1uHS0W0TvDg5Kx/w400-h300/IMG_6074.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And that was our day. I still attempted to go to a nearby bar where there was supposed to be a show. Of course, I arrived on time for the show, only to see the place was empty. These people love starting really late! And tomorrow we’re going to Jerusalem, so I’m most definitely not going to party later tonight!</span></span></p></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><hr />
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