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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Touring and Eating our Way Through Berlin


We have just returned from a short trip to Berlin. A friend needed to travel there for work and it was a perfect chance to meet up with her for a visit and tour the city we had not visited in 20 years. We took a bus tour when we arrived to get a feel for the city. We walked around many of the different areas visiting chocolate shops, teestubes, and the grand department store KaDeWe. We had great food, eating in what are considered Berlin institutions. We went to the Pergamon and technical museums. The weather was kind. It was a great trip.
We spent several days in Berlin in 1989 shortly after the Wall came down. It is amazing to see the changes to the city especially all the new (and on-going) building that has taken place in the interim.

1 comment:

Travel-PB said...

I see you have put quite some time in exploring the best things Europe has to offer. A variety of different delicious foods is definitely one of those things.
France alone offers so many things to try, a lifetime is too short for all of them.
If you are planning sailing in the warmer months I strongly recommend Corsica.
Well I liked it a lot!
If you are interested, you can read a couple of posts about my experience there on my blog:
photo-blogging.blogspot.com.

Another place a bit further from you but definitely worth sailing through, is Croatia. I am pretty sure you already know all of that, but I guess it can't hurt to tell you again. ;)

Have fun and keep blogging!