In case you forgot, yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall fall.
There was some uber-great coverage on NYT with which I was enraptured...
So happy for them and all the rest of the former USSR...not to be trite, but really, they've come so far.
Danke for letting me indulge myself by posting some Deutschland pictures.
(It's on my (very long) list of places I want to live.)
Relics of a dark era, Sachsenhaussen Concentration camp, just outside Berlin.
Arbeit Macht Frei - "Work Will Set You Free." The gate all prisoners passed through.
We probably walked around for 4 hours with our audio guides...
Call me a masochist or a born history junkie, but I had been looking forward to going to a concentration camp since oh, about kindergarten (maybe not that young, but I couldn't stop myself from using another Germanic word hehe). 
I'm glad Andrzej (below) agreed with me about the necessity of such an experience...
this was the plaque at the front of where the gas chambers are.
Still wanting to hit Auschwitz in Poland...who's coming with?!Bike riding through the East German country...
Potsdam.
An uber-cute town, and of course, where this happened.
The compound with the old and new castles reminded me a lot of Mount Vernon/Williamsburg, Virginia, actually...
And just for giggles...
Germans are neurotically hygienic, which I love...and I would: back in the day (when I was about 4), I told my mom I could not continue my ballet career because I couldn't stop thinking about how unsanitary the "public" barre was.
I think I was the only one who noticed-slash-was a little amused that we stayed on 'Karl Marx Allee' a couple nights. Don't worry, mom, East Berlin is totally safe now!
(The only time when I wish I were a man: so I could travel wherever I wanted - solo even - without people worrying about me.)
