Phoenixxx

This is Berlin. Being there for a week gives me the impression that it is constantly being updated and renovated and a small, dog-accompanied few prefer and hold on to the rest. The state actually pays you a special assistance if you have a dog, according to some girl I met, and there are plenty of other systems that help out the people that hold on so tightly to the dry rot and waning city structures..

So we walked around near the Brandenburg Gate and saw the Jewish memorial maze in the afternoon, with the sun shadows twisting and making the stones wave up and down and I started to feel like this is what it must be like to be in a place overcrowded with people, each as confused as you as to why you are there. I didn't take any pictures.

There are fantastically lighter parts of Berlin and my experience involved us three hanging out in various parks around town, drinking good beer that John picked out for me and eating curryfries. Katharina is a goddess. A bit strange, with tons of projects in her apartment that made it inviting and safe, wonderful creature comforts..this is where I slept, and yes that is Baloo.