Hanging out with Bertold

The weather this week in Berlin has been a big disappointment. With the exception of yesterday (July 1st), it's been cold and rainy. Susan and I actually bought jackets yesterday. Today we slept in and then we visited the Topography of Terror, which has been improved since last year! First of all, there's a new chronological exhibition that runs the length of the Gestapo-foundation ruins that covers the events in Berlin between 1933 and the present. There's also an exhibition commemorating the trial of Adolf Eichmann in the documentation center. There's no way I'm going to take another student group to Berlin without taking them to the Topography site.

The rain really put a "damper" on things (har har) and Susan and I spent a few hours at the Berliner Republic restaurant along the Schiffbauerdamm (next to the Berliner Ensemble theater). I got a photo with Brecht as well.