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Memorial outside the Jewish cemetery
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Getting oriented
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Bode Museum (Museum Island)
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Cheeeeese!
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Archers!
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Brandenburg Gate
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Checkpoint Charlie
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Allied checkpoint
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Berlin Wall
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Berlin Wall Monument across from "Topography of Terror"
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Berlin Wall
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"To: Astrid, Maybe Someday We Will Be Together"
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Pork knuckles, potatoes and sauerkraut
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Currywurst is a delcious German fastfood item: pork sausage generously covered in spicy ketchup and augmented by curry powder. Both times we ordered it, it came with a crusty bread roll on the side.
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Jude rocking on an elephant at a playground in Tiergarten (a city park in central Berlin)
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Jude in playhouse at playground in Tiergarten
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More fun in Tiergarten
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Siegessäule, a monument in the middle of Tiergarten
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Protest at the Brandenburg Gate (an awesome breakdancing performance was also going down just to the north of the protesters)
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Construction along Leipzier as we approached Potsdamer Platz (Potsdamer Square)
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Patrick and Jude under giant Lego giraffe (we didn't go in the Legoland Discovery Centre, which charges an exorbitant 16 Euros per visitor)
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Sony Center, Potsdamer Platz
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Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (German Resistance Memorial Centre). German military men who plotted to kill Hitler were executed in this square (Tom Cruise made a movie about these events several years back; we didn't see it).
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Jude playing trains with Lucy, his grandmother's first cousin, who lives in Berlin and invited us over for a delicious lamb dinner
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Getting ready to buy mushrooms at the farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg, the trendy neighborhood (a lot like Brooklyn Heights) where we are staying in Berlin
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Mushrooms!
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Juice stand at the Prenzlauer Berg farmers market
