We decided we do not like German pickles. Sadly. Senfgurken (the big yellowish things) should be 'mustard pickles,' but we're not sure quite what they are. Any ideas?
We stumbled upon some sort of soccer event (or as they call it here, 'NFL' event). People were wearing green, others were wearing red, and all of them seemed to be yelling. And drunk. It wasn't clear whether the game had happened already or not, or where it was taking place. But there was a cool church:
And Colin really liked this street. Probably because of the pavement.
My guess for the soccer event:
ReplyDeleteRecently was the pan-European finals, Barcelona (green) versus Manchester (red). It seemed that people all across Europe picked sides, got drunk, and became hooligans, even if they actually dont' care about either team, or even have any real ties to either country. For example: there were riots in Rome, in which a random American tourist who didn't know soccer from futbol, who was accidentally wearing red, was beaten by Italians rooting for Barcelona. I mean, I can see an Italian-Spain connection, or even a US-England connection, but reality was some Italians looking for an excuse to get supremely drunk and watch soccer and then beat up anyone wearing the Manchester colors.
Isn't that the church in Berlin that was spared bombing from the Allies? It looks really familiar, but I might be confusing it for a similar looking church somewhere else in Germany.
The East Germans didnt' do much to upkeep their architecture. It looked like it was falling down about two seconds after they put it up.