Berlin’s Museum Island sounds like the world’s lamest amusement park, unless you’re me. Five world-renowned museums, 18 Euro, one afternoon. Two words: Challenge. Accepted. The Museuminsel (in German) is an “island” in the middle of the …
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18 Euro, 5 Museums, 1 Afternoon
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While I was visiting my aunt outside of Frankfurt, I saw a tiniest glimpse of the music video for BOY’s Fear on a German music countdown. A week later I was in Salzburg dancing in the …
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The Memorial
I waffled between thinking it was appropriately abstract and inappropriately non-specific. There’s nothing Jewish about it. I still haven’t settled on whether that’s ok or not. It’s half maze, half graveyard. The rectangular slabs are gray, cold, …
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Einstein on the Rocks
Pictures from a textbook, instead of a song, inspired a bumpy afternoon train ride from Berlin to Potsdam, Germany. There, Erich Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower in English) rises (a little phallically) from the quiet, leafy campus of …
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Love Locked Down
I went to Cologne (Köln from here on out, so I can practice my German) because of this song by Donovan Woods that I’ve been listening to regularly for over a year now. It’s a star player …
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A Castle with a Cool Aunt
After I said a sad good-bye to the Emerald Isle, I spent a few days with my aunt and Oma in Germany, just outside of Frankfurt. After almost 5 weeks on my own, it was so nice …
