https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog daily 1.0 2019-10-30 https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/30/potpourri monthly 0.5 2019-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572451397901-4I1TWHIX04PMIBB4G6UW/IMG_2789.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri The Knoblauch family dealt in cloth. Their house was built in the 1700’s and is preserved today as a museum. Clavier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572452008574-2FMLW20XBTIFF91L6OFW/IMG_2791.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri Humboldt died in this bed, but not in the Knoblauch house. Don’t ask. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572452089906-UZG24TCZBDSXEV28EDRY/IMG_4857.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri Mural art is popular in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572452164614-98YZCFH49KIM57G87PDZ/IMG_4726.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572452227793-SQ1RYE89J51VNCAAGMT7/IMG_5146.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572452258875-ZSV6VOZK7TJQS98F8P28/IMG_4727.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri In Prenzlauer Berg, our Kiez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572453230026-8ICS3ERQ2E22VHICZR23/IMG_4816%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572453285276-6E163IRCIMOGV9CPB1B7/IMG_5148.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri A good friend at home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572453356030-E87Q8FROJBM7GCKVM5W9/IMG_3833%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri Where did you see this before? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572456435896-GJOM1GSB9ZAZP2CS3OYI/IMG_5147.JPG Bummel Blog - Potpourri Traute Lafrenz, M.D., now one hundred years old and living in South Carolina, was a member of the White Rose, which sought to combat the Nazi regimen. She was to be tried and executed but on April 16, 1945 she was liberated by the Americans. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/28/berlin-bunker-museum monthly 0.5 2019-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572256324815-97IU704W7KP1TT8PPK6R/IMG_5135.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum The museum provides a detailed account of Hitler’s rise to power and fall. This is one of the most researched periods in history. Leaving the museum after five hours, Ingrid was demoralized because so little has seemed to have changed in the world and ruthless dictators are still coming to power. In 1940, Hitler ordered the construction of bunkers when the allies began bombing German cities. The museum contains facsimiles of some of the rooms of his own bunker, which has been completely demolished, though pictures of its rooms, taken both by American and Russian soldiers, are displayed here. The evidence of his suicide is indisputable, but some people still believe he escaped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572256917954-V9J1JJPB0TABLK2HUB8V/IMG_5138.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum Replica of Hitler’s bunker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572256964653-QIO767K05R294WPUHN9H/IMG_5139.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum Facsimile of the room in which he and Eva Braun committed suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572257051984-YURYZMNQLILUBMICBP63/IMG_5136.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum The museum itself is a bunker. During one of the air raids 12,000 people were crammed in to escape the bombing. When, to hinder the advance of Russian troops, the SS blew up the bulkheads to the Landwehr Canal to flood subway tunnels, this bunker was also flooded. Many died trying to escape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572258160876-DFCL3V2IANZF96O83IVD/IMG_5137.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum A bomb shell before an enlarged photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572258298597-YZPWE9T67XYOAJUYQ7BT/IMG_5145.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum Brother and Sister, Hans and Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) created the White Rose resistance movement. They were discovered and executed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572258406121-J2ICEBKPIEE1655FLQA7/IMG_5144.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Bunker Museum Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb brought into a meeting. He was arrested and execute. The Scholls and von Stauffenberg are among the very few who put up resistance against the NAZI regime, https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/26/berggruen-museum monthly 0.5 2019-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572105925112-AJ0WB2296QLOX4SR3QHZ/IMG_5112.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Charlottenburg Palace. Built at end of 17th century. Commissioned by Sophie Charlotte, the wife of Friedrich the 1st. (Not Friedrich the Great.) The palace was across the street from the Berggruen Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106364070-D3MTUW10KWFPX6QMH2AB/IMG_2767.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) Blue Nude Skipping 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106489337-KG01W98FYINFN08KIJQF/IMG_5120.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Matisse. A study for a poster. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106593471-K1WFUFMOSV0RX7EH33IS/IMG_5119.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Matisse. Room with Blue Portfolio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106658624-5U66R4UJ4DO26MPCOCUD/IMG_5118.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Alberto Giacometti 1901-1966 (Swiss sculptor and painter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106844023-MLVPUVSKXH7M1XZHNIRL/IMG_2770.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) Little Mobile (with reflection of the photographer by design) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572106984516-LQTRELNTWK5LJFLQ1NZA/IMG_5126.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Paul Klee 1899 - 1940. Over Under https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107146491-MGWOT4P9EPTCUNY2IL6Q/IMG_5122.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Klee 1927 Party from G. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107418010-IHMPR8LEOEGC1F5MG5CP/IMG_2771.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Glass and Dice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107530418-MML9LRH2DRIKHLWPS3K4/IMG_2773.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso. 1916 Cards, Glass, and Bottle on a Table https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107619656-E7QPJZSBAYQLTBZ77U69/IMG_2777.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso. Dora Maar with Green Fingernails. 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107693093-AD2JZBZOOU4HU4RVHPIL/IMG_5114.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso Harlequin with Red Background 1905 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107794181-NJZWX29IEDXV842UBD2Q/IMG_5129.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso. Nude. 1922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572107851631-06TESPOF09T9BQF7188B/IMG_5132.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso. Woman in Yellow Sweater 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1572108023259-0I7GQHNZQXC6RI0KYBGP/IMG_5134.JPG Bummel Blog - Berggruen Museum Picasso. Matador and Nude 1970 https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/25/altes-national-museum-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994152090-FDCIJYJFXXDNNLMO2VW7/IMG_5077.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994196120-8COEKAQT00F0PCBYIAUJ/IMG_5080.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Carl Schuch. Still Life with Apples. 1876 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994244840-NOKHEZ7V52XF5T3T2ZWD/IMG_5085.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Carl Spitzweg . circa 1860 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994340848-KUL5EWZDP3JMYWA23TSV/IMG_5089.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Flax Barn at Laren. Max Lieberman. 1887 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994596358-M75UUWEDJADQAHA1HYNU/IMG_2759.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Max Klinger. Aphrodite 1885 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994702030-F4J4FANQ98DNSW5M5A2U/IMG_5090.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Max Lieberman. Kleinkinderschule in Amsterdam. 1880 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994786899-VZHP4W9AH78MQ0298CZ4/IMG_5095.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Edouard Manet. In the Greenhouse. 1879 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571994978521-EJJBUHNMQD3NIZWFPUUC/IMG_5097.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Renoir. Children’s Afternoon. 1884 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571995149429-RPH71YF6W4SYTZSWWKE4/IMG_5102.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Adolph Menzel. (1815 -1905) Circus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571995237354-H3PKCK2HKRV2TJ43LVL6/IMG_2762.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Claude Monet. Houses at Argenteuil. 1875 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571995448234-N9DI0QI25ZI17KCEIXJ1/IMG_5093.JPG Bummel Blog - Altes National Museum Berlin Rodin. The Thinker. There are 28 full-sized figures. This one is less than life size. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/25/six-kilometer-37-mile-walk-along-the-spree-from-jannowitz-bridge-to-the-hauptbahnhof monthly 0.5 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991534524-MVDP5MOIB553AR3CO6SF/IMG_5024.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Berlin TV tower. the long Lulatsch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991557865-CDVQKTMW46C49HLRCHN1/IMG_5026.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991579433-YQ8X23TIZY6DGIFPHCE4/IMG_5028.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Nikolai Church with twin peaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991606395-6OFG41QSL8HYJ8IKW31S/IMG_5034.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Mississippi has no monopoly on paddle boats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991629166-OQM43CL6222JZRBSOLDP/IMG_5035.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Three Girls and a Boy by Wilfried Fitzenreiter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991646716-S44RUMHQ8QRFJUG8Z1YE/IMG_5042.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Reichstag https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991666469-65X7RT97BQFQY2BEZGOW/IMG_5044.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Site of the following exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991685120-WLET457TUE1FVD406R67/IMG_5046.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof Micha Ullman, artist. A section of the wall. At the top is the year. Below the number of people who died that year trying to escape East Germany. Not all those listed died at the wall. The other side continues. The wall was up between 1961 and 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571991706222-SXRKLPO5C7FANHIN0P3C/IMG_5052.JPG Bummel Blog - Six kilometer (3.7 mile) walk along the Spree, from Jannowitz Bridge to the Hauptbahnhof https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/25/berlin-light-festival-celebrating-30th-anniversary-of-germanys-unification monthly 0.5 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571990652192-MLA13LGZ0Z6YJNMW7TGH/IMG_5019.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Light festival celebrating 30th anniversary of Germany's unification Hackescher Markt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571990684992-ZMMDSLOAAGG4GYGJP9X4/IMG_5023.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Light festival celebrating 30th anniversary of Germany's unification Prenzlauer Berg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571990719065-719R9W7GP2LSL7NSGQXO/IMG_5022.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Light festival celebrating 30th anniversary of Germany's unification https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571990739555-8XMUDCQTQW51B4Z1QJKQ/IMG_2748.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlin Light festival celebrating 30th anniversary of Germany's unification Langer Lulatsch. Berlin TV tower https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/25/sans-souci-without-worry-frederich-the-greats-summer-palace-2nd-visit monthly 0.5 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571987753532-GCYW6TSV0SJEYPJH313J/IMG_5018%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci. (without worry) Frederich the Great's Summer Palace. (2nd visit) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571987824611-LI89Z7ECKZUEHFN7XA5I/83fjUpYBT669gwCu%EF%BF%BDVc7hA.jpg Bummel Blog - Sans Souci. (without worry) Frederich the Great's Summer Palace. (2nd visit) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571987959452-U15NRLDSAMCY5WMQ7TZZ/KolZu%2BNvRQSu2MXvdoeh0A.jpg Bummel Blog - Sans Souci. (without worry) Frederich the Great's Summer Palace. (2nd visit) During the construction of Sans Souci palace, Frederich wanted this windmill removed, but the farmer who owned it petitioned the king, citing the king’s own laws of fairness. Frederich agreed to leave the windmill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571988282402-P9Q7T9RO25YBBLZKTGJJ/IMG_5104.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci. (without worry) Frederich the Great's Summer Palace. (2nd visit) A painting by Menzel of a concert at Sans Souci with King Frederich himself playing the flute. His favorite sister sits on the pink sofa in the back ground. (I & P saw this room, but neither had a flute with them.) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/23/glienicke-bridge-bride-of-spies monthly 0.5 2019-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571820453661-ZRWYA3QANLNGHFWG1PA9/IMG_4996.JPG Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies The white line on the map was the iron curtain. Until November 10, 1989, at 6 pm, Europe and Germany were divided. The Glienicke Bridge connected Potsdam in East Germany with West Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571820657300-IP2GE1PHPKUDTKIWZ81T/IMG_4998.JPG Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies From Potsdam facing Berlin. The bridge served as the location where spies were exchanged, as in the famous case of the downed U2 spy plane pilot, Gary Powers, and the Russian spy William Fischer, aka Rudolf Abel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571821025307-5WHC4UZC4O7D1PLLE2YL/LNBQz4CYQhOvDJ%EF%BF%BD3Py0Mkg.jpg Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies Notice the spy in the back ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571821202847-OGALWRP8POO6JFEP020J/rqQv5abfTj6DLWEturuSjg.jpg Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571821279630-0ZIBKFYPR2OXU73RDU6B/IMG_5008.JPG Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies “Glienicke Bridge. To those who named it the Bridge of Unity but also built the wall, topped it with barbed wire, created deadly boundaries, and thus prevented unity.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571821621888-GJH4LQUYRGH8991H7UNV/IMG_5016.JPG Bummel Blog - Glienicke Bridge. Bridge of Spies Lake Havel. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/21/friends-from-amsterdam-day-one-visit-to-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571669617756-T4EOFLACLISDQXJICI5W/IMG_9352.jpg Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin Former East German side of Check Point Charlie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571669697374-HEF27VS36PNGKIZ87LV8/IMG_9355%281%29.jpg Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin In front of Brandenburg Gate. (No selfie stick was needed.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571669786297-CPZFDZJT84EJLBHKV3I5/IMG_9366.jpg Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin Among the stele at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571670010035-ENCJX5L261EOH3L88CHX/IMG_9370.jpg Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571670048644-NAZ7ESV3OSDWW40ICA9R/IMG_9371.jpg Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571670276884-FOV5HK91D0EPMKRTFGIR/IMG_9376.JPG Bummel Blog - Friends from Amsterdam Day One visit to Berlin A view of the Berliner Dom and of Museum Island https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/17/the-reichstag-and-the-bundestag monthly 0.5 2019-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571326627990-8W1LKZMIA47U1Q8MOSDW/IMG_4982.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag The Reichstag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571326670689-CC0G0K7QN8RU9E0LE52S/IMG_4983.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag The Reichtag with the new dome visible. (cupola) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571326838931-6O1WN13U8N0EQNN5IZW9/IMG_4992.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag In 1995 Christo draped the Reichtag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571326911591-WLYDDAK7FGWVPDQGYFKU/IMG_2735.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag Base of the cupola. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571326980965-CIX77THG9BXSD53O5GX0/IMG_4984.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag The dome is 80 feet high, 130 feet across, and weighs a quarter of a million pounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571327093210-5S7KM2HFW5MMCM60I16K/IMG_4990.jpg Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag Note that the dome is an open air structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571327144955-XCSUWKQX2MQEBKBL9RPK/IMG_4986.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag The Brandenburg gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571327198476-415KR1MXUNVIYRHKAYUI/IMG_4987.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag Die Spree https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571327248632-SGTQJUY3J4SLMN4O26VL/IMG_2738.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag Looking down at the base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571327287730-JUFBP8SGPC84RLYSJML3/IMG_4991.JPG Bummel Blog - The Reichstag and the Bundestag Ingrid and Peter sat in for an hour of debate on lowering speed limits to reduce greenhouse gases. Representative of the following parties spoke for five minutes each: the SPD, the FDP, the LINKE, B90/Greens, CDU/CSU, and AfD. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/15/one-day-trip-to-hannover monthly 0.5 2019-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571124802097-YF11SUJTW318UWXG4RLF/IMG_2728.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover King Ernst August of Hannover, popular meeting spot “unter dem Schwanz”. Stature in front of the train station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571124929022-LVLLISE7PIATX9U59OK0/IMG_2730.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover At the Leine river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571124994990-JSTXJIFG36AH751H2EJ4/IMG_2733.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover The old city hall. (Rathaus) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125048531-I0XZ83HJTTOAUC39TASP/IMG_4961.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover Downtown Hannover with former college roommate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125130827-7RZOF2OLCLACS1ABKRIS/IMG_4964.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover Such timbered houses (Fachwerkhaeser) were moved out of the city shortly before Hannover was bombed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125236942-A7NJRS9VFTUVQRAR1PE7/IMG_4966.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover The Maschsee (Masch lake), a man-made lake to catch the overflow when the Leine flooded. The lake bottom is covered with clay, limestone, and an 8 cm layer of gravel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125544733-3ZKVIDQ2N5GWDYZYNZC6/IMG_4974.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover Digging of the Maschsee (1934-1936) , primarily by the unemployed who had to bring their own shovels. Since the goal was to employ as many as possible, no machines were allowed. The pay was minimum. One thousand six hundred worked on the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125726819-6R72GH7OO5FW5A1L0YRW/IMG_4969.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover This plaque commemorates the digging of the Maschsee. The swastika has been removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1571125823897-UQYO5FO7M6EZ2MYMD3UQ/IMG_4965.JPG Bummel Blog - One day trip to Hannover “The Göttingen Seven were a group of seven liberal professors from Göttingen. In 1837, they protested against the abolition or alteration of the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover by its new ruler, King Ernest Augustus, and refused to swear an oath to the king. The company of seven was led by historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, who himself was one of the key advocates of the unadulterated constitution.” Wikipedia https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/13/the-world-famous-semper-opera-house-oct-11-2019-beethovens-fidelio monthly 0.5 2019-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570969049253-HPB0VALKYKK9G1P937UB/IMG_2723.JPG Bummel Blog - The World famous Semper Opera House. Oct 11, 2019. Beethoven's Fidelio Not one of the singers but note the earrings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570969111437-M7YIWDAU5OLDAV09TJY2/IMG_2725.JPG Bummel Blog - The World famous Semper Opera House. Oct 11, 2019. Beethoven's Fidelio Ingrid obtained the last two tickets to Fidelio. Seats in the fourth balcony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570969221458-7XDXWOPY3GKFJ8YOOA61/IMG_2726.JPG Bummel Blog - The World famous Semper Opera House. Oct 11, 2019. Beethoven's Fidelio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570969258846-XZWP21XPSBK2KX34MIK7/IMG_2727.JPG Bummel Blog - The World famous Semper Opera House. Oct 11, 2019. Beethoven's Fidelio One advantage is a better view of the chandelier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570969584104-ZDCZBI79MFGJ4KVHTTV6/IMG_4956.JPG Bummel Blog - The World famous Semper Opera House. Oct 11, 2019. Beethoven's Fidelio Before the opera began, former Bundespresident Joachin Gauck spoke on the 30 year anniversary of the fall of the wall between East and West Germany, warning about modern day demagogues and the threat to Democracy. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/13/der-zinger-paintings-mathematical-instruments monthly 0.5 2019-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570967580086-1XI7PWSMMPV4E5J85X4F/IMG_4941.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger. Paintings. Mathematical Instruments The Roman goddess Vesta by the Swiss artist Angelika Kauffmann, 18th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570967711175-2ZQPPQV61NWX28EVDO6N/IMG_2717.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger. Paintings. Mathematical Instruments Bernhard von Reesen by Albrecht Dürer (around 1500) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570968227122-7TCZQVCJ473EHQ7VAVCV/IMG_4954.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger. Paintings. Mathematical Instruments Planetenlaufuhr, , 1563-68, Silver, Brass, Gold Gilded, Height 118 cm (46.5 inches) Shows the orbits of the Sun, the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570968654250-48FY5YH5K8RG1RUP5LZM/IMG_4955.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger. Paintings. Mathematical Instruments An old clock mechanism showing the escapement (not visible here). The mechanism is attached to a modern clock face. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/12/der-zwinger-a-building-complex-in-dresden-housing-museums-specializing-in-porecelain-paintings-and-mathematical-instruments monthly 0.5 2019-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570901918900-5ZTXMXXD9Y25W8XD3ANQ/IMG_4918.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. In the porcelain museum. August the Strong, king of Poland (early 18th Century), passionately collected porcelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902142873-WX26PN9YUXJ3GERHFBLB/IMG_2714.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Japanese porcelain.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902256875-KYGJU8OV6WYETOD8OU8O/IMG_4904.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Chinese porcelain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902297989-3QGCXWGCX0SHKGDDEVOC/IMG_4907.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Japanese porcelain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902333076-TPJQPWZRJ9JSOXQUQDGW/IMG_4921.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Piece by Johann Joachim Kaendler. Along with Johann Christian Kirchner he was a master of porcelain creations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902673337-KPIT4HY6BHX6WORPYQXO/IMG_2716.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. A small part of the porcelain collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902718118-V080N5DBHK7K0GHDN95B/IMG_4923.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Kirchner’s porcelain animal figures are known for their human facial expressions. Kaendler, on the other hand, was a complete realist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570902829591-STGEE9RP2115NYLIU34T/IMG_4925.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Zwinger, a building complex in Dresden housing museums specializing in porecelain, paintings, and mathematical instruments. Do you find this funny? It was supposed to be. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/12/theaterplatz-dresden monthly 0.5 2019-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570900630736-ML88PYBASOYNJGON5DM2/IMG_2706.JPG Bummel Blog - Theaterplatz Dresden Theaterplatz in Dresden. Figure on horse is King Johann by Johannes Schilling 1889. (white-haired man is not Peter) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570900962358-BR58LASM6JL9FXIVP2BS/IMG_4890.JPG Bummel Blog - Theaterplatz Dresden The famous Semper Opera, designed by architect Gottfried Semper. More than a quarter million opera goers a year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570901196538-2JWNTCLS4CJ39MJP0GMO/IMG_4894.JPG Bummel Blog - Theaterplatz Dresden The Frauenkirsche in Dresden, one of the largest sandstone buildings in the world, built between 1726 and 1743, heavily bombed during WWII and destroyed. Rebuilding began in 1993, financed in part by U. S. Friends of Dresden. Recall Dresden in the site of the novel Slaughter House Five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570901796605-EOPHPJNF97VEN5C9MDIC/IMG_2709.JPG Bummel Blog - Theaterplatz Dresden Ingrid at the Elbe. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/12/itx4wzxb4g7krkqle76l236boeyo3c monthly 0.5 2019-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570900150423-5MJ4WD0TMMAEFOSMIY90/IMG_4878.JPG Bummel Blog - Berliner Schoss An old building, the Berliner Schloss (Berlin Castle) is having its facade rebuild at an 600,000 million euros, a sixth of which is being given by private donors, large and small. Peter, Ingrid and friends were given a tour. The finished building will house the Humboldt Forum a quasi-university and research center. This is a model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570900480745-5TN47MGP42NSQPEIHSMO/IMG_4880.JPG Bummel Blog - Berliner Schoss This is a cloth facade on a building which will undergo renovation. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/8/cold-war monthly 0.5 2019-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570527563201-B1CMNEBHZQJXZ68GX59N/IMG_2692.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570527598101-4DVSIV9XUJZP7S82RUY6/IMG_2691.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War Bottom: Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima. 9,700 pounds. Blast yield 15 kilotons of TNT. Top: Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki. 10,300 pounds. Blast yield 21 kilotons of TNT. ICBMs now carry thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs. ) Warheads yield blasts tens of times more powerful and can weigh as little as 800 pounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570528508729-FE1YQ19P1E5VZQKPXYBX/IMG_4869.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War May 1945, the division of Germany by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.The wall was not built until 1961. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570528614201-GMRC8Z22LENXAXOZOVLL/IMG_2693.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War During the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570528693601-MBVL1MCZQTTK8YZA45MG/IMG_4862.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War Check Point Charlie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570528711891-P2WRRKD0J38F2ZOP5T2R/IMG_4861.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570528833410-69BBKVXO60VF274KUTLW/IMG_4874.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War President Kennedy; Willy Brandt, mayor of Berlin at that time, later chancellor; Chancellor Adenauer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570529062300-7A58JUFLJ80JITQOXM8X/IMG_4863.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War Yadegar Assisi’s panorama of the wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570529113231-6EOML75QC7PSH01LLFVK/IMG_4864.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570529129349-DGF5S0IPYHCD6QBNOAGM/IMG_4865.JPG Bummel Blog - Cold War https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/7/a-walk-in-what-once-was-the-german-democratic-republic-ddr-the-eastern-part-of-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437306865-L0S1P9ATMFRZ5TS8WB8R/IMG_4840.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Marx, Engels, and friend. Notice the polished hands and knees—of the statues— where many have sat for their portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437391390-N5JXT3X7VT2ZLQRVB45M/IMG_4843.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Martin Luther. Marien Church in the background, dating to 1270. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437552509-GV51KJRKF0LH1SCT996A/IMG_4844.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Neptune fountain at Alexanderplatz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437709818-PC19CZ993RTWG89HLGBB/IMG_4846.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Beer garden. Galeria Kaufhof in the background. “In Communist times the Kaufhof Department Store was the ultimate shopping Mecca . . . “ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437957754-QJ8OTZNTWY0TLVH00JS9/IMG_4848.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Potato pancakes, almost as good as Ingrid’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570437998409-M37K79AV8ZKMJCCCBYWM/IMG_4849.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Once futuristic world time clock (built 1969) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570438093119-5IGHMVFP926LNSZXCCQC/IMG_4842.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. Tourist on the Spree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570438123292-7DI1H9WZXC7V5BDI41RM/IMG_4850.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk in what once was the German Democratic Republic (DDR), the eastern part of Berlin. McDonald’s in the subway. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/5/die-deutschstunde monthly 0.5 2019-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570343945925-07K05M8QHBJKYNWLH8P4/IMG_4828.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde The movie, only three stops away on the street car. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570344026962-KUJAQ4RCUP6Q9OE5IRF2/IMG_4836.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde Die Hackeschen Höfe. One of the commercial courtyards at the Hackescher Markt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570344189578-W1SEI3QMRE9MQ0RKTVST/IMG_4831%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570344208193-SYK9C5XFAKF2P8ZKGLGC/IMG_4832.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570344238291-4OY87N05ZZJDTGXENGQ6/IMG_4835.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde Waiting for the film to start. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570344275540-86212NJ18WB6QPXZO3C6/IMG_4830.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Deutschstunde Lenz’s world-wide best-seller now as a film. Young Siggi Jepsen must recall the conflict between his authoritarian father and the artist whose paintings have been banned by the Nazi’s. Top notch in every way: the filming, the acting, the story. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/4/the-artist-heinrich-zilla-1858-1929 monthly 0.5 2019-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206195844-OPR5CP133Y4LVR3MXZQF/IMG_4818.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206244401-4P7IJZP9X27T5GRZY535/IMG_4827.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) He portrayed street life in Berlin, the largest manufacturing city on the continent, including the misery of the poor.. His art was a critical of the government. He supported social causes and was against war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206521996-5NVORMTJLBY2A3MYP7TA/IMG_2666.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) He used this motif several times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206591257-DUVDO10AVBL9QJ5SRMZ6/IMG_2667.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206629776-0ME867DSGTI3NY1OCBTP/IMG_4820.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) “Father will be happy to see that are already so many of us when he gets out of prison.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206813848-ITUKBZI4CTK37V94ND1I/IMG_4821.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) “You got to blow!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206870301-G0AQEF0BNFDS2DVY549G/IMG_4823.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) “Stand on your head again.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206938235-P97QZT4R28XB1NQP9CS3/IMG_4825.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570206962089-FGKCW9SKCNUY7908QGEW/IMG_2672.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) Street circus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570207002103-I6YE9T4HIPJM3N3GQWQB/IMG_2670.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) Zilla at work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570207099744-U43DMPA1XE4SMZMKV0CC/IMG_2669.JPG Bummel Blog - The artist Heinrich Zilla (1858-1929) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/3/a-walk-through-kreuzberg-a-berlin-neighborhood monthly 0.5 2019-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570103965278-S0YPJBWEJ70OQ47PPZQ6/IMG_4804.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood A wall in a public elementary school. (This was a holiday, so no students present.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104033492-FTXK88NEKQF8F1RGUA9F/IMG_4811.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104118257-KI1X23XG7K98Y4ACH0B8/IMG_4812.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood Landwehr canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104211020-Y0ZY17I9IKRS1DLZ90FT/IMG_4813.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104261383-ARHX34HSW6POIOG9LKAA/IMG_4814.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood Walk along the canal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104297637-42ZSWVWHYWEDEXT0CYOF/IMG_4815.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104332275-LU7P6UOLYKCSRSY0ALD4/IMG_4816.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood Ingrid and Peter were unable to find reference to this mural, but Kreuzberg is known for its street art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570104382626-X12M94XNRMH6JTO41UOM/IMG_4801.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk through Kreuzberg, a Berlin neighborhood October 3rd, German Unity Day. A large protest against increased rents. For decades the Berlin social housing system has benefited private owners but driven out renters, according to the poster. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/2/gemldegalerie-painting-gallery monthly 0.5 2019-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570024612827-EKPQMY61R272B5AMHA49/IMG_4796.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Venus by Botticelli 1490 This museum has one of the world’s most important collections of paintings from the 13th to the 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570024869843-WOW8JRS03D4BKR22CB4X/IMG_4798.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Profile of a Young Woman by Piero del Pollaiuolo around 1465. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570024964492-4XD2H6ZT6NQWYPRZX3CE/IMG_4797.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Portrait of a Young Woman by Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025064442-HENRG7BVEBXHEP0ORUCT/IMG_2656.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) The Virgin Mary in Prayer. Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025438205-ZK49XOWI8DJ6SJB03K3Q/IMG_2652.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Rembrandt’s wife Saskia van Uylenburgh by Rembrandt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025606629-QNHSB6YEJMXVGKET27C9/IMG_2658.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) The Man in the Golden Helmet 1665 Rembrandt. Peter and his college roommates had a large reproduction of this painting on the wall of their apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025739778-VTDENQ61USJXAAKBSGIY/IMG_2653.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Rembrandt self-portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025822358-CI3YJ56J5QD3SHZZU8K2/IMG_2657.JPG Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Rembrandt self-portrait. This etching measures about one-and-a-half square inches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1570025959298-NQVZ5EQVSEAL7U065J26/IMG_2654.jpg Bummel Blog - Gemäldegalerie (Painting Gallery) Portrait of a Merchant. 1532 Hans Holbein. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/10/1/jewish-cemetery-and-new-synagogue-consecrated-in-1866 monthly 0.5 2019-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569947304328-NSPWGTW3O1T0OZEYCTC2/IMG_4783.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) This is the site of both a cemetery. It was also the site of a former retirement home, through which, under inhuman conditions, Berlin’s 55,000 Jews were forced to pass on the way to concentration camps. The statue by Will and Mark Lammert was presented by East Germany (DDR) desperate for international support. It was originally meant for Ravensbrueck but placed here where more would see it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569947585007-A2I33HDQTG09L0S9H512/IMG_4782.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) Note the stones representing eternal memory. Contrast with flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569947754828-EI8O9CY4UF1HICJ7VX1Z/IMG_2641.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) A mosaic depicting peace as suggested by children. Note the small tiles at the bottom, such as the following. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569947837091-7O99DLI0MVXSN4Z6Z7IE/IMG_4787.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569947903282-EFH87Z3Q0J2OBOPDTBGT/IMG_4788.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) CITYarts, Inc. (NY city) asked children around the globe what peace would look like, incorporating the ideas into this mural. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569948837178-OEQ57S708HHLAA358QNI/IMG_4792.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) The New Synagogue, consecrated in 1866) was destroyed during the war. It has been partially rebuilt as a museum. Note the barricade poles surrounding the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569949074616-U19KU1791BEN2N7AQYO5/IMG_2644.JPG Bummel Blog - Jewish cemetery and New Synagogue (consecrated in 1866) The museum exhibited the drawings of Gabriella Rosenthal from Once Upon a Time in Jerusalem. This is her commentary on the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/29/organ-concert-at-the-kaiser-wilhelm-gedchtniskirche-berlin-marathon monthly 0.5 2019-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569765597663-13YHTNJFGGUEDVV1LI09/IMG_2613.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Mainly Johann Sebastian Bach, but Peter and Ingrid particularly enjoyed a modern piece, Choralfantasie, “Da Pacem, Domine” Hans Studer (1911-1984) (Bern 1984) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569765772029-4QG4HBU1FI15EKB0KM22/IMG_2619.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Munich artist Karl Hemmeter’s sculpture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569765836847-V7DX9YWSFH60428H8NB4/IMG_2621.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569765867865-87SBIN0EAMUMR0EPAHCZ/IMG_4753.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Photos and video from kilometer 17, in the 42 kilometer race. The 47,000 marathoners ended by passing through the Brandenburg Gate from east to west. The Boston marathon is the world’s oldest annually run marathon, with around 30,000 participants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569766258394-HYVTUXBKPZGNQ1NK1025/IMG_4728.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Before the race. Hasenheide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569766339743-O8ERT1WAGEVIEK4P09DZ/IMG_4748.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Bicycle marathoners with various disabilities, using their arms to peddle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569766473266-FX49ER76YL36PN3ZZ7IQ/IMG_4776.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Discarded plastic cups. Assuming each runner uses 5 cups and each cup weighs 5 grams, the total weight would be 1,175 kilograms of plastic waste. (assumptions not verified) In any case it’s a hell of a lot of plastic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569766838136-NSS7HSC9XZO006DK2PF1/IMG_4780.JPG Bummel Blog - Organ Concert at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. Berlin Marathon. Orange truck sweeping up the plastic shortly after the last runner had past kilometer 17. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/27/at-the-grips-theaters-production-of-linie-1 monthly 0.5 2019-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569599946459-KFY9NRMKVCP6RH14TKGG/IMG_2607.JPG Bummel Blog - At the Grips Theater's production of Linie 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569599963999-EHCPYVQL5X3T7KD32VJ1/IMG_4716.JPG Bummel Blog - At the Grips Theater's production of Linie 1 In this re-do of a 1986 musical, Alice comes to the big city looking for her boyfriend and meets various Berlin characters on subway line 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569600142625-HPJV7UQK82IGFLW38U1D/IMG_4718.JPG Bummel Blog - At the Grips Theater's production of Linie 1 Origami style crane painted on a building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569600192425-A3UPFEBMLXEGMIPHL34A/IMG_4717.JPG Bummel Blog - At the Grips Theater's production of Linie 1 These stumble stones will need to have their inscriptions redone. Volunteers will do the work. (see earlier blog posts for stumble stones.) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/25/kaiser-wilhelm-memorial-church-gedchtniskirche-or-der-hohle-zahn monthly 0.5 2019-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569426854200-J6Z7HV8TS7N04KHBWE66/IMG_4703.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn In 2016 a terrorist drove a truck into a crowd at the Christmas Market, killing twelve. Their names are engraved on the steps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569426947813-7AXKNAQGYISBRMK6RMF9/IMG_4701.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn The bronze line marks the route of the terrorist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569427031901-23KRD6S45TZCHFAREBYP/IMG_4699.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn The first stone was laid in 1891. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569427112426-LPF6SGYM70PVQQDWJMQ1/IMG_4704.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn It was bombed in 1943 but not rebuilt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569427331183-LRW4LQS38I5BT1PRJRVK/IMG_4712.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn The New Church is an octagonal building with over twenty-two thousand blue glass windows. The colors resemble those found in church windows of the middle ages. The glass was a gift from France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569427549944-OYTXVV9D4LQXC3IFQ9AX/IMG_4714.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn The ceiling in the original Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569427654493-5JYZZ7ZPD3T0TE90QUB8/IMG_4715.JPG Bummel Blog - Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) or der hohle Zahn After the terrorist attack, this barricade was constructed. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/24/in-the-vicinity-of-hackescher-markt-on-a-shopping-spree monthly 0.5 2019-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569343956833-PD33QN1Y06K03YDRPC99/IMG_4693.JPG Bummel Blog - In the vicinity of Hackescher Markt on a shopping spree. Walls often decorated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569344035907-XC9TKEHL38EKVL0WQL5T/IMG_4698.JPG Bummel Blog - In the vicinity of Hackescher Markt on a shopping spree. In one of eight shopping courtyards with restored German Art Noveau (Jugendstil 1907) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569344165596-8TTXBWCCO1BJ2Q77N2VN/IMG_4695.JPG Bummel Blog - In the vicinity of Hackescher Markt on a shopping spree. A store specializing in leather belts made on the premises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569344244373-3HUISF77IG6UK90NVEKU/IMG_4697.JPG Bummel Blog - In the vicinity of Hackescher Markt on a shopping spree. Ingrid couldn’t resist doing a few mounts and dismounts on the pommel horse, nor could Peter resist buying a pair of suspenders. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/23/perivoli-a-schreber-garden-an-intercultural-integration-project monthly 0.5 2019-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569223342256-HCTJVFDN6WHDBLR0KB8K/IMG_4687.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. An intercultural undertaking, supported by the city of Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569221789586-CZV2LBUN4BBT4AT840E8/IMG_4676.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. Parcels of land in the Perivoli (Greek for garden). In 1864 Dr. Shreber lead the movement to establish small garden plots within the city, given that so many people living in tenements had no access to fresh fruits and vegetables. The idea spread quickly to German speaking countries and to the Netherlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569221871888-KN06ZLQZ3TROGWZGU322/IMG_2582.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569222005248-LMD81629V7Q1E9UO8LEC/IMG_4678.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. Aspects of the gardens: raising bees, a pond with frogs, a playground, kitchens for garden parties, fruit trees, a pizza oven, a place to relax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569222288878-AVUS8JLXUIMY6BQBL7ZF/IMG_4680.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. A kitchen shed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569222385686-YSNKZIUNDLW3C67NUQN4/IMG_4682.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. There is much to do in this garden, but not overnight stays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569222424938-CJP1MEXJ16KYNU20JPHQ/IMG_4688.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569222446418-JW5114UDZQI6GLZR1166/IMG_4691.JPG Bummel Blog - Perivoli, a Schreber Garden, an intercultural integration project. The youngest member. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/21/berliner-siegessule monthly 0.5 2019-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071081117-IIRCHDK86K2PMJU6AHD3/20190921_115552.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule The victory column first celebrated victories at war but is now a symbol of Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071458163-R8522H6STEWAPFKT1LMV/20190921_115445.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule Ingrid, Peter, and two friends climbed the 285 steps to the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071584193-AS7JV73FAFVL9JV6XDNB/IMG_2580.PNG Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071714510-9D6TETBEGA9BJLTTEPRD/IMG_4671.JPG Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071770396-MOD92YA6OECSIX2J3OE9/20190921_113436.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule Ingrid, Peter, and a new friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071831615-BNLR3YCDQ4CI0H7R8J6K/20190921_113449.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule Ingrid, Peter, and a long time friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569071908358-11I181QAGV18OU197C5T/20190921_122111%281%29.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule The day after the Climate demonstration. The TV tower (the Lange Lulatsch)) and the Brandenburger Gate in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569072114293-S11MYB7XMRSII1YZAG1V/20190921_113644.jpg Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule Look carefully for the second goddess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1569072187323-H1IO3H95XYYY48H8DJMU/IMG_4644%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Berliner Siegessäule Imagine finding a Bellevue Castle in Berlin. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/20/270000-march-in-berlin-to-protest-lack-of-action-on-climate-change-20-sept-2019 monthly 0.5 2019-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568993695870-N3IR2IIOC4WZQ2C12I71/IMG_4624.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568993758282-59KGBHTK332S2HWSOZHM/IMG_2562.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568993788408-SEFZNV4BM2CDB2FEFKXO/IMG_4627.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 This woman stayed up last night to create this poster because today was her daughter’s birthday. For the first time in her life she felt compelled to protest lack of action on climate change. “When the last tree is felled, the last river poisoned, the last fish caught, only then will you realize you can’t eat money.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568994097396-OZWYDMWYIP74S2MZ92FQ/IMG_2565.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 “Mr. President first. Miss Earth last.” Mutti missed her chance. Youth must get on it.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568994209460-JNFT8KV08QVDGOCR311W/IMG_4623.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568994268643-LZSZFYFA541NXQ8ECJWE/IMG_4628.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568994292572-B6G4D9EZKUB4DJCWH4GG/IMG_4641.JPG Bummel Blog - 270,000 March in Berlin to protest lack of action on climate change. 20 Sept. 2019 House Warming Party. The Last Snowman https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/18/sans-souci monthly 0.5 2019-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822040189-UFL2998C2ZCDZIMSYM2Q/IMG_2548.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci On the way to Sans Souci, King Frederick the Great’s summer palace, rival of Versailles. 1712-1786 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822177185-4RMJ8WJ6E8L5NALA3IRA/IMG_2552.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci Rococo style room with columns carved from single pieces of marble. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822364160-2VZXRRAMTYURQ1QPD3WA/IMG_4615.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci Marble hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822497480-23VH2A3G5UNLD2TUM704/IMG_4618.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci A country scene adorned the entrance of each of the four guest rooms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822620461-A7W8U89GZ4U1QQR22Y6D/IMG_4619.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci The last image you see as you leave the palace is this portrait of Frederick the Great by Any Warhol. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822732808-OOBGUSSMG6JB0GO6S8J4/IMG_4608.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci The Chinese Pavilion on the grounds of Sans Souci. Frederick the great admired Chinese silk, porcelain and calligraphy. He encouraged the production of silk cloth in Prussia. Silk tapestries hung in his summer palace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568822976857-HKG5AAD4KH9LESN3ITWT/IMG_4611.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568823043346-0IDLTVHKADJN1EPQZ974/IMG_4578.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci Park Charlottenhof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568823092428-L6CJXJS52TGUFNJ6467I/IMG_4574.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci Nikolai Church near the train station in Potsdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568823139075-L3KMFBA1C7HNP9X6MZ24/IMG_4575.JPG Bummel Blog - Sans Souci Typical Potsdamer architecture. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/17/das-museum-blindenwerkstatt-otto-weidt monthly 0.5 2019-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568726925627-375F0HJKJ15M253TBOSO/IMG_4572.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt This is the site of Otto Weidt’s brush factory . He employed mainly blind and deaf Jewish workers, and protected them at the risk of his own life. This museum is supported by the Memorial Foundation of German Resistance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568727409404-HPNSMVT2Y0K0XR9VZJXQ/IMG_4565.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt Entrance to the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568727451328-ZO3OPO9JBUJURL3JXMJV/IMG_4568.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt Otto Weidt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568727488538-2GUWXU5OZPXSN9ML2G0E/IMG_4567.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568727516280-9X0MCYL1J0FD9XMFIY7R/IMG_4569.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568727545105-IVI0FRAJNC56GHD82ZN6/IMG_4566.JPG Bummel Blog - Das Museum Blindenwerkstatt. Otto Weidt Staff of the factory.Sadly many workers were arrested and deported in 1943/44. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/16/pergammon-ping-pong-und-picke-packe-voll monthly 0.5 2019-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661515971-3TX9EFIUHMCYZEE0EP6B/IMG_2430.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661552494-BRBGHN4DPJKXYA22CBOO/IMG_2429.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL Back at the Pergamon, we found out that the images were created by a combination of computer design, paintings, and photography and then printed on linen cloth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661621175-3G7XBAMBFXRZGBHPUF6Y/IMG_2436.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL The Mushkhushshu, the animal in the middle on the left, is a combination of a snake, eagle, dragon, and lion— a common pet in Berlin. The animal combination in the forefront has not yet been identified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661713771-WYI6XUFZXX7YA6V8RD65/file-1%281%29.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL Note the resemblance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661750801-E5W39QHIX6GA71F8XCYX/IMG_2441.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL This highly geometric prayer niche is from sometime in the 11th-13th century in Konya (present-day Turkey). These niches orient the devotees towards Mecca. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568661791448-D1QVZ1IWV0GQ2OURDXX5/IMG_4562.JPG Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL This carpet is from India. In order to date the carpets, the well known carpet detective Bode would look at paintings which included carpets in order to date the carpets themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568662028496-0CF1BT7UUKBEXJSBUBIM/IMG_2445.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL Mandarinfrischkaesetorte fuer Alice; Schwarzwaelderkirschtorte fuer Jesse, Walnusssahnetorte fuer Ingrid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568662154147-PY3FPD8SIUB80CUNWFSZ/file.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL Team Mumpelpumpel. See Mumpel on left, setting Pumpel up for her patented Smash. They lost 21-11 to team Pommes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568662232291-U113QAVZUCCPEQLQCVSF/file-1.jpeg Bummel Blog - PERGAMON, PING PONG UND PICKE PACKE VOLL Mutter. Tochter. Leder. Mother. Daughter. Leather. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/15/flea-market-and-tempelhof monthly 0.5 2019-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565241120-ZO64ZWKOC5F29ARJDNNC/IMG_4522.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof Two new arrivals from Seattle. On the street car to Kastenienallee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565342817-ZBYNZEPMYCFJ5FPR1LBZ/IMG_4531.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof Kreutzboerg Flowmarkt (the German spelling) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565431030-2DRRG335YWQ8MJJ3HU60/IMG_4532.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565465610-0GV2YBFSDRGKA5AGRQ34/IMG_4525.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof A “clevus multrum” at the flea market reminds us of Maine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565623057-OPXRKBDXUUZRGHAQSAFD/IMG_2544.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof “Tempo-home”: temporary housing at Tempelhof airport for refugees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568565806351-M95X8FM6SU09F3F72CG2/image-asset.jpeg Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof The Berlin airlift lasted from June 26, 1948, to Sept. 30, 1949. Tempelhof is now a huge public park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568566075576-RLRECK21KBLBGZPR5NUQ/IMG_2404.jpeg Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568566127105-FHCK9ST6LYJNX8CF373U/IMG_2413.jpg Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof Many parks have concrete and steel ping-pong tables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568566187458-JUKTWXZKH31D62EYECHQ/IMG_2419%281%29.jpg Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568566231404-439JUNGVRGOAG166EH4Q/IMG_4536.JPG Bummel Blog - Flea Market and Tempelhof Passing the Sehitlik Camii mosque, and the oldest Turkish cemetery in Germany. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/13/the-jewish-museum-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568377884650-HYNNH7F9L8FJZ76ORK9I/Screen+Shot+2019-09-13+at+2.23.03+PM.png Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin The orange-roofed building is the original Jewish museum, opened in 1933, six days before Hitler came to power. The Nazi’s closed in on Kristalnacht and confiscated its contents. The zig-zag gray extension was created by Daniel Libeskind. Construction began in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568378157766-SRCLC5VPGQLYNL1BEIYF/IMG_2518.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin Jews living in the countryside could not remain anonymous so were forced to move to the city. These signs from country villages all say, “Jews unwelcome here.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568378649426-OIH3429NHVR826J84CK0/IMG_2519%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin As of 1933 Jewish dentists In the city could only treat Jewish patients. They could advertise themselves only as dental assistants. Like all Jewish professionals they had to add Israel as a middle name and put a yellow star on the left of their sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568378850703-ZNT0FRFD1U4MZ0GYJF8Q/IMG_2521.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin One of the “Void voids” in the museum. Unheated, lit only by a slit twenty-four meters above, it suggests great loss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568378987185-TXDO8QE7HLXA94K49P7S/IMG_2525.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin The E. T. A. Hoffman garden, built on tilted cobblestone ground, consists of a square, seven columns on a side. It is meant to be somewhat disorienting. The columns are filled with soil. Trees grow above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568379609535-RB9G2287PZMGBWTQTO85/IMG_2532.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin Another void, unheated, lit only by natural light from above, is paved by more than 10,000 open-mouthed faces cut from heavy iron plates. Walking on them produces a sort of metalic agony. The artist is Menashe Kadishman who named it Fallen Leaves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568379903651-V8AIMG0S8PDKQ4ZQ1DBB/IMG_2537.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin Alice Haarburger’s 1930 self-portrait. She was deported to the Riga ghetto in 1941 on her fiftieth birthday. She was shot a few months later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568380142602-20UKYC156O65N1VOF88Z/IMG_2530.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin LIbeskind designed the museum along three axes: The axis of exile, the axis of the Holocaust, and the axis of continuity, which this wedding photo represents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568380433412-AWJTHHKT8E05BKPHR6XM/IMG_2533.JPG Bummel Blog - The Jewish Museum, Berlin https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/12/time-in-dren monthly 0.5 2019-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568307001773-3KGHL131P5GWRVZGPVLA/IMG_4509.JPG Bummel Blog - Time in Düren One of our gracious hosts in the market place in Düren . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568307060257-E8WQXEX645Q7J43SFIAC/IMG_2517.JPG Bummel Blog - Time in Düren On Wednesday nights, once a month, a food fair is held, offering foods from various German federal states. The man in the red hat previously owned a circus but when his daughter was killed in an accident, he left it, followed by some coworkers, and opened this salmon stand, in which salmon are baked by open fires of red beach logs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568307423808-Q7KFY78KHROY8P7V7BST/IMG_4512.JPG Bummel Blog - Time in Düren A Jewish presence in Düren dates back to 1241. The first Jewish school was established in Düren in the 1500’s. A synagogue ,opened in 1872 , once stood at this spot. On 9 November 1938 the Nazi’s burned it down. Of 385 Jews, 102 were transported to concentration camps and murdered. Thirty were unaccounted for. The marker does not explain the fate of the others. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/11/aachen-dren-and-environs monthly 0.5 2019-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214197477-4SHNVHC47IQXDNT2SS1T/IMG_2509.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Knechtsteden Monastery in Chorbusch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214267376-K7DXGU759U7CL4TJY88M/IMG_2513.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Braunkohle power plant on the way from Witteshoven to Düren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214373228-5TS2HPP78DC6KA4QTIT2/IMG_2514.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Braunkohl is still being excavated and used. To allow mining in this area some villages had to be abandoned. Displaced people were given property elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214513076-ITA1TBPTZHKEO3M7G4SG/IMG_4478.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Our hosts took us out for curry wurst before our visit to Aachen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214575267-QA80PWE682SDVJDCNT58/IMG_4491.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Der Aachener Dom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214665741-BY3915YKGO8G0PHC2244/IMG_4492.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs 1993 statue of Charlemagne by the Aachener Dom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214759231-8L7OH8VJ3KOFK5TS1IBM/IMG_4498.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs Inside the cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214808311-M25U9BTP71Q7JFDFJCZM/IMG_4502.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214852020-U4PCQZQGXBRY42I2OHQT/IMG_4508.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs A statue about the circulation of money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568214902775-QDXL6T5O3BTB8BZC8XNZ/IMG_4479.JPG Bummel Blog - Aachen, Düren, and Environs The upright pinky indicates Aachen. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/10/from-cologne-to-widdeshoven monthly 0.5 2019-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568121553104-9WJGB1PIKTOPE41JAHB7/IMG_4450.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven With Jessica in Cologne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568121620253-TZX1IAYSOMJD2BM93HYR/IMG_4452.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven Old Man River ( the Rhein) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568121734647-MUS9IAITSLLW64Y839QV/IMG_2500.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven From Cologne to Widdeshoven in a Mercedes. Brown coal burning in the distance. All brown coal power plants to be eliminated by 2038. ( But not all Mercedes) . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568121954796-1S54ULFSL87QJFMXMZBD/IMG_4461.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven Widdeshoven in the distance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568122029147-IJFVG26VV114NWZQMIHS/IMG_4455.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven Our hostess Vanessa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568122080756-ZMOI3E2O52E0TFEBZ4MY/IMG_4460.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568122202215-0IA2GXWPJ4A3JDG9F1X0/IMG_2502%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568122333682-D6W0HVU6IW4FR773YGGJ/IMG_4463.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven Fields surround the town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1568122407355-D0ZVK4TQU34629MAPOP1/IMG_2506.JPG Bummel Blog - From Cologne to Widdeshoven https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/8/outing-with-friends-in-amsterdam monthly 0.5 2019-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567964728971-KYA56C9LBIKKS7FN2Y63/IMG_4439.JPG Bummel Blog - Outing with friends in Amsterdam Gray Panthers? In Noorderpark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567964891249-UTHNYW4T8E5INSTKF89Q/IMG_4431.JPG Bummel Blog - Outing with friends in Amsterdam More friends in Noorderpark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567964936566-43QBE6CIGV4J3LQ100TF/IMG_4442.JPG Bummel Blog - Outing with friends in Amsterdam Taken from the free ferry, returning to the city from Noorderpark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567965010667-DA66BB0FJGCDC50A8HJW/IMG_2496.JPG Bummel Blog - Outing with friends in Amsterdam The three vertical Saint Andrew’s crosses represent Amsterdam.. This swing is at the top of the A’Dam Tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567965298443-3BFDS7PK60BOID9VVDI1/IMG_4446.JPG Bummel Blog - Outing with friends in Amsterdam From our hotel room balcony, Central Station in the distance. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/7/back-in-amsterdam monthly 0.5 2019-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567870947863-UQ5K9GO0531KGWFUTECF/IMG_2489.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam He’s happier than he looks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567870996637-4KN8JRWYIVY5SJ6JRQIU/IMG_4417.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam De Oude Kerk (The Old Church), begun in 1218. As you may recall from our Amsterdam blog last year, the windows had then been covered with red paper to prevent exposure of photosensitive paper, which was being used to get direct copies of the stained glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871186736-2L3V19MTSY6D50LGE1FL/IMG_4412.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam Trembling with excitement, Ingrid’s hand shook, but you can still see the colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871242011-AHUFH2INH1SZN7LBOL41/IMG_4414.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam Saskia van Uylenburgh’s tomb in the floor of the Oude Kerk. Rembrandt’s first wife. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871417557-RB4Y2D5HJ7J8X0F449B0/IMG_4420.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam The monks had to sit in uncomfortable seats, whose undersides were carved with often profane images. Here a man defecates money. The seats were on hinges and when pulled down to be sat on, the images were invisible. They were meant to amuse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871662213-F7V0CNPZC33KSZ88EFQX/IMG_4419.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam This style vase was made for kings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871715264-F6QMFJ4JW2FEKCADXDG0/IMG_4423.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam Ingrid took this picture of a flash downpour from the inside of the barbershop where Peter had a noteworthy haircut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567871799371-FXRU5691UUOH54EM7XXJ/IMG_2492.JPG Bummel Blog - Back in Amsterdam After Maatjes herring for lunch, there was only room for an apple tart and an apple crisp for dinner. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/5/pools-and-cats-in-kortrijk monthly 0.5 2019-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697068759-K19SWZYMGZ3JTIZ80M9L/IMG_4377.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk Still life: Walking Stick with (real) Moss. At the restaurant at the Lago pool complex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697174794-0NZOYXOEKOWENO8LLRBG/IMG_2477.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk Children’s pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697212466-U5KFFHQOE2VKY3JFTNM2/IMG_2480.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk Olympic size (50 meter) pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697252878-PB04T9R9UF1ZWGZXROMY/IMG_4393.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk Might just be a cute cup except . . . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697308435-700KG2JBMD9PXN2H83VW/IMG_4392.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk . . . this is a cat cafe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697364998-E9SXHX6K4Y7HAYAY8NMF/IMG_4401.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697403181-XUZ3GSGQU01BCG4QUGOJ/IMG_4394.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697436029-9D2OGZBK62RAQ68GT29L/IMG_4404.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk In a court room in City Hall. Coats of Arms of the guilds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567697501286-81OQ0ZBAYGF9PK508NUK/IMG_4409.JPG Bummel Blog - Pools and Cats in Kortrijk The Bakers’ coat of arms. Present City Hall was erected in 1520 in Gothic and Renaissance style. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/5/kortrijk monthly 0.5 2019-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567667985450-WUHZ3GNVCAVCCFE4JCI2/IMG_4365.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk Former city hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567668039862-OZBIXSCY20ZQ0K8R5OZV/IMG_4374.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk The first of the Broel Towers was built in 1385 to control traffic on the Leie River. The second was built in 1415 and used as an armory. They are all that remain of the medieval wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567668270324-7AG5GYKZVEY6BMCPGYU5/IMG_4358.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk Belfry of Kortrijk (1307), one of the city’s symbols. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567668584173-QL3VDO3HNM80BWYUDK7L/IMG_4362.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk St. Martin’s church. Already a worship site in 650 c. e. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567668717133-TMI0IU8B5VRRIDUUY7S9/IMG_2474.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk St. Martin’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567668798181-KHF17Z45J9DBBS53YCBW/IMG_4371.JPG Bummel Blog - Kortrijk Our gracious hostess’s car. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/4/from-bochum-to-cologne-to-bruxelles-nord-to-kortrijk monthly 0.5 2019-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567582658520-ZHE4AG5LIB8UYGXEW45O/IMG_4353.JPG Bummel Blog - from Bochum to Cologne to Bruxelles-Nord to Kortrijk At Cologne Central Station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567582780792-BE6XJE7F5IOV8WXLDO88/IMG_4348.JPG Bummel Blog - from Bochum to Cologne to Bruxelles-Nord to Kortrijk The Koelner Dom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567582856831-3DTAJOKG2FQI2MGNOZO8/IMG_4350.JPG Bummel Blog - from Bochum to Cologne to Bruxelles-Nord to Kortrijk Cologne Station https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567582904835-6YAU2BUU287UETQCUHT3/IMG_4354.JPG Bummel Blog - from Bochum to Cologne to Bruxelles-Nord to Kortrijk Belgian landscape, approaching Kortrijk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567582949422-NIFEQ9T37F5X9F5RT7DZ/IMG_2474.JPG Bummel Blog - from Bochum to Cologne to Bruxelles-Nord to Kortrijk Market square near our Kortrijk hotel. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/2/zollverein-coal-mine-industrial-compex-a-unesco-world-heritage-site-essen monthly 0.5 2019-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567488793924-WE8YX93UYPRKKL9KYL6T/IMG_2465.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) First coal mine opened here in 1847. In 1993 the coal and coking plant was closed. This is now a part of the Ruhr Museum with over 6,000 exhibits. The Ruhr area has been transforming itself a modern metropolis, with industry and much outdoor recreation. All religious groups have found acceptance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567489302082-WPMFNN5J99JFVVOSCH7B/IMG_4340.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) One small area of the coal mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567489366465-JNIER847QF20FMGQM55N/IMG_2470.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) About thirteen of the 250 coking furnace, which once produced 11,000 tons of coke a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567489462149-98HUGFOTQNG3G0N6QE90/IMG_4346.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) A view from the very long escalator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567489522386-2CDBAX1TX45N5IMTS7NX/IMG_4347.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) Industrial cable for raising mined coal to the surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567489691235-25OGDK6EUH0ZR7JNPY7N/IMG_2468%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Compex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Essen) A helicopter had landed on the grounds. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/2/bochum-and-surroundings monthly 0.5 2019-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567408482359-7GH9YLF4ZUDN33VUNSL8/IMG_4306.JPG Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings In Germany cemetery graves are not maintained in perpetuity so many choose cremation for their loved ones. Placed in biodegradable urns, the ashes may be buried by a memorial tree. Here is one such site. More than one urn may be buried near a particular tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567408717866-RMOT7FUEFRNUFMD5ZYUQ/IMG_4305.JPG Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings The last person named was a dear friend of Ingrid and Peter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409028935-NE1265JJ5YAEPL8PISY3/IMG_4308.JPG Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings Giant plantain by an almost thousand year old church near Schloss Cappenberg. Note the branch support. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409186327-9M6E768M08QVTRTA6FZL/IMG_2451.JPG Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409217797-5X13JMGC0H1WKM9IMK9K/IMG_4307.JPG Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings Waiting for traditional four o’clock coffee and cake. If one is a little too late, all the cake will be gone. As our friend paraphrased it, “Life is long, cake is short.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409401664-LB0ZRBCP0O8M7PIGMVES/PHOTO-2019-09-01-20-12-59.jpg Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings Stele’s by Marko Pogacnik, born Yugoslavia 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409545474-IA23CAPVH1SCUMWFD9XG/PHOTO-2019-09-01-20-12-57.jpg Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings Another of Pogacnik’s steles on the church grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567409647555-M9H4SUB6J2LFBMAH3EBU/PHOTO-2019-09-01-20-12-57%281%29.jpg Bummel Blog - Bochum and surroundings The Thinker. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/9/1/trip-to-bochum monthly 0.5 2019-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325296036-072TA7Z1ARLVBOBYUVRC/IMG_4298.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum When Peter wondered aloud if they were at the right track, Ingrid told him, he must put faith in the system. The loud speaker then blared and everyone stood and ran for the staircase. The departure track had been changed from #6 to #2. As soon as Ingrid and Peter arrived at track #2, the loud speaker blared and everyone stood and ran back to track #6. As soon as Ingrid and Peter were seated, a passenger told them they were in the wrong seats. Ingrid confidently showed him their tickets, but they were for a different rail car. With only a few minutes left before departure, the ran to the correct car. All was then well. Peter is now permitted to express concerns regarding the German Railway system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325628741-JRT4U43A34PWITCHBKLY/IMG_2438.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum Wolfsburg. VW’s main factory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325677588-74DWKK9UX9X2511Q72NH/IMG_4300.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum Germany plans to have all green energy by 2038. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325744128-2PD7AVK6LLD6YT0KWEIR/Richard+Serra.jpg Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum America artist Richard Serra’s sculpture Terminal greeted Ingrid and Peter as they exited the train station in Bochum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325829399-4F5CK67X6S60X863WISE/IMG_2441.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum 7th or 8th century ruins in the Schloss Park, Bochum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325901574-0BKGIZXABJP178Y9T508/IMG_2439.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum Peter and Ingrid with friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567325945309-FKZL5OD3VT5W7BTYU8E1/IMG_2443.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum Richard Serra’s sculpture comes alive. Situation Kunst Museu. Bochum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567326014128-UNOJA31CJ4B92BJ7B97S/PHOTO-2019-08-31-21-14-43.jpg Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum Sitting monk. Japaneses. Wood. Kamakura Period 1324 -1439. Realistic without flourishes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567326208806-JJJPSWDOBSSKKBVA9WWK/IMG_2448.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum King’s head. Nigeria. Bronze. 500 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567326282880-74EF4SWQS3BUPQW68RU4/PHOTO-2019-08-31-21-09-15.jpg Bummel Blog - Trip to Bochum American Gothic. 100 years old. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/30/emil-nolde-1867-1956-germandanish-paintor monthly 0.5 2019-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187191584-61O3UOOOIFK589DM1800/IMG_4297.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor Hamburger station converted into a museum where we Peter, Ingrid, and friends saw the exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187298966-TGUP770YPANMH96QSCH4/IMG_2419.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor Dunes. 1935 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187349025-RR2T15LOSFR9D23IX561/IMG_2422.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor After Nolde was criticized for his abstract religious paintings he began a series about the Vikings. This picture was reproduced from a water color he had done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187464411-5PL2K2DT612U8H78Q7N3/IMG_2423.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor Poppies and Red Evening Clouds. 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187535900-WV3GP89RQSR7WZLN1ET3/IMG_2425.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor Sea and Dark Clouds. 1936 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187599490-DZUI6NBWHPEL5UFNAVUQ/IMG_4270.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor LIght Dahlias and Sunflowers. After the Nazi’s banned his paintings he abandoned figurative work and focused only on images of flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567187842682-MAN4F0WEHCP6895XWXZ1/IMG_4274.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567188113330-5KMBCIX1I7269OELQJJ8/IMG_4276.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor Although he remained antisemitic, he did undergo the process of de-Nazification. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567188222490-8DQ5LBBQ8KUSFHTMIV9P/IMG_4291.JPG Bummel Blog - Emil Nolde (1867 -1956) German/Danish Paintor In 2009 the full story of Nolde’s Nazi membership became widely known as well as his having made money during the ban. He purged his writings of his antisemitic thoughts. This painting, on loan, hung in Angela Merkel’s office (the chancellor’s office) for many years, but had to be returned to the Nolde Foundation when the story came out. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/29/searching-for-the-berlin-bear monthly 0.5 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567091065975-96IQBMOPVTF8ILQLGXKZ/IMG_2417.JPG Bummel Blog - Searching for the Berlin Bear. Removing old streetcar rails near Alexander Platz. (But no bear.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567091158750-0EGP0TDBEHH2PUL7SD8G/IMG_4253.JPG Bummel Blog - Searching for the Berlin Bear. Friedrich II, or Friedrich the Great, Kaiser from 1740 -1786. Porcelain bust, but no bear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567091267477-7HTAAVG5NL42PI1CJCSA/IMG_4258.JPG Bummel Blog - Searching for the Berlin Bear. The non-Jewish women of the Rosenstrasse neighborhood, married to or related to Jewish men, who were arrested or targeted for deportation, initiated and sustained a protest until the men were released. This was the only mass public demonstration by German’s in the Third Reich against the deportation of Jews. Wikipedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567091591576-41DCNFY8W8XKFUGVGGL1/Attachment-1.jpeg Bummel Blog - Searching for the Berlin Bear. Our visitors finally found the souvenir they wanted. Since 1280 the bear has been a symbol of Berlin. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/28/pergamon-museum-kathe-kollwitz monthly 0.5 2019-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567005531143-EI7US9PS3G5LZZFY9S2J/IMG_2387.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. Another visit to the Pergamon Panorama, by Asisi. Close-up of people entering a stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567005636620-913RDUXQQ5TPYFQ13M7S/IMG_2388.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. foundation to a palace from the Halaf site in Syria. Circa 9th century b.c.e. Pergamon Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567005877617-51FEDKTIZLEQ7KORV2K2/IMG_2389.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. Lions before the Ishtar Gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567005922720-BEWHV23QRI8K3HF5NKLO/IMG_2391.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. The processional way through the Ishtar gate into the city. Glazed bricks. Originally 240 meters long. The museum has thirty meters of the original. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567006107877-T8Z0CBMP86F6MPG48CAD/IMG_2392.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. The Ishtar gate, the eighth to the inner city of Babylon. Made by Nebuchadnezzar II. (the one who threw Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the fiery furnace.) Look for the song on YouTube. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567006544501-ZK6GNUUR6L87OV8KLEK2/IMG_2393.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. Portion of the gate of Ishtar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567006648022-043EKG7FZCBMRCXHDD0X/IMG_2401.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. This building, The Guardhouse or die Neue Wache, houses Kathe Kollwitz’s statue, the Pieta. It is one German’s memorials to the victims of war and brutality. The plaque specifically mentions the Jews, the Sinti, homosexuals, the ill, the disabled, and the millions of innocents who lost their lives. You can just make out the statue through the central two columns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567007259762-0ML1R1VAOYI3IS8AYM8W/IMG_4239.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567007287642-UKTXY13N49AXR7M03VX2/IMG_2400.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567007352789-Q0QKJBB233DZWZORN4ZB/IMG_2408.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. A view of Humboldt University from Bebel Platz, one site of the May 10, 1933 book burning by the Nazi’s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1567007489329-B92CEXMTUH5E5AKX2PM7/IMG_2409.JPG Bummel Blog - Pergamon museum. Kathe Kollwitz. Ninety-two degrees. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/26/der-bummel-wird-fortgesetzt-day-two monthly 0.5 2019-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566833936371-HI6EOM70F2HHQUCEJRJQ/IMG_4210.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. The oldest beer garden in Berlin (1837) is a short walk from our apartment. This couple has had too much to drink and spent the night here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834062178-TXDL25AVP4G3HOCW2HBK/IMG_4211.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834084010-RQCAYCL6HY66GQMCGJT0/IMG_4213.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. Hotel Oderberger used to be a public bathhouse, built 1902. It has a large indoor pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834220076-32HLLHT4DZZMJJONCH9N/IMG_4214.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. A coop not far from us. “Generosity towards all people. Dismissiveness and deportation are deadly.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834542438-GLMQHAW197CIRRGB6ILU/IMG_4221.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. A local courtyard. Note the relatively new glass elevator, which has been added to the outside of the building. So many of Berlin’s houses were built before elevators were common (or even existed.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834665835-4L3VYC2OIPTM1BGK9B0M/IMG_4222.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. Although in Seattle we don’t sort glass by color, we have a “clean green” bin for garden and vegetable kitchen waste. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566834812698-V2V42WAD938M0LDONQVO/IMG_4227.JPG Bummel Blog - Der Bummel wird fortgesetzt. Day Three. Dating from the 1850s, these buildings are Prenzlauer Berg’s oldest. This is their courtyard. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/25/a-real-prenzlauer-berg-bummel monthly 0.5 2019-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566741534015-OGWY6ZCEJI8KAY7B8JZT/IMG_4191.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel Although the temperature was 85 F. , the streets, shaded by Linden and Chestnut trees, were inviting. This tower is on a hill—highest point in Berlin—covering a series of water reservoirs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742065725-SBFA012VA4IBDYC9WHYD/IMG_4196.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel The Rykestrasse Synagogue is recessed from the street, as are many others so as to be inconspicuous. Note the stubby gray poles in front, protecting the building. Some can be lowered to allow entrance off a vehicle. Similar retractable poles surround the American Embassy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742182911-TW7AEVSR1J529VB43QGM/IMG_4195.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742219356-H8AF67ZFMHYGG7X3401J/IMG_4198.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742272663-XZFHB8FZBWEAZD2HQ6YH/IMG_4202.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel “Kollwitz, a printer and sculptor, showed the suffering of people of her era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742450273-D4N5GZMVN0575QDYQJDF/IMG_4204.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel Ridiculous tourist futilely trying to pump water. (Or just mugging for the camera) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742595048-5JDMKCA4YJ6Z117JG4UL/IMG_4207.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel The Schultheiss Brewery was one of the largest int he world. Turned into a factory during WW II, now a cultural center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566742703192-0QF9QOUK0IHFFXVZF08O/IMG_4208.JPG Bummel Blog - A real Prenzlauer Berg Bummel On the old brewery grounds. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/24/a-walk-around-our-prenzlauer-neighborhood monthly 0.5 2019-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566657536218-QBQR4UTEFPDQFQHDQQSQ/IMG_4174.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a minister, moved to this then poor neighborhood to be closer to his flock. He was a critic of the Nazi’s. Hitler personally ordered his arrest and imprisonment. He was put to death on April 9th, 1945, less than a month before the war’s end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566657805342-3EAE210SEI1FYWGBNO16/IMG_4178.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. He lived around the corner from where we are staying now. This was his residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566657885604-WIW3P886Z0A22LO3H4VO/IMG_4185.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. Our neighborhood throws a street party once a year, beginning at 2pm and ending at 11pm. There is street food, live music, games, diversions for children (of which there are many)and a flea market. These boys sold us hand-made sweets. Ingrid insists that you learn that the trays are called Bauchladen. (belly shops). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566658344675-KCLJL5AHJYKQH3CP83GE/IMG_4186.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566658382745-4T2QKNB1NJEF0FO96FD8/IMG_4187.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566658404705-7YXBU5OTFD1M8Z987EVG/IMG_4188.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566658427449-L5XOHU14LQICPJQWWIFE/IMG_4190.JPG Bummel Blog - A walk around our Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood. One vanilla. One hazelnut. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/23/german-history-museum monthly 0.5 2019-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566577314645-32IAL7IW9O128YBPIP83/IMG_2357.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Today we skimmed German history from 500 c. e. to the present in four hours. Portrait of Charlemagne (Karl the Great) around 800. By Albrecht Duerer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566577686243-1YEOAOB13GZIGH0OX2V3/IMG_2362.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Mars and Venus. Common allegorical idea that love could tame militancy, especially in relation to the thirty years war. artist unknown. First half of 17th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578037680-FS3JCB12OX295VUBYN4U/IMG_2364.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Frederick Wilhelm the 1st, the soldier king, sent out scouts to recruit tall soldiers. Here is one them: Grenadier Schwerid Rediwanoff from Moscow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578164503-JXT8CWC4B55C85CIC1NR/IMG_2365.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Everyone’s favorite? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578289872-G53XFMMQNBBCYYFCLRBD/IMG_4090.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Armored Knight and horse. Around 1200. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578368458-EKL0S551U0H850OB96YT/IMG_4101.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Martin Luther and his wife, Katharina von Bora. 1529. She bore him six children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578474352-0B986PTGW2Z8JJN60DAN/IMG_4169.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Felix Nussbaum painted this while in hiding, but was discovered and sent on the last train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578602972-3EXR763YXC19O6TE2LV3/IMG_4171.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Bruno Apitz, a communist incarcerated in Buchenwald from 1937 to 1944, found a piece of Goethe oak, sculpting The Last Face, hoping to restore the dignity of the concentration camp victims. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578836486-YPMY5OX100P87RVQBWWT/IMG_2366.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum Social democratic election poster. “Mothers, your voices decide our future. Vote list 1. Social democrats” 1933 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566578988359-D53H64AHYUNJRIHE47F1/IMG_2367.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum “Fight with us. Vote Communist. List 4.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566579041513-O00RB7QX6VLZKGK9OFA9/IMG_2368.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum “These two (the communist and the Nazi) are to blame that the gentleman’s club reigns and that the lives of the German working class worsen daily. The 6th of November should be their judgment day. Vote Social democrat.“ (Bernie Sanders?) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566579312574-LAIKBJMXS19T1VWLDSB5/IMG_2372.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum A canister of Zyklon B . Exposed to air it becomes cyanide gas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566579501485-YF41MAAZJSRWDK64ECKV/IMG_2373.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum The people of Wakersdorf protested so vehemently against a plutonium enrichment plant, that construction was halted. 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566579627879-GSJPHFD4IVW7HWF4VTCD/IMG_4173.JPG Bummel Blog - German History Museum They got to see “Rebel Without a Cause” in West Germany, but not in East Germany. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/22/the-pergamon-museum-special-exhibit monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491254164-42K9CPIKKDZ1IFUQMASL/IMG_2350.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. Pergamon (300 bc), a Greek city, was situated in today’s northwest Turkey, now called Bergama. A confederation of German Museums worked with the permission of the Ottoman empire, to bring the ruins of the temple of Athena to Berlin. These scenes were created by Yadegar Asisi. They are projected on a 360 degree screen, which is four stories high. One climbs a column and looks down on a 3d city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491589262-YZR55LBW9G0LG3UA4VB3/IMG_2347.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491648733-361E62GWU8219J1177SJ/IMG_2353.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. Twice life-sized bust of Hercules. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491700498-UA5TJFABXYKXBNYRVGY6/IMG_4078.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. KIng Attalos and friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491769812-9EGMPGK3AV6CDT6O6O2P/IMG_4062.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491792327-ZRIIQ7954NGV7RA0O766/IMG_4069.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491822557-44HV99MQUKFZGRAI5WKD/IMG_2354.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. An assembly of goddesses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566491885849-T927Q8PD2BS8KD2IKCKO/IMG_4081.JPG Bummel Blog - The Pergamon Museum special exhibit. The altar of Athena. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/21/die-berliner-mauer monthly 0.5 2019-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566399770532-AOKHDNAE5WXR5MASJG7L/IMG_4045.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer Green mail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566399841829-2RHT6QMUYJ1784ZV581W/IMG_4046.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566399862267-ALBJDP8H3OK18B81PMYM/IMG_4047.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer Where the wall ran. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566399900146-6J9WRXQ6D96P0HJFRYSH/IMG_2330.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer Framed and behind glass at a Berlin Wall memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566399947346-5SZFQNR43CA225P7TMLY/IMG_4048.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer A way to memorialize the wall and give access to No Man’s Land where about 80 people died trying to cross into West German between 1961 -1989 . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566400251545-DFJ92897FVO91EPFXY49/IMG_4052.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer The site of the wall’s memorial. Next picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566400324951-AWLQZROBAXSSAF3BIZ1E/IMG_2340.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer The memorial. Note the guard tower, upper left. The empty space is between two walls, so-called No Man’s Land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566400401774-QKVI15BCHLAFPEQG8QK3/IMG_2336.JPG Bummel Blog - Die Berliner Mauer A memorial to those who died trying to flee East Germany https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/20/the-berlin-dali-museum monthly 0.5 2019-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319099861-1U2DTUA8A68GKYI1XD1U/IMG_2325.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum From December 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319163108-TMDI8EOUAZVUONN16UZ6/IMG_2323.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum The museum displayed mainly lithographs. No oil paintings, which was disappointing. This piece is called Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319313858-W6YCQFV7MWUF5AIGKCWK/IMG_2324.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum Fight Against the Threat: The Nuclear Windmill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319389322-QTMBJER4Q933AIAGRRMY/IMG_4027.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum One display was of an animation of some of Dali’s paintings. Guess who did the animation? (Hint: the man on the right liked mice.) An accompanying film by Bunuel and Dali was a dazzler of surrealism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319569939-HCJIKYWVFARMUXDP48LT/IMG_4033.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum Ingrid and Peter liked this unnamed lithograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319715344-C4Y222LM29Q0GDSLSQNU/IMG_4036.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum One of many similar, unnamed etchings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319791892-JG8VW09ZMNV5TT1517E8/IMG_4037.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum An enameled bronze statue, somewhat modified by the staff of Scarab magazine (1977) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566319975897-TDO4YDHCONOUNWAXJ25K/IMG_4042.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum Butterfly. None of Dali’s better known pieces and none of his oil paintings were here, a disappointment. Many of the pieces appeared to be studies, not meant for public presentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566320265798-NQ90K1L5XGG7WHNO83F0/IMG_4044.JPG Bummel Blog - The Berlin Dali Museum “People of the world—look at Berlin, where a wall fell, a continent unified itself, and the course of history proved that no challenge is too great for a world that stands together” Barack Obama. Bronze plaque in the floor of the Mall of Berlin, in the Potsdamer Platz. Other plaques were quotations by Merkel, Kennedy, Einstein, and Gandhi. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/19/the-german-spy-museum monthly 0.5 2019-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236223427-D7PVYPO5AEZETOAVQJ8M/IMG_4011.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum The museum presented the preoccupation with espionage beginning in ancient times. Above is a picture of Rose O’Neal Greenhow who spied for the Confederacy during the American Civil War., 1861, helping the Confederate Army to victory in the first Battle of Bull Run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236443103-HYL7LLHPJ85W84SRFJNK/IMG_4015.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum This Navaho code talker was interviewed on video. In all of Japan only one person spoke Navaho, but he or she was ill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236537428-GRZUZ4RK3SWPFFB3ULPM/IMG_2314%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum Poster from WW I. Take care in conversation. The enemy is listening. (Ain’t it the truth.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236644179-PVP71EUKSKUP6PVT0SXM/IMG_2315.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum One of the original 40,000 Enigma machines used by the Germans in WW II. The code was broken by Alan Turing, who was later tried as a homosexual and driven to suicide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236779331-ATJTPW2VUDFBY9D8VS74/IMG_2317%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum Part of a model of the Glienicke Bridge (the Spy Bridge), site of exchanges of spies between East and West. On February 10, 1962, “Colonel Rudolph Abel, the Soviet master spy was exchanged for U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers who was shot down while flying a covert spy mission over the Soviet Union” Berlin and Potsdam Global Guide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236872134-355EIWHER7S9G5RHTHXV/IMG_2318.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum The Glienicke Bridge (model). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566236928640-12706X9KR60T6QDRC0J7/IMG_4013.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum An assassination pistol, which was hidden under a glove. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566237022898-H8N9F0LR36Z72AS7O3UD/IMG_4022.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum Georgi Markov, a dissident writer, “was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service. It has been speculated that they asked the KGB for help.[2]” Wikipedia. Minuscule amount of ricin kill the victim in around four days. The museum illustrated many vicious assassinations or attempts during our times. Agents included VX (Novichok nerve gas) used against Segei and Yullia Skripal (both of who survived) and polonium 210 against Alexander Litvinenko. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566238447942-L4DX297M4C557N557X6P/IMG_4023.JPG Bummel Blog - The German Spy Museum Litvinenko, a British naturalized Russian defector, dying from radiation poisoning. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/18/berlinische-museum-west-eastern-divan-orchestra-open-door-at-the-german-chancery monthly 0.5 2019-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566148028696-6DQFA9F1B91LINTD2MJE/IMG_2279.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery Exhibit of Germany’s ambitious plans to eliminate all nuclear and all coal and oil power plants by 2038. Berlinische Museum of modern art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566148189186-H91RPI2DY5M24TEIZ97Y/IMG_2280.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery Valeska Gert, dancer, actor, cabaret performer, bar owner (lower right). 1920’s. Kurt Tucholsky, Bertolt Brecht, and Sergei Eisenstein were fans. Even in old age she inspired young people in their revolts against confining life styles and art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566148659002-LQ75TTMNDIZGINI8VZK9/IMG_3976.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery Herbert Tobias portrait of Valseka Gert, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566148779120-ABHNRXT648OV3BFJFC4B/IMG_2281.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery Ivan Puni. Still Life with Bottle. 1922. Jewish artist fled to N. Y. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566148851341-VAWLCMVZQZJCHBCN7BMK/IMG_2282.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery El Lissitsky. Three dimensional design from the electromechanical show, Victory of the Sun. 1923 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149040779-6N7E4SA3A0MTK295GCWQ/IMG_2285.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery On the evening of the museum visit, Ingrid and Peter, invited by friend attended the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra’s presentation of three works by Beethoven The director was Daniel Barenboim. He and Edward Said began this orchestra in 1999 with “a group of young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other countries of the Middle East and North Africa.” The aim is to foster peace. This was the 20th anniversary of the orchestra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149426152-VPUGYJGXGVY8XIGGKPG9/IMG_2293.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149454394-WVIO7GPSGZM03HX6UHSD/IMG_2289.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery Michael Barenboim, Daniel’s son, the soloist in Concert for Violine and Orchestra D Major, Op. 61 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149707457-ZCCFB4GU3IIHS5YXCNOE/IMG_4006.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149849426-88JZWYBWFGENVBQ3XZDO/IMG_3958.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery On the way home from the concert celebrating peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566149922483-5QIN49EAOHPMX8LOHHM0/IMG_2300.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery The next day was Open Door at the German Chancery. Peter and Ingrid just missed Angela Merkel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566150087243-OW7FVI0Q9VHGDXG8280U/IMG_3987.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566150113055-U2W5Y0P57G53WLZ4RSO5/IMG_3988.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566150174612-IUOOPKJ2IJMUZQ0W93ZK/IMG_4001.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery From our seats at an outdoor table during a downpour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1566150244779-5HMWQ6QQWG8VT2J5K791/IMG_4002.JPG Bummel Blog - Berlinische Museum. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Open door at the German Chancery https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/16/holocaust-memorial-berlin-and-miscellany monthly 0.5 2019-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565969844742-SYHJJK5DC0M2KJ7X82EG/IMG_2255.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. As Peter and Ingrid walked to the Brandenberg Gate, they saw these African dignitaries leave their hotel. They were accompanied by a long procession of police cars and motorcycles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565970038949-1V1P04WDOWEBEAQD5QC9/IMG_2268.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. Three Trabants in a self-described Trabi procession, passed by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565970099685-A8K7TNFQ87FXXH01EJY9/IMG_2259.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. On the east side of the Brandenburg Gate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565970169508-NNBSPIROPYH5Y45HOZYB/IMG_3944.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. The Goddess Quadriga facing east. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565970295845-OM9538UBCKV3N1K3UDZD/IMG_3945.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. In the guest book Ingrid wrote that there should be a mirror at the exit with the inscription, “What would you have done?” The above-ground memorial consists of more than 2,700 massive, rectangular, coffin-like concrete steles. The underground exhibit is simple and somber, with pictures of the victims and reproductions of their writings (letters, etc.). Though millions died, very few photographs survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565970927774-8WM4WMV2EI2AVI8GPSRC/IMG_3948.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. Most concentration camps were in Eastern Europe. Note some in North Africa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565971017019-OZ5XU9C02YMH75SMH7EM/IMG_2262.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. The Warsaw Ghetto boy in the well-known photo during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. SS-Rottenfuehrer Josef Blosche points a submachine gun in his direction. In 1933, 160,00 Jews lived in Berlin. Ninety thousand emigrated; fifty-five thousand were killed.; seven thousand committed suicide; eight thousand survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565971427969-7LZ8ABU7IU8WLB540MHK/IMG_3949.JPG Bummel Blog - Holocaust Memorial, Berlin. And miscellany. A month before the end of the war the SS attempted to move concentration camp prisoner, hiding them below deck on the Cap Arcona. the British strafed the ship, sinking it. More than 7,000 people died. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/15/the-new-museum-new-because-it-was-renovated-after-ww-ii monthly 0.5 2019-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565875853408-E1KB0O145B6FULDWUXZI/IMG_2231.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II View across the Spree River at the Old Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565876115225-7876JQCBFK46JWNIQ99G/IMG_3919.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Seated figure of the steward Nemti-hotep. Nineteenth century b.c. (Not wearing plaid shirt.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565877448912-H2J7255OGBTS0GKARWYV/IMG_3925.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Psammetic , a scribe, and his family. Approx. 7th century b.c. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565878108684-52OAD9ZSQFHX7FF639TW/IMG_3932.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Offering processional. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565878790520-SI6AU8NKB549LK36BH0H/IMG_3935.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Portrait of Otto Uuuuuuh in Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565880383928-W3PC64HQ2AGBA5CVU5B6/IMG_3942.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565880505000-KB5LYWAFIKJQ0SWJXORJ/IMG_3938.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II View from the third floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565875928126-H1WCCZCSQPEVQ69IA3ZW/IMG_2237.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II On one of four floors in the New Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565877256179-LT6J5FHS3ZSYR8XQ70DX/IMG_3921.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Standing figure of a female offering bearer. 20th century b. c. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565878067712-MASBIOFR0PVNPB34XDGX/IMG_3928.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565878187603-1AXCKSZLPHEAZDIUI7UO/IMG_3933.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Dorothea Viehmann. What is she doing here among these ancient Egyptians. An exhibit described the development of story telling among the Germans, Egyptians, and Arabs. Frau Viehman was a major source for the brothers Grimm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565878575497-P23I1DK9GLI8FJ8ZLFU4/IMG_2247.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Skull and reconstruction of head and face of an eleven-year-old Neanderthal, found in a grave, illustrating that the Neanderthal’s buried their dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565880646897-P0EJS3AQRR8K3BWV6YRD/IMG_2249.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Gold hat found 1835. from 1400 - 1300 b.c. Worn by priests. Only part of the hat is shown here so that some of the detail can be seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565880551404-I7BZTMVDHOZ30GVSF94F/IMG_2250.JPG Bummel Blog - The New Museum. New because it was renovated after WW II Bronze sidewalk plaques. (Stolpersteine) The Aronsbach family was sent to Riga in 1942 and murdered. Manfred was six. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/14/more-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565795612230-3UILBLAR69RVJRVP3LV3/IMG_2221.JPG Bummel Blog - More Berlin Peter’s family once had a monkey named Zippy. Far and wide, everyone has heard of him, so we were not at all surprised to find his likeness here at KaDeWe, the largest department store in Europe. Ingrid considered buying this lamp for Peter’s sister but better judgement— and Peter’s screaming— prevailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565796020048-KMJ53JDSBBGS0P3QG764/IMG_2222.JPG Bummel Blog - More Berlin Potzdammer Platz again where Ingrid and Peter found a Nordsee chain to buy more Matjes herring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565796133029-XB69YHUF19B84EEYTJY9/IMG_2228.JPG Bummel Blog - More Berlin A view north on our street. Note the red awning and further up the street (to the left of the photo) a red car. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565796223616-LC0HG1HUBK508IK1OFFA/IMG_2229.JPG Bummel Blog - More Berlin The red car is parked to the left of our door, the white door to the right of the red door. The second story from the top is our story, but our apartment is in back, viewing the courtyard. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/13/a-memorial-in-wittlohe-visit-with-the-spoeringlandwehr-family-return-to-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719515679-BUVJ5Z3T4EEZW0V3C14E/IMG_2200.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. Our friend enlisted in the army at age 17. He is seen here in an interview by a member of the church community of Wittlohe. This along with other exhibits, such as letters from soldiers, is meant to illustrate for the younger generation the pain and suffering of war and to serve as a warning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719594453-3B5Z0M978B5P0JAF2FI9/IMG_2205.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719644484-F23CH2LV7D6SMK7G140Q/IMG_2204.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. You’ll remember from earlier posts the idyllic picture of the kayakers on the Aller River and also that thirteen English soldiers drowned in the river near Otersen in WW II. This photo is of the British crossing into Otersen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719692156-7WQSPZYPDXN83YIR6AJG/IMG_2208.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. The local church community, worried about climate change, in 2010 began planting trees, fully aware that this a very small gesture. Here is Willie with one of his daughters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719717177-RYE87WHDFM0CGQV56GY9/IMG_2211.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. The house where we had dinner with her family last night, Monday, the 12th of August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719752648-4C2TL00E8QSR1BJNYXMD/IMG_2213.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. Back in Berlin, on the way to see the Brandenburg Gate, we examine our images on a screen in the subway station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719785987-0JL5IS9SKBJ451G09ET9/IMG_3900.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. Built two hundred years ago the Brandenburg Gate stood for twenty-eight years between East and West Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719809240-92RC2D1V4Q9MN7865H0Z/IMG_3906.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. Far in the background is the television tower—der lange Lulatsch—that was a symbol of east Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565719829564-NF5U03CA5XVDNQB3DOW1/IMG_2220.JPG Bummel Blog - A memorial in Wittlohe. Visit with the Spoering/Landwehr family. Return to Berlin. The Berlin Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Holocaust Memorial, is near the Brandenberg Gate. (More about this later.) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/12/in-verden monthly 0.5 2019-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565675607994-Z1YMS266ILRZI50VRZ4P/IMG_2193.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden Verden. Pop. around 16,000 Many riding shows held here. This view of the pedestrian way which traverses all of the old town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565675779296-9UGUOQ47LZ20AJEVRA4Q/IMG_3876.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden The cathedral of Maria and Caecelia. A mixture of Roman and early Gothic architecture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565676301991-UX74QPUUHF03OB1PQ3NB/IMG_3884.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden The Johannes church in Roman style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565675939311-1VGM4FR0XX8EIPFY2LH3/IMG_2196%281%29.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden A memorial to former Jewish residents who were sent to various concentration camps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565676113546-12TBKRWN82SVRPIT8815/IMG_3881.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden The old town hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565676355105-YO5M386F508XQPM3ZUKH/IMG_3890.JPG Bummel Blog - In Verden The oldest house in Verden, built 1577. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/11/in-the-fields-of-otersen monthly 0.5 2019-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565534581862-8GVELMGE8L601EWTJYM1/IMG_3852.JPG Bummel Blog - In the fields of Otersen Preparing the barn for a belated 50th and 18th year birthday party for Steffen and his son. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565533557936-93MQ40RKMTTWOL5FAUJG/IMG_2185.JPG Bummel Blog - In the fields of Otersen Recently built landing on a small lake on Steffen’s land.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565533589658-1ZI0FODJNTLNYWOSD018/IMG_2186.JPG Bummel Blog - In the fields of Otersen Fields of Otersen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565533619582-QQXM1JJ6OT4WBZEHY054/IMG_2189.JPG Bummel Blog - In the fields of Otersen Kayakers on the Aller river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565533671547-V38CHDKXBE0ROP84J10S/IMG_3859.JPG Bummel Blog - In the fields of Otersen Twenty-four days before the end of WWII, the war came to Otersen. Between April 4th and April 10th, 43 residents of Otersen went missing or were killed. This gravestone in one of 29 in a small graveyard for soldiers whose homes were in Otersen. Hans Lenkersdorf died at 18. Nearby in the Aller river thirteen English soldiers drowned. Fifty million died in WW II. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/10/trip-to-otersen-founded-782-half-way-between-hanover-and-bremen-older-than-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452375852-A8H34C1U7XOKDUNYGPE9/IMG_3840.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin Niedersaechsischer Baustil. Lower Saxony farm house bult late seventeenth century. Typical for Otersen where once twenty-two farms thrived but now only four remain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452613011-GM7WY9S3CRVH1UJZQO4Q/IMG_2177.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin Our gracious hosts rented this timbered vacation house for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452672369-OFGECE5JI18RH5B1UM2G/IMG_3842.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin Side view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452704382-S6HE8CPBM9BN1JTRBT9X/IMG_2178.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin Our living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452774393-L8UYAQJTRT77Y6QL444B/IMG_2183.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin Our hostess’s father and sons were, as you can see, hunters. (different house) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565452880715-C1PYXGH3U8809QGIVSY9/IMG_3849.JPG Bummel Blog - Trip to Otersen, founded 782, half way between Hanover and Bremen, older than Berlin One of our hosts and his father-in-law, age 92. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/9/jeco3kx0cw2di5ew3a4ei8k3meendl monthly 0.5 2019-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565369002532-O88QWKRH1KM6M8SB4GPR/IMG_2172.JPG Bummel Blog - Third day in Berlin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565369164848-OGB5NT5P8C70IXUBNG7E/IMG_2173.JPG Bummel Blog - Third day in Berlin. In Amsterdam we learned how to dry clothing, so except for the lone sock, it went off without a hitch today. Peter swam in the morning (pool very crowded). Peter and Ingrid shopped at Karstadt and the following picture shows their most important purchase: Matjes herring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565369503184-27ATVRGYD0XIMQ2X8H97/IMG_2170.JPG Bummel Blog - Third day in Berlin. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/8/third-day-in-berlin monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565296439653-SM37VH1A6QW8E32OUEJD/IMG_2161.JPG Bummel Blog - Second day in Berlin The Harnacks organized against the Nazi’s. They were executed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565296582566-H6AKSZFHI4IMG73ZCF9Q/IMG_3833.JPG Bummel Blog - Second day in Berlin Viewed from our window at night. Interpretation up to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565296656718-G9NVXZBUVZILRASYCS26/IMG_3834.JPG Bummel Blog - Second day in Berlin Three techies ignoring each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565296803461-WMSIDSOSV5KQ8LZBHBGE/IMG_2162.JPG Bummel Blog - Second day in Berlin Typical light-hearted Berlinerin playing with her granddaughter’s toy grocery store (Kaufladen) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/7/first-day-in-berlin-on-the-kastanienallee-chestnut-alley monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565199772985-S8L12QP98L6VDVPH9A1K/IMG_2156.JPG Bummel Blog - First day in Berlin on the Kastanienallee (Chestnut Alley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565199138240-LU6GD2NLPQJMESJPWW5C/IMG_3822.JPG Bummel Blog - First day in Berlin on the Kastanienallee (Chestnut Alley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565199162500-YQ2XUI9PFFPFFPF5LV6I/IMG_2157.JPG Bummel Blog - First day in Berlin on the Kastanienallee (Chestnut Alley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565199186770-R64JKE637QQISOZ94NZ5/IMG_3824.JPG Bummel Blog - First day in Berlin on the Kastanienallee (Chestnut Alley) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565199228204-YRSR6R4GZ2Q6TW0OCKQG/IMG_3825.JPG Bummel Blog - First day in Berlin on the Kastanienallee (Chestnut Alley) https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/8/6/second-day-in-iceland-trip-to-reykjavik monthly 0.5 2019-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565118340299-P54CVR7LS743TDH1FPZE/IMG_3811.JPG Bummel Blog - Second Day in Iceland. Trip to Reykjavik We took a one hour bus ride from the airport to Reykjavik. This is The Water Carrier (1937) by Asmundur Sveinsson, honoring hard-working women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565118577886-S5R6Q0CR2398AOP6JS81/IMG_3812.JPG Bummel Blog - Second Day in Iceland. Trip to Reykjavik Modelling a sweater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565118682478-HF07PJGNO9F542TTT80M/IMG_3814.JPG Bummel Blog - Second Day in Iceland. Trip to Reykjavik Shopping area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565118767594-NS19WMNE9GVRDHBZB8KC/IMG_3816.JPG Bummel Blog - Second Day in Iceland. Trip to Reykjavik We considered buying a drone for everyone on our gift list but didn’t like the color scheme. https://www.zunderlee.net/bummel-blog/2019/7/21/testing-our-new-blog monthly 0.5 2019-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565089172867-147BFPZX39YJRSNI1EIT/IMG_3807.JPG Bummel Blog - Short stay in Iceland. At the airport in Keflavik. That is not an egg on Ingrid’s head. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565089285588-Y9L8ZZA22WPVBOWHXJPO/IMG_3808.JPG Bummel Blog - Short stay in Iceland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565089593762-VKMLIURF0TOJG4BSYD1Y/IMG_3809.JPG Bummel Blog - Short stay in Iceland. Fishing docks in Keflavik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1565089696488-YF2VW0QIYA0D8DL7BARD/IMG_3810.JPG Bummel Blog - Short stay in Iceland. The yellow disks hold fishing lines with multiple hooks. Please note that these four pictures were taken on the 5th of August in Keflavik. https://www.zunderlee.net/schwane-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456861631707-Q984I9AX2NYXST1ORUVB/3.jpg Schwäne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778213220-KRMLQULZ9K5DO2D19SFS/image-asset.jpeg Schwäne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778148407-LW8XWNCIRVQXOKWDMUAY/image-asset.jpeg Schwäne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778191954-MYS1Y99SFIHN5VE81TX9/image-asset.jpeg Schwäne https://www.zunderlee.net/dunst-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456780247407-NJTB6A573YWWOW9HZ9LT/13.jpg Dunst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778834769-M9LWCCAJ69VZ5U31H1C0/image-asset.jpeg Dunst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456778986994-8SITB7GC3KALT3OVESUA/image-asset.jpeg Dunst https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456780153446-79H4WTH2QLO7K7E0ORC6/6.jpg Dunst https://www.zunderlee.net/nacht-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456783943006-7TCJ0ZZ2NS58BMQHHRKC/83.jpg Nacht https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456780029777-ONQAU9WY23IASQHF9UK8/image-asset.jpeg Nacht https://www.zunderlee.net/pier-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865378898-3MCYVF5K3NIXRF0ZVO8T/30.jpg Pier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865454553-1E8F4QI8XZTMBI9HA6B0/30.jpg Pier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865586838-V8A9GRGPOYMWOVXYIU22/35.jpg Pier https://www.zunderlee.net/stein-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456944933692-TOA1PP8PC846S793GKKD/49.jpg Stein https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456945136383-A1K8S5BMS4FLG0IET2V8/49.jpg Stein https://www.zunderlee.net/schwartzweiss-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865071576-9LJLBGX0FSTBTYEQNUIM/25.jpg Schwarzweiß https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456864812086-RW8U9TFHAW9J2D5YJH4R/25.jpg Schwarzweiß https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456864831358-M96K19MDDRPEIWO6TV48/27.jpg Schwarzweiß https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456864939887-HMFFUNV15800UGT1G07V/28.jpg Schwarzweiß https://www.zunderlee.net/gebaude-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851111610-486A5E4H0OE915O3XOHM/54.jpg Gebäude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851111610-486A5E4H0OE915O3XOHM/54.jpg Gebäude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851131188-P0LLWVYC2DCMARUN1W4G/7.jpg Gebäude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851177822-POR5JXIXGIJ7IQRVV8K6/53.jpg Gebäude https://www.zunderlee.net/warten-avenue daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851022917-I14CZYTKH20F3NT8F5T0/4.jpg Warten https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865650841-10UI2COEII1AMMBYAJ7V/4.jpg Warten https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456866729485-AU54ITLG388C0AVHY0D8/47.jpg Warten https://www.zunderlee.net/the-house daily 0.75 2019-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1483138087870-REZTEV8QC78BHEA2HBRX/IMG_0837.JPG Starting point Seattle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1482948674904-Y26P7ILNFAIUIXGVFCT0/IMG_0043.JPG Starting point Seattle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1483392600947-55FTRIMP8P703575JMIS/image-asset.jpeg Starting point Seattle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5862b2502e69cfbb3c837b47/1563738999254-KY1Y5P3J02UEH5E08RXR/IMG_2126.JPG Starting point Seattle