Ich bin ein Berliner

Four very nice days were spent in Berlin. Neither me nor Mr Darling hade been there before, and now it was time! It was cold and rained a lot - but who care about such trifling details?! We acted like real tourists and went to all the "musts", tried currywurst (we liked very much!), bought chocolate-christmas-calenders at KaDeWe and aired our very dusty German. The Germans were very polite and didn´t mind our grammatical errors.



We went round by U-Bahn and S-Bahn a lot. Berlin is as full of shops as any other city, all sorts of shops, but strangely enough we never came upon any yarn-shops. Was this very clever planning on Mr Darling´s part...?

And at Waisenstrasse there it was: Die Mauer = The Wall!! A real treat and well worthy of a photo. Wait a minute, you are thinking, that is not Die Mauer!! It wasn´t situated there and it was made of concrete!

But this really is IT, the old city wall, built around Berlin and Cölln during the second half of the 13th century. It was enlarged during the 14th century, but got torned down in the 17th century, after it has lost its military usefullness. A few pieces of it still stands. Amazingly enough, after everything Berlin has been through! (Yes, we visited the remains of the other wall as well).

This was really my kind of holiday: I love visiting big citys! To walk around and look at houses, visit museums and historical buildings, and to ponder about the city´s history. My favourite city? Well, Stockholm, of course! And one of the great joys of travelling is coming home again.

Knit-wise it wasn´t a very productive holiday! My knitting was regarded very suspiciously at the airport-security, both at Arlanda and Tegel, but in the end was allowed to pass - after I had taken of my boots to have them specially searched. I knitted on the plane and then dutifully carried the sock-in-process around Berlin. So it´s a sock that has seen some of the world.

It´s bittery cold and the papers have huge head-lines of coming snow-storms. But this year we are prepared!! Winter-clothes has been carried down from the attic and the car is fitted with winter-tyres. Welcome, King Bore, we are ready!