then she and i went off to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the new one by the brandenburg gate, which was very intense, a really well-done monument and gallery below. i felt weird taking pictures there even though a lot of people were. we walked through the tiergarten to the sony center, a HUGE new mall and condo complex, where i found a german kitchen store with a sale ... trouble!
then we met daniel at an ice cream cafe, which apparently are all over the place there. the whole menu was ice cream concoctions, including a plate of "spaghetti" or "lasagna" all made out of ice cream. yum. and expensive - 6-10 euros for one of these. it's the breakfast dilemma in a different form: usually savory-or-sweet?!?! (which is solved by getting a monte cristo), but here chocolate-or-fruit?!?! (which corinna solves by getting fruit but ordering chocolate for daniel).
mine, with some kind of egg cream liquer on top.
daniel took us on a driving tour next, including karl marx allee with its big box apartments leftover from communism, and then we had a spanish dinner in prenzlauerberg (where they live) followed by good drinks at Tarot, one of corinna's favorite bars, where i learned what "longdrinks" are. rather, i learned that the germans have a term for a category i didn't know had a name. we walked through the kulturbrauerei, which i posted about here. another pic:
meanwhile, my nice little swollen jellyfish imprint had turned into an oozing burn. you can see the outline more than the ooze here. luckily i was staying with 2 doctors who set me up.
