a blog by Peter Leonard
In between sessions at the Fulbright Seminar I set off on a walk around Berlin, passing by the new American Embassy which is nearing completion on Brandenburg Tor:
The new headquarters of the large Axel Springer publishing company stands on the former site of a church:
I went through the Jewish Museum in 2003, so this time I just spent some time walking around the exterior of the building:
From the Museum I walked south, crossed the river and into the more urban area of Kreuzberg:
Lunch was at the Marheineke Markthalle, where I finally settled on some amazing falafel (only €2!) after passing by a number of booths with terrific assortments of food, such as that shown below. The cost/quality ratio food in Berlin, and especially Kreuzberg, is enough to make me wish I had learned German instead of Swedish as a foreign language.
