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One of my favorite photography galleries in Berlin is the C/O gallery. While they’ve hosted interesting photography exhibits in the past, one of my favorite reasons for visiting the photo gallery is the building itself. The C/O gallery is currently housed in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt) building. The building, on a prominent corner …

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well hey, a blogpost— Went to see a Shakespeare play this weekend with some friends—Romeo und Julia. Besides briefly running into some sort of outdoor Shakespeare production at Görlitzer Park last summer, I haven’t seen any theater production in years. And though this one was nice and all…it was in German. Shakespeare in German seemed …

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In my continued quest to find inspiration, yesterday I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. The museum (in an old train station) exhibits mostly contemporary art but I hadn’t yet visited despite living in Berlin for who knows how long…. I was most interested in the temporary exhibit featuring work by the Japanese composer & visual …

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Since living in Germany I’ve learned more than a handful of new German words. I arrived knowing “gesundheit” and “kindergarten” but something else I’ve added to my lexicon: marzipan. Marzipan isn’t completely a foreign thing to Americans, but it’s not something I was very familiar with until I visited Lübeck, Germany back in December. The …

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Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial Just outside Berlin is the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial. Under Nazi Germany, the concentration camp was used first as a work camp for political prisoners until eventually it was expanded and enlarged to also include facilities for mass murder. After WWII, Sachsenhausen was briefly used by the Soviets to house Nazi …

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Sorry if the photo is a bit blurry but my hands were cold. This is a shot of one of the many stands at the Christmas market (or Weihnachtsmarkt in German) in Schmalkalden, Germany. I was visiting this central German town on part of a chocolate & candy tour through Germany. Schmalkalden is in a …

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Whether it’s the crappy weather or just my sorry mood, inspiration has been lacking in my life since the new year. So to fight it off, I spent this past weekend trying to improve my mood. First with the first plane ticket purchase I’ve made in MONTHS (hellllooo Norway in March!) and second with a …

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