Neue Synagogue: the gold plated roof of the Moorish style main synagogue in Berlin as seen from the bridge to Museum Island. Construction on the synagogue begun in 1859. It was saved from total destruction during Kristallnacht (1938) only to be bombed out by the British in 1943-1944. A storm drain grate: It displays the […]
Pergamon Museum (Berlin) Highlights
We found ourselves at the end of our Berlin vacation not having yet gone to a single museum. So after meeting up with old childhood friends, and having some downtime before our “next meeting”, for this is what the vacation had become, we went to the Pergamon Museum. It was originally built between 1910 and […]
Gustatory memories of Berlin
Part of the experience of travel is the food. It doesn’t even have to be gourmet. I love local street food. Ironic, as as an infectious disease physician I frequently counsel against eating and drinking purchases from street vendors when travelling internationally so as to not acquire a food borne illness. Even better is the […]
Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was built in the 1890s under direction of Kaiser Wilhelm II to honour his grandfather Kaiser Wilhelm I. It is one of Berlin’s famous landmarks, now more so for its ruins as it was largely destroyed by bombs in 1943 (World War II). A newer church was built on the […]
Charlottenburg First School & Havel School Berlin
On Wednesday, we decided to go visit my former schools in the former West Berlin. They were part of the school system for the children of the British Allies (military) stationed in Germany. I attended class 3 and 4 at Charlottenburg First School. I remember Mrs. Davies and Mrs. Folkes (?sp) as my teachers but […]
Berlin in four hours
We took an insightful tour of Berlin with Insider Tours. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and spoke with eloquence and humour, which was great as the tour, which took us from Hackescher Markt to Brandenburg Tor, was about 4 hours long. The tour was supposed to be a historical overview of Berlin and it was […]
Leninallee 175 Where are you?
Today was to be the big reveal. Returning to the place we called home in our childhood. We knew the street was no longer named after Lenin, but instead reverted back to it’s previous name Landsberger Allee, a major street easily found on the transport maps. We had in our heads what we expected to […]
Wilkommen in Berlin
We Made It! We got to the airport with plenty of time to spare only to find out that our plane was to be delayed an hour and a half. Something about President Obama in our air-space. We ended up requiring a gate change and a delay of over two hours. Exhausted, I slept quite […]
Panic! Or how not to travel
It was the eve of our departure to Berlin and I was finally in New York – exhausted. It had been quite a hectic few weeks as my two partners at work had taken staggered vacations and it was quite busy. I was routinely getting home after 9pm and hardly sleeping at night. But I […]
Trip Down Memory Lane
Many readers of this blog know that I spent some time in my childhood in Germany. Four years + in Berlin, to be exact. Living in the East and schooling in the West to be more exact. My sisters and I always speak of that time in our lives with fondness. We had the perfect […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.