Berlin Trip

Well, I have been in Berlin now for the past five days, and while I can say that I am enjoying myself, it would be untrue for me to say that I am having as much fun as I did in Paris. It isn´t that Berlin is bad, or anything like that...It just is not as exciting as Paris was. Interestingly it is true that the majority of people that we have run into do, in fact, speak very good English...and also, most people here are quite friendly. Finding vegan food has been challenging...mostly hit or miss, because some of the information on Happy Cow.net has not always been the most up-to-date, but for the most part I´ve had no trouble eating. We went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe a couple days ago, and I am not ashamed to admit that I had to compose myself because I could not help but cry. Today, we went to the Sachsenhousen Concentration Camp, which also was quite shocking...It´s just so hard for me to believe that people could actually be CAPABLE of that type of savagery and that much evil. But of course it did happen. I couldn´t help but think of my two Jewish friends Kim and Virgil, and how much different the world might have been for them if Hitler had won the war, instead of losing it. I´m so glad that he did not win it. In any event, we´ve seen several other sites around Berlin so far, and as I said, it´s been an enjoyable trip, but I did like Paris more. One thing I can´t get over here is all the graffiti all over everything! There is graffiti on SO MANY buildings here, all over the place! It´s not like it´s just in one place, either...It is everywhere! So that took some getting used to. I do miss my fur babies though, and I´m ready to get back to them...But we´ve still got quite a bit to see!