Part one: Germany
I was truly, wonderfully spoiled as a child, with wonderful vacations all over the world, because my father was a pilot for Pan Am. We could fly for free. My own children don't get the same privilege, and it pains me.
I have decided to create a virtual vacation for us. I am going to post pictures of the places I'd like to go with my family if we could afford it. I'll include Sweden, of course, and the other scandinavian countries; then Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, etc. But I'm starting with Germany, because of the Neuschwanstein Castle, where I went once, as a preteen or teenager.
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| Winter Magic Castle |
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| I think in heaven, some people live in castles like this. |
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| The inside is not exactly cozy! But very fine. |
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| Inside |
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View from Neuschwanstein Castle
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Next, on to Berlin, my city of Birth. There's a small castle on Peacock Island in Lake Wannsee, in Berlin.
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| By ferry to Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) |
Now, on to downtown Berlin and the famous wall:
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| This is what the wall looked like when I lived in Berlin, in the 1980s. |
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| Ku'Damm, the main street downtown, with its bombed-out church since World War II. |
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| Tempelhof Airport in Berlin |
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| Ronald Reagan visited Berlin. I saw him (from afar) there, and I later learned that he was instrumental in getting the wall torn down! Miracles do happen. No one ever could have imagined that wall would ever go away. It was incredible. |
An East Berlin checkpoint. Machine gun-toting guards watched the wall day and night. How creepy. How mundane it became, yet how cruel and deadly it was for so very long for millions of East Berliners!
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| This is what the checkpoints looked like when I lived there in the 80s. This is from the West side, the point between freedom and imprisonment. |
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| My friends and I used to shop here. Eighth grade. |
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