Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Berlin, Europe 2011, Day 21

After a wonderful evening on the town in Berlin, we got a slow start to the morning. A few days prior, I was e-introduced (mutual friend sent an email to both of us which Gmail now believes we have sent back and forth over 70 times) to a new friend, Rachel, who just moved to Berlin from New York for her work. Rachel was to join the evening program at Arena.

We planned to meet at KaDaWe. It’s a department store like Harrodd’s. It also has several thousand kinds of cheese, and several restaurants on it’s roof. We went up to the top of the building, which had a very nice view of the city. Unfortunately, we were rushed out before Rachel arrived. The Germans are serious about their closing times.

(note: pictures shamelessly ripped off of Rachel's awesome blog: Guide to Menhatten.

We met Rachel outside of KaDaWe and then took the U-Bahn to the Arena. 

The Arena is a riverside live-music venue that looks out onto the Spree and has a pool that you can swim in where it looks as if you are swimming in the Spree. The concert ended relatively early and we headed in for the night.

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