Ellisa is in Berlin this summer doing an internship with the American Embassy there, which looks like this from the outside:
This is her third time in Berlin (she's been there before for a study abroad program and another internship), so she's very familiar with the city and likes it a lot. Since I've never even been to Germany before, it was fun for me to have a German-speaking tour guide and friend to show me around. When I arrived, she gave me a tour of the embassy (her German host family also came along, they're incredibly sweet), which was really interesting. I then walked around by myself for a few hours in the 90-degree heat while Ellisa finished her work day, and discovered odd sights like this:
I met up with Ellisa Friday night after she got out of work and we went out to dinner and got a quick drink before deciding we were exhausted and heading home to crash.
The next day we walked all around the city and Ellisa showed me several interesting parts of town, including a really nice outdoor market with fantastic looking bread and pastries, the Turkish area, and what Ellisa calls the "pretty" part of Berlin. Here are a few photos from the day:
Ellisa waiting for our Indian food to come
Cheers to Berlin!
Enjoying the day
It was a short but fun trip and I'm so glad I got to visit her before I head back to the States next weekend!
1 comment:
That looks like a pretty good dark beer you are drinking. Our neighbor in TL likes German Lager beers; he says there are no good lagers in the US that he has found.
He deosn't care for ales either.
Dad
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