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Brandenburger Tor, mit Starbucks  
   

Brandenburger Tor, mit Starbucks

View of the Brandenburg Gate through the window of the Pariser Platz Starbucks. Everything you see here used to be the "death strip" no-man's land around the Berlin Wall. Progress!
Ich bin ein Ostberliner!

June 10th 2005
Or, perhaps, eine Ostberlinerin. (I can do the grating Boston accent, too, y'all know I can.) We have a spectacular studio apartment on Linienstraße in East, yes East, Berlin. Words cannot even describe how cool it is to be in the East and how ridiculously normal a place it is. The proprietors are Rick-approved and we're pretty sure he has steered us well. Today we took the ... read more
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German Flag As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20t... ... read more
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