We left for our week long class trip to Weimar and then Berlin only four days after arriving in Germany. Weimar is a beautiful city with brick streets, a rich cultural history and famous buildings. Some of these buildings include: Hans Christian-Anderson's home, Goethe's home (Germany's Shakespeare equivalent), Bach's performance hall, a churhc Martin Luther frequently preached at and a hotel which housed Hitler for an extended period. Most of them had to be partially reconstructed after WWII bombing recked havoc on this artsy town. We toured the city with a native who experienced some of it first hand. For dinner we went to an underground restaurant called a Ratsteller, where I experience, yet again a delicious new dish. It was a Russian soup, Soljanka, and a warm baguette. It had sliced pickels, shredded beef a
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