Nephew Jason and I were very smitten with Berlin, truly one of the great cities of the world. We stayed in a wonderful hostel off of Friedrikstrasse, originally part of East Berlin (called the Mitte region today). We liked the East Side Gallery a lot (a separate gallery here) and Kreuzberg, an ethnic, arty area; we both decided we'd get a place here if we lived in Berlin. We made a side trip to Potsdam, a lovely historic town with large urban garden to the south.
