I went to Berlin. I saw lots of monuments , the wall, lot of grafitti, parts of the remains of the wall, and a concenration camp, as well as batya :-). Perhaps more later.

In other news, on the plane overI read, among other things, this sentence that I liked:
"Like all their inabilities to communicate, this too had a virtuous motive."

I arrived in Berlin only 6 hours later than scheduled. My luggage, which I had checked in order to take with me a kitchen knife, joined me about 2 days after that. On the way back I decided to avoid such problems and have so far sucessfully brought my 4 inch knife through two security checkpoints/scanners. Not that this is at all surprising...