When we last saw Lutz, 5th February, he offered an open-ended invitation to visit with him at his home in Oranienburg near Berlin.
I contacted him to see if he was around this week and if the invitation still stood.
He confirmed that,although he was busy, he was and we decided to make the 600km detour over to his to stay a few days.
Following a great evening spent with our hosts Lutz, Antje and Lisa, Lutz kindly offered to drive us into Berlin today and take us to some special parts of the city before he headed off to get on with domestic chores of his own. Continue reading Berlin
We had both seen the film, The Bridge of Spies, with the brilliant Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks, and Ray remembered, during his
childhood, the U-2 spy plane incident, which ultimately involved a prisoner exchange on Glienicke Bridge.
The bridge was about a one hour drive from our location in Oranienburg. The bridge connects Potsdam, the capital city of Brandenburg with Berlin and crosses the Havel River. The bridge itself is named after the Glienicke Palace which is located on the east bank of the river. Continue reading Glienicke Bridge, Potsdam