[Leica] European travel query

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At 01:02 PM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
>You had a choice of food and sleep, which can be met any time, and a 
>world-class camera museum?  Hmm.  A hard-core guy would have figured 
>out he could sleep on the train back and gone for the museum!  <he grins>
>
>Marc

I was in Berlin (West Berlin at the time) with my husband and 4 kids 
on the night that the Berlin Wall came down.  There were no places to 
sleep but I wasn't about to miss it.  All 6 of us slept in a tiny 
little rental car.  We got up early the next morning and went looking 
for a chisel because all of the kids wanted a piece of the Berlin 
Wall.  Every hardware store was sold out of chisels and hammers.  We 
finally bought a small chisel from somebody on the street.  We still 
have several huge chunks of the wall. I also have quite a few photos 
- somewhere.  We went through the Brandenburg gate and into East 
Berlin with the first crowds.  Looks like people would have learned 
about walls but history seems determined to repeat itself.

Tina

Tina Manley
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