We drove in the dark home to Zhelendorf and met the people. It was good to meet them all again. We go far back. I was there in that house first when I was 16. Here are a few pictures from the first days and then I will show something from the city and the places where we went.
Adda was mostly shopping but we did other things too. It is so much inexpensive to shop here and she needed new cloths for the children and her self.
A part of the garden which is 1500 square meters.
Eka´s house is always full of people. Adda is standing there. This house was bombed down in the war and Ekas grandmother Anna build it all by her self again. Eka was in Thuringen until she was 13. Then they came back.
Adda, Udo, and Manal Eka's eldest grandchild . She lives in the US and was staying there, learning German and doing well.
Adda, I and Udo, Eka's brother who was also staying there at the time and he did a lot of garden work, also repairs. He is very handy. He lives in Erlangen.
Eka's mother which I call aunt Thea is almost 104 years old. She reads every day, watches her programs on TV. does crosswords and more. she knows a lot and is very intelligent.
Berlin is to me, life of rails, S bahn, U bahn , buses , trams and so on. I bought for each of us a weeks card, for the public transport and we used them well.
You really keep your self in training going up and down the stairs at the railway stations in Berlin. This is our home station.
Next part was Steglitz, that is it used to be, our part Zhelendorf belongs to Steglitz now. We went shopping there and this is the black city hall of Stegliz which is really a landmark, you know you are in Steglitz when you see it. It is now empty and there has been talk of tearing it down. I hope they don't do it. In Steglitz I wanted to take Adda to a restaurant in a tower called the Beer pencil but alas it had been closed.
We were invited to Walle our friend who lives 20 minutes away if you walk. We went through the garden colonies which are between Walle and Eka and we enjoyed the vegetation
One of the garden houses on they way. There are thousands of them all over Berlin and they give pleasure to city people. Eka and Walle live in a neighborhood where there are big gardens and don't need one of those.
We had a lovely evening with Walle and Dieter. There we are in the garden eating German evening bread as they call it. Enjoying the summer. When we went home Walle and Dieter did not want us to go alone. Not because of dangerous people no, because of wild hogs that have been a plague in Berlin lately. We insisted on going alone.
In beautiful moon light we walked home and met no wild hogs.
There are still places in Berlin where they have gas lights and I think they are so pretty.
