Last Thursday (8/20), Bruce and I met with two members of our travel group, Kathy Moses and Diane Rice. Diane is the German teacher who got the trip together for our Roanoke group. Kathy and her daughter, Perrie, know Reid! (perrie and Reid went to high school together!) Anyway, we met to reminisce about the trip and Diane suggested some movies about Berlin when it was divided. Please note, these are subtitled in English and German movies often have at least one sex scene.

"Sonnenalle", "Goodbye Lenin", "The Tunnel" and "Marx and Coca Cola" were all suggested by Diane. "Sonnenalle" is about a street that was cut in half by the Wall, "Goodbye Lenin" is about a son trying to protect his mother from learning anything upsetting after awaking from a coma. The Wall had just come down and he is afraid of how she will react! I can't remember the plots of the other two.

Day three, we travelled to Prague but stopped in Dresden to see a museum, the buildings and to have lunch.

Next post---Dresden!!