and exerpt from Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
by Susan Jane Gilman
We arrived safely in Berlin and managed to make it safely to our hostel-- which was a bit further from the airport than expected.
I only have pictures of the inside of the hostel because the outside was... a little depressing. Lets just say it was in the eastern part of east Berlin.
The inside, however, was delightful. We were housed in the Sesame Street wing. Both of us were dead tired when we got to the hostel but we had to smile a bit when Cookie Monster is right outside your door.
Our room was not as innocently decorated. On the wall was a giant painting of a demon-possessed cowboy, a skeleton, and a disembodied eye driving some sort of hell-car towards a haunted house. I think it was Berlin's way of saying "Welcome to Berlin-- sweet dreams!" We embraced the cheerful hellscape, however, and promptly slept for 14hrs.
NEXT DAY: Berlin!
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