I’ll say a little prayer for you
Back from Berlin. There was not too much time to do sightseeing but at least while doing my Sunday jogging up and down Tiergarten (there where it says LĂĽtzowplace was my hotel…..cool place, I must admit) plus some miles beyond I came accross a few highlights such as Gedächtniskirche (the broken,by WWII bombs, church), Siegessäule (yes, victory column, obviously commemorating another war than WWII) and the Brandenburger Tor where a huge celebration was going on. Celebrating 50 years European Union. Hard to think that the same town was split into two parts by a wall not too long ago. Ridiculous in a sense.
Ironically, I wanted to make a jogging break and get a drink at Brandenburger Tor. The place was so crowded that I ended up in Burgerking nearby, getting my yummie coke. Maybe we Europeans (except for Switzerland of course, Switzerland is an island within the EU…. Switzerland is maybe even part of another universe, just pretending to be there among the rest of the world) are good in celebrating, daily if possible, with lots of cigarettes and wine, but the Americans made sure that we can get a coke everywhere on planet earth.
While jogging there, I remembered pictures of Tiergarten after the war and wondered how fast man seems to rebuild things. I think we rebuild our houses faster than our hearts.
Talking hearts: When going to bed yesterday I was smiling like a two-year old in anticipation of his birthday. Waiting until 12 pm something, counting slowly to 100, I imagined scented envelopes flying to Russia, Slovakia, Cech Republic, Germany, France, Greece, Switzerland, the US, Japan and other places. Scented envelopes sent from a free country, somewhere in a parallel universe.
Coming back from Berlin, after two days talking about security at an European Security conference, I feel we all should from time to time say our little prayer or thanks to a generation before us, thanking for our living in liberty, without walls, and with coke around the corner.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Is the coke you get in Europe made with sugar or corn syrup? Here in the US, Coke is now made with the latter and not nearly as yummy. Oddly, in Los Angeles you can sometimes score a bottle that was made in/ meant for the Mexican market, which is made with sugar (which is more expensive). Those are the really yummy ones. They are actually less sweet than the corn syrup ones we get, almost closer to that Diet Coke bite.
Yes, we are doing our part to make sure that cavities are a universal experience. :-)
March 28th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Well, I have to admit: I never checked what the sweet stuff in Coke is coming from… hmmm. I guess it is … honestly: I have no clue. Frightening! -> I will check the next time I get a Coke. Greetings from a Coke ignorant
March 28th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Aeh…sorry. I still had the test account activated from my form testing ;-)
the last comment was from me
March 29th, 2007 at 6:51 am
Rebuilding hearts takes much longer and is much harder work than rebuilding houses. You were at a security conference? You are a man of many talents. I’ll say my little prayer of thanks.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Well, thank you, although I am not so sure about my security talents ;-)
Security, by the way, in the context of homeland security: http://www.src07.de