It is a chilly -5 degrees as I'm writing this and everything outside my window is covered in a thick blanket of snow, so looking at pictures from last summer is keeping my frozen soul alive.

Berlin is an interesting city. On one hand you have an ultra-modern city with glass-covered buildings being built, and on the other hand you have buildings that have been around for over a hundred years with bullet holes as evidence of the history of the city. It is cheap, it is young and although people were always heading somewhere they didn't seem to have that lazer sharp focus in their eyes. It rubbed off on us so we spent every day in the giant Tiergarten between the touristy things on our agends.