Berlin 2008

When a German colleague of Vero's decided unexpectedly to have a three-month parenting leave from 1st of January 2008, Vero (quick as ever) realised that *someone* would have to fill that vacancy... and this is how we came to spend the first three months of 2008 in Berlin.

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Introduction

(vero;2008)

We had planned to spend the winter of 2007/2008 in SE Asia with two months in Vietnam (mostly the north) and another two months in Cambodia and Burma.

The famous Brandenburger Tor, scene of many historic events in the life of Berlin But then, a few weeks before we were due to depart, a German colleague of Vero's decided to have a three-month parenting leave from 1st of January 2008.

Vero, quick as ever, realised that *someone* would have to fill that vacancy... long story short: we shortened the trip to six weeks, and moved lock, stock and barrel to Berlin (albeit only for three months) at the end of the year.

We had three very busy months in Berlin.

With Vero working full time, we spent all our free time exploring the city, browsing its museums (free on Thursday nights) and checking the surrounding area, pushing to Leipzig and Dresde on some week-ends.

We brought back some pictures, which we unfortunately have not had time to prepare for our site.

But you can have a look at the emails we sent.