Day 4: Birthday!
Today we packed up some food and beer and headed to a lake a bit out of town with Kaarin (graduated from Penn Landscape a few years ago and is working in Berlin) and her friend Michel. We took the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn to Bernau and then biked to a nearby lake. Michel told us that this is the lake where all the former GDR bigwigs would vacation. The lake was beautiful, calm and quiet. There is a law in Germany that states no one can build outside city, town or village limits; this protects natural landscape from being developed. Also to note on our trip: Germans love hanging out at the lake with out clothes on. Naked Germans everywhere! Couples and entire families--not just wacky people like the ones who walk around locker rooms nude. I felt like a total prude in my swimsuit...
After swimming and sunbathing we all headed back to the city for very yummy dinner and beers at Dr. Pong, a bar with crazy Soviet-esque group ping pong games. Doug was the only one of us who played, and her ended up winning a round!
A great birthday indeed.
1 comment:
You're no prude. In a world where everyone is nude, being clothed is actually radical.
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