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I was running late this morning. Since it's pay day, I decided to be less late by taking a cab. As we turned from 4th Street onto Pennsylvania Avenue, I saw the Newseum's sign for the Berlin Wall VR Experience.
I don't know what to say. The wall itself was just a wall with guards. It cut through the Brandenburg gate, and, if I ever get back to Berlin, I'm going to have the thrill of walking through it.
The idea of walking through "the deserted streets of East Berlin" just doesn't do much. (n.b., the streets were often deserted, it's true. I didn't recognize Alexanderplatz in the Bourne Supremacy because I'd never seen it with people before.) If there was a way to go into the museums, maybe, but unless there's something explaining "Moscow Gingerbread" housing and the Russian insistence on leaving the bullet marks on the buildings, I don't know what the experience can impart to someone too young to remember the Cold War.
I don't know what to say. The wall itself was just a wall with guards. It cut through the Brandenburg gate, and, if I ever get back to Berlin, I'm going to have the thrill of walking through it.
The idea of walking through "the deserted streets of East Berlin" just doesn't do much. (n.b., the streets were often deserted, it's true. I didn't recognize Alexanderplatz in the Bourne Supremacy because I'd never seen it with people before.) If there was a way to go into the museums, maybe, but unless there's something explaining "Moscow Gingerbread" housing and the Russian insistence on leaving the bullet marks on the buildings, I don't know what the experience can impart to someone too young to remember the Cold War.
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I really do need to come down and visit you. Next week I am taking some time off to head down to my parent's for my Dad's 80th birthday, so it might have to wait a bit, but I keep forgetting how easy you would be to reach for a weekend.