Gedachtnis Kirche

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.

Adventure 1 of the day:
After settling in, Peter and I wandered out around 11 AM (4AM your time) feeling pretty perky, but as you will see, we obviously were not. We went in search of a bank and walked some before we felt we could find one that would take Peter's card. (He currently has an account in Hamburg, his home town.) We read the directions and then bravely inserted the card. The machine seemed to receive it and then a second later it was DEVOURED!
We ended up spending nearly an hour trying to convince the lady that we were legitimate. We settled for coming back on Friday for the card and the money.

Adventure 2:
P and I had decided that this time we would use our phone. We made all our preparations with T-Mobile...get this: you put in a non T-Mobile card to program the phone. But...again we failed. The phone read: UNSUCCESSFUL.

We gave up and decided to go visit the GedachtnisKirche, which is just down the street from us.

The Gedächtniskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the symbolic centre of West Berlin, an
anti- war memorial to peace and reconciliation. Following allied bombing during WWII, the original,
west Tower has remained standing as a ruin and is hauntingly named the “hollow tooth” as it is
literally an empty husk. Immediately recognizable and located on the Breitscheidplatz at the start of
the busy shopping district which includes the Tauentzienstrasse and Ku’damm, this is the only
building on the square which was spared by the bombing and deliberately preserved as a part ruin.