Know the area well, used to be one of my routes for walking the dog. Together, we spent 8 years in Germany, half at Zweibrucken and half in Berlin. I will not say I loved all the time we were there but I can say we enjoyed almost of our time there. But then again, we didn’t have much choice about being there so we might as well enjoy out time. Both our our kids were born in Germany, daughter in Landstuhl and son in Berlin. Still have my wife and kids East Pass.
Understood. At the time, Berlin was my dream station and the fact the Army actually sent me there was surprising :)
I actually was able to take all three modes of transportation into West Berlin: The Duty Train, driving the corridor and flying out on Pan Am. Never felt “trapped” and tried to use our time there to get out and see other places.
The first day we were able to travel outside of Berlin after reunification, I drove my 1985 Ford Tempo to Zossen-Wunsdorf. Just to check out the “sites” :) There was a fairly decent size flea market just outside of the Soviet base there. Parked my car and did some shopping at the flea market. Got back to my car and there was a small crowd of East Germans and a few Soviet soldiers standing around my Tempo, which was parked in a sea of Trabants. I keep telling myself they must have thought it was a sports car :-)