Naturally, I've played tourist in Berlin.........The new Reichstag (with the spiral staicase embedded in the see-through dome) is pretty cool. I've walked to the top. Also, I've been to the top of the East Berlin Radio-Spike-Tower, Brandenburg gate, The Tiergarten, Berlin Zoo, Checkpoint Charlie, Ka-De-Vay and the Kurfurstendamm shopping district, Potsdam and various museums etc., etc., etc.
My 'pleasure' trip to Celle this time was to contact a possible distantly-related relative who I have been in contact with over the internet. We, coincidentally, have both been doing geneologies on ourselves. I took a 'bullet' train from Berlin to Hannover. The town-center of Celle was amazing and a lot of the buildings were built in 16 & 1700's. It reminded me of an old European village out of the middle ages with a castle at one end. Very, very beautiful!!!!!!!
There was a Christmas Festival going on at the time and we walked around 'Old-town Celle' eating and drinking our way through the city center for hours.
As it turns out my host MAY be related to me...........we both trace our father's ancestries back to the same town (Gorlice) in southeastern Poland {This area has changed hands many times and was once part of both Austria and Ukraine}.
Interestingly, both the American Presidents, Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt, trace their ancestries to Celle.
