Nochmal ein kleiner Nachtrag zum Berlin Wochenende:

It was a cloudy day in a strange colourful city. The first step was the welcome-money from a bank in the western part. Long lines of 'Ossis' in front of the 'Commerzbank'. People with imitation leather jackets and the wish to buy things which smell like WEST. I ate my first banana and kiwi in a new world. West-Berlin, the part of the free world with the white and high-rise buildings, new video cassette recorders and turkish people. On this day I was the first and last time in a German mosque, but this is an other story...
The nightly way back to thuringia was much longer and my head was full of impressions from the 'brave new world'.

1990-10-03 Day of the German Reunification

I was on the way to WEST-Berlin, in a crowded train full of 'Ossis'. My first real contact with the capitalism came closer by every station - the wall was open since 2 days. More about WEST-Berlin tomorrow... we arrived in the morning [1989-11-12].

YOU ARE ENTERING THE AMERICAN SECTOR
CARRYING WEAPONS OFF DUTY FORBIDDEN
OBEY TRAFFIC RULES