Sorgers in Berlin: A Midlife Adventure

Photos from our first days in Kleinmachnow…

Our way home from the train station (the paved part, which precedes the bumpy tree roots in dirt part, followed by the quicksand part, and lastly, the blissed out woodsy paradise part).

This is a monument to the Soviet tanks that were stationed here in April 1945 along the border between East and West Germany.
The cute pink tank-like sculpture is far more whimsical than the O.G.
This is the edge of Kleinmachnow, over a canal with several cute biergartens, an Indian restaurant and a Greek restaurant.
This is the Kleinmachnow Lock (built in 1906) on the nearby Tetlow Canal (about a 10-minute bike ride from our house) which overcomes the height difference between the Rivers Spree and Havel. Why there is a nearly 3 meter gap between the rivers remains a mystery. We watched a canoe lower down in the lock with a Rico Suave 20-something guy and his date. It was trés cool.
I spy Julian biking through the woods– he has mastered the way home through the woods after our mishaps on Day 2.
Classic teenage facial expression as we await the local bus to the Mexikoplatz train which is one of two S-Bahn train stations closest to our house. Since the bus is a tad unreliable, we have more often been biking to the station at the end of the line in Wannsee.
A little geography reality here…

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