Spandau hotel<\/a> is not far from where the Berlin wall used to be, so I just jogged down to "Heer" street and took off in a westerly direction. Sure enough, after several hundred meters I was near the old border. At one point there was a path called the "Grenzweg" leading off into the woods. It still is somewhat of an unusual feeling to walk (or jog) in a location where the dividing line ran between the two main power blocks during the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning I did something that I would have been arrested for if I had done it 20 years ago: I jogged into "East Germany".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bible study with our small group in Berlin. A couple of our regulars were missing because of holiday travel over the long weekend (Friday and Monday are holidays here). I forgot my half-price "Bahncard" for the trip, which meant that I should have had to pay the extra 50 percent for my ticket. But the conductor was nice about it – even though it was against the rules! – and didn’t ask me to pay the extra fare. In exchange I gave him a quick English lesson before I got off the train in Berlin. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n