Sue and I visited Berlin in May for her Birthday - again. Berlin is one of my favorite cities. This time I had one of my longest stays - 10 days which gave me a greater opportunity to explore. Berlin is unique; not least because of its history. It's probably one of the few places in the world where statues and squares are dedicated to those who struggled against the authorities for justice. Cities in other countries all too often often celebrate the victors who often won at the expense of others.
In this gallery I include both conventional images and some I took in museums that catalogue Germany's recent past. Few people outside Germany realize how easily things could have turned out so differently in the 1930s. Anyone who has seen Käthe Kollwitz's work can't fail to miss this - she is my favorite sculptor and no one can capture the distress of the interwar years like her.
For a person living in Middlesbrough in the UK Berlin may be a bit janz weit draußen, but I love it and hope to go back. Oh yes ... and May is the white asparagus season.