Big Frank at the Wall

Check point Charlie (resconstructed). The soldiers are student actors who charge money to have their pictures taken!

Big Frank is in Berlin. First day of the Fulbright seminar was mostly meet and greet, and then when all got on a bus and got the quick two-hour tour of the biggest tourist attractions: the wall, check-point Charlie, Alexander Platz, Potsdammer Platz, the Jewish Hollocast Memorial, and various museums, churches and neighborhoods. The pictures that Big Frank took above are of the largest remaining section of the wall, where the eastern side has been turned into an art gallery where arts from around the world were invited to come and paint on the wall. This was done twenty years ago, and now once again to honor the 20th anniversary of its coming down. Then in the evening a great dinner on a top floor of the hotel when all of us got a chance to get to know each other better. The seminar begins in earnest today!