Schröderstrasse 11

Some shots of the new livingroom. We keep the curtains closed most of the day, since there's often work going on out on the scaffolds outside.

Same view, different exposure. This is more like what the colors really look like.

The kitchen's sort of the one place where there are some colors. It's a nice space, looking out over the hof, the courtyard space behind the house. There's a tiny office off the kitchen, too, like a little closet with a desk and window in it.

The bathroom is really small. Maybe it's because there's a giant bathtub in it. We had to buy that shower curtain; why do many Germans prefer to mop up the bathroom rather than get a shower curtain? Who knows.

The bedroom is pretty good sized, also with a window that faces out on scaffolds for the moment. There's also a loft bed that we don't use above where this picture's taken from.

The space behind the house is pretty much a construction site. There are only three currently occupied apartments out of six or eight in the building. This hof is really two buildings, and you can see where the wall sort of is. The building on the left is an old, unrenovated, East Berlin house, and is what the whole area used to look like.

...and on the right, our building, with new balconies.

These two shots really show the old and new buildings together. This strict line between them is something you see all over the city. Brand new expensive places attatched to old and crumbling ones.

We went to the Deutsches Technikmuseum, the big science museum in Berlin. There's all kinds of hands-on experiments to do. Here, Heather watches a ball suspended in an air collumn.

There's a plane hanging over the entrance to the Technikmuseum.

We went up on the roof of the museum and got some good shots at dusk (which was about 4:00).