Travel, TV, Templehof
It is two weeks now since I updated the blog. In that time I went to a conference on digital archiving in Frankfurt (on a train that left at 4:35 am!), taught something like 28 hours of classes (including 8 in our distance education program, which meets in Berlin about once a month for intense sessions), met with 4 university committees about curriculum and staffing for the distance education program, and was interviewed by a TV crew from Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg about why we chose to live in the Hansa Viertel.
The interview took place on the same morning as some of our new furniture arrived. This disconcerted the delivery men, who immediately called their company, which called the TV station to get reassurance that this was not an exposé about furniture delivery problems. It was not. The TV crew was just happy for a bit of an action sequence to enliven a talking-head interview. The show is supposed to air on 31 May at 8:15 pm.
During these two weeks Joan also arrived in Berlin in time to take part in the interview, and then left for a European accounting conference in Lisbon, Portugal. She was especially interested to see Lisbon, since my father lived there some while after leaving Germany. She liked it well enough, especially the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Transit was a bit of a problem, though: highly overcrowded and without any metro connection near the convention center.
She flew to Portugal from Berlin's Schönefeld airport in the east and returned to Templehof in the city center. Since she had arrived on the Sunday before at Tegel, she used all three of Berlin's airports in one week, a record I doubt I will ever match, especially since Templehof is scheduled to close once the expansion to Schönefeld is complete in a mere 5 or six years. Temlehof is famous for its role in the Berlin Airlift. The airport is handsome in a 1950s style reminiscent of Washington National airport. (See photos at the right.)
The interview took place on the same morning as some of our new furniture arrived. This disconcerted the delivery men, who immediately called their company, which called the TV station to get reassurance that this was not an exposé about furniture delivery problems. It was not. The TV crew was just happy for a bit of an action sequence to enliven a talking-head interview. The show is supposed to air on 31 May at 8:15 pm.
During these two weeks Joan also arrived in Berlin in time to take part in the interview, and then left for a European accounting conference in Lisbon, Portugal. She was especially interested to see Lisbon, since my father lived there some while after leaving Germany. She liked it well enough, especially the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Transit was a bit of a problem, though: highly overcrowded and without any metro connection near the convention center.
She flew to Portugal from Berlin's Schönefeld airport in the east and returned to Templehof in the city center. Since she had arrived on the Sunday before at Tegel, she used all three of Berlin's airports in one week, a record I doubt I will ever match, especially since Templehof is scheduled to close once the expansion to Schönefeld is complete in a mere 5 or six years. Temlehof is famous for its role in the Berlin Airlift. The airport is handsome in a 1950s style reminiscent of Washington National airport. (See photos at the right.)
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