Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Living on Earth is Expensive

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

Living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year.

— Anonymous

Living on Earth is Expensive. www.walled-in-berlin.com

Living on Earth is Expensive. www.walled-in-berlin.com

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on my home page and feel free to follow my blog about anything German: historic or current events, people, places or food.

Walled-In is my story of growing up in Berlin during the Cold War. Juxtaposing the events that engulfed Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall and Kennedy’s Berlin visit with the struggle against my equally insurmountable parental walls, Walled-In is about freedom vs. conformity, conflict vs. harmony, domination vs. submission, loyalty vs. betrayal.

 

Seeing with new eyes

Thursday, January 5th, 2017

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

–Marcel Proost

 

Seeing the World with New Eyes, photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2014, www.walled-in-berlin.com

Seeing the World with New Eyes, photo © J. Elke Ertle, 2014, www.walled-in-berlin.com

 

Making the Most of Life

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

–Anonymous

Sunset over the Pacific, photo Sonja Brzostowicz 2014

Sunset over the Pacific, photo Sonja Brzostowicz 2014

 

For a sneak peek at the first 20+ pages of my memoir, Walled-In: A West Berlin Girl’s Journey to Freedom, click “Download a free excerpt” on the home page of http://www.walled-in-berlin.com