I can feel the trip ending and it is sad.
We woke up to heavy rain, but it slowed and was just a mist as we walked to the train station to leave Berlin. The Berlin train station is like a space station, so huge and modern. Our track was near the bottom level, and four levels above us you could see trains coming and going, inside the station; trains running East-West over trains going North-South, levels of trains and shops, all connected by giant escalators.
After we left Berlin we got into increasingly rural areas, farmland (with the occasional wind or solar farm) then deep pine and possibly birch? or larch? forests.
Görlitz is where they filmed the Quinten Tarentino movie "Inglorius Basterds" with Brad Pitt. It was bombed during the war, then became part of Eastern Germany so no real improvements were made for years, no now it still has a lot of the "old feel" to it. When Poland became a country they ran the border right through the middle of town, so you can literally walk from one country into the next. So we did...just right across the bridge into Poland and back.
It rained, then poured, then misted all day here. Hard to believe it is 03 July and it is 50F, we are wearing coats and it is so rainy, when back home it is over 100 and sunny! Quite the "summer trip" so far.
Gail gave up walking with me after a couple hours and went back to the room to try to dry off and warm up, so I kept exploring. I saw the fountains, the Jewish quarter that was destroyed and still is, and chased down all the church steeples and squares.
They were having their SummerFest in one square... it was pretty sad. The buildings are old and some are rebuilt and look great, while others are still kind of gutted shells. We found a nice little cafe to sit and have mushroom soup (Gail) and homemade dumplings in mushroom soup, with good wine.
That evening we just decided to eat dinner at the restaurant here at our guesthouse so we didn 't have to go back out in the rain.