Lemback Blog

The Potpourri of Ramblings blog of Marlene and Leif Lemback

The Fall Of The Wall

Marlene | November 8, 2009

It will be 20 years tomorrow since the Berlin Wall was torn down amidst the protest of the east side for freedom.  My morning newspaper is making a big deal of the history of the Berlin Wall, with ten pages of stories and illustrations from the day it was built, torn and how significant it [...]

Men In The Tube

Marlene | September 9, 2009

This sight greeted us one early morning in Berlin while we were on the way down through to our breakfast.  It’s not the view we normally get to see when we are riding an elevator, and that day was by chance a view of two men cleaning the Aquadom in Berlin.  While the hotel workers [...]

Gone Too Soon

Marlene | June 26, 2009

Incidentally, Michael Jackson’s Gone Too Soon song can now be dedicated to him. Life’s irony cannot be anticipated and it’s sometimes painful, sorrowful. Michael’s supposed to be concert tour in England in July could have been his revanche for the lost years. The 750,000 tickets were sold in minutes and with this huge crowd, his [...]

Finding Solitude In A Bathroom

Marlene | March 15, 2009

How long can you stay in a bathroom?  I’m ashamed to admit that I’m not a water-saver.  I can spend an hour or so in the shower and I can let the water run till I feel like it’s shouting at me to stop.  But if I have a bathroom like this, I’d be more [...]

Berlin Cathedral

Marlene | July 23, 2008

If you like old architectures you would surely admire the Berlin Cathedral. This huge architecture was built between 1895 and 1905. It had survived the test of time when bombed and damaged during World War ll but later restored. Am totally wordless, can’t find any words to describe more.