Friday night – Off to work

Today was a big day for Gabe .. He went in to work for the first time to talk to his new PI Prof Martin Eigler. It was fun walking him to the bus stop

.. I remember we did that with him on his first day at school in 2000

The rest of the day we did some shopping and repacking in prep for moving to Gabes new apartment tomorrow !

Tonight we decided we’d treat ourselves to the first Doner.. Doner shops are all over Germany.. they specialize in Drehspieß. .. (literally turning food) .. or rotisserie.. it’s very much like Gyros .. They also have falafel and other middleeastern goodies. We found one with good reviews and walked down there

It was vey good.. but we learned there were better ones all over.. I don’t think we’ll ever get tired of Doner

From there we walked to the trainstation because it ws nerby. Gabe showed me the memorial to the holocost victims who were deported from here.. There was this amazing sculpture garden that represented their personal belongs tht they braught to the train station.. but were not allowed to keep before being shipped to the death camps. It was. Very moving

also downtown we came across these two stolpersteinen

it was chilling and moving to see our last name there.. A couple in their 70’s..

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Unbelievable… Having worked in Gernany for many years,.. ive come to feel comfortable there.. one of the things that makes me feel comfortable is the deep commitment to remember the tragedy of the holocaust and speak of it often.. to make sure it never happens again

but that tragedy started very much like to one our country is seeing .. where ‘others’ are demonized and deported..

Haven’t we learned anything ??!?!?

so…. After that we needed some ligthenss.. so We took a long beautiful walk back to the BNB .. we found this very cool 16th century hospital, the Juliusspital  that is still operating in some capacity , though we couldn’t figure out what exactly they did there.. it was this huge 500 year old bulding with very cool history panels about people like Rudolph Virchow .. the father of cellular biology .. he said “(Omnis cellula e cellula)" “all cells come from cells “.. It was amazing to be walking atond this place that is totally ope to the public.. and be there by ourselves

We deeceivde to walk home along the river.. we stopped to take thsis picture in front of the place Gabe said he’d had the worst restaurant dinner of his life… at least it was memorable !

The walk home along the Main river was beutiiful !

Great day..

Nite all. Nite sam
-me