Walpurgisnacht

Walpurgisnacht is the traditional gathering of Witches etc... to have one last celebration before Spring defeats Winter - and as a timely token of the visit the Witchy one was in Berlin over the May Day long weekend.

We experienced a bit of Russian/German culture (some of which Polina has already described) here we see the fragile creature perched delicately on a weapon of war:














I mean the cute little bird on the end of the turret of course ;-p


And yet another Russian war memorial - the place seems full of them can't imagine why... This one was acutally very nice and peaceful. The lack of military paraphenailia certainly helps to set a more somber refelctive mood.

So that we didn't get completely depressed and misserable we also wandered down to Potsdam (another town that is kind of just out of Berlin, the local Gelong if you will).

The train was pretty empty on the way there.

And ended up in a little Russian Villiage which was built by King Fredrich Wilhelm III in 1826 as a memorial to "his mate" the Russian Zar Alexander I.

















Then it was off to Sans Souci Palace and the New Palace (yeah I know real imaginative naming) and a stroll through the gigantic gardens - "Oh luv, the lawns are getting a bit long can you mown them" "Sure luv, see ya next week".
















And which trip is complete without some molestation of the local statues and monuments?












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