Last Friday Anya and I ventured out to Potsdam. I think we picked a perfect day for it, because it was very sunny, and not too cold (like today, when it's about 6 degrees and very windy). We did the usual tour through Park Sanssouci, and then had tea, cake and biscuits at the Russian Village of Alexandrovka. Then we went somewhere where I haven't been before - namely to the park Neuer Garten, where Schloss (palace) Cecilienhof is (that's where the Potsdam Conference of 1945 took place with Churchill, Truman and Stalin). The palace is very nice - actually it looks more like a large traditional German residence, than a palace. It had very many different types of chimneys and lots of pretty vines. The whole place (Potsdam that is) looks very pretty now in autumn - with trees being in many different colours, all of the fountains still working, and the whole place having a feel of something continuing and changing at the same time. Following the palace we made our way back to the train station along the nearby lake and then through the town proper. It was definitely a very nice trip - and we were pleasantly tired by the time we got home to a dinner made by Jack.
Some photos are the be seen here.
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