Friday, November 18, 2016

I remember the Adlon, sort of

    The news of President Obama's meeting and dinner with Chancellor Merkel was in Berlin's fashionable Hotel Aldon. I remember the surroundings as the Akademie der Künste der DDR, where I did research on Heinrich Mann in 1976.

    In 2005 my sergeant and I stopped for a drink at the new Adlon. I had a beer, he didn't.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article159550124/Merkel-zu-Abendessen-mit-Obama-im-Hotel-Adlon.html&prev=search

http://www.lhw.com/hotel/Hotel-Adlon-Kempinski-Berlin-Germany

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Adlon

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