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August 22: NYC. Our sight-seeing guide played the harmonica a-top a double-decker bus all morning. Later
"Spring Awakening" a tale of youthful energy plus sexual repression, filled our eyes and ears.

August 23: Arrival in Berlin: the Tiergarten, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoin Charlie, the River Spree, Glanslichter Revue -- all a page from East Berlin's yesterday. East Germany is a visual story of a country asleep for 20 years and suddenly coming into the 21st Century. Old and new, side by side.

August 23 to September 4: Gliding up the Elbe through the green countryside of East Germany, Bohemia, and Czech Republic -- Potsdam, Wittinberg, Dresden, to Decin where we ground to a halt as we ran out of river. But the gods of the river let more water out of the dam and we proceeded to our disembarkation point.

Septermber 5: Prague - St Vitus Cathedral, Old Town, Concerts in Prague Castle and Municipal House, a wild folkloric dinner near the Moldau with six crazy Irish ladies, lots of singing, dancing, and Slavic instruments. Time to say goodbye to many wonderful new friends.

September 6: Sybil left for CA today. On to Poland!