(Needless to say, we're a little behind here with the posting...New Year's resolution to recommit to the blog:)
As my job wrapped up and most of our friends headed home to
visit family, Kyle and I settled in for a peaceful Christmas weekend. On
Friday, we searched Berlin high and low for bagels for our favorite Christmas
breakfast of bagels and lox. We finally got lucky at Barcomi’s, a bakery and
deli opened by an American woman in the 90s. Next we headed to Kochhaus, a brilliant store that provides you with interesting recipes and
sells you the exact amount of high quality ingredients you need to make them.
We opted for some Guinea hens in a Madeira sauce for our Christmas Eve dinner.
On Christmas Eve we trekked through the rain to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church to hear a concert of Bach freshly arranged by a very
energetic organist. The excellent acoustics in the 1960s addition to the church
made for a dramatic experience.
Few people were out and about as we traveled through the
city on Christmas weekend and Berlin was uncharacteristically quiet. Speaking
with our German friends, we learned that Christmas Eve and the two days
following are usually spent with family and center around meals together (hey,
that sounds familiar!). Kyle and I were both missing family that weekend, but lucked out to
have a very nice Christmas dinner with some American friends in Berlin.
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| The alter in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on Christmas Eve |
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