Berlin is 馃敟 and we're overheating. At least we've seen the Official Bird of German Democracy.
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Naturally we also got the Deutscher Bundestag first aid kit!
And all the pens..
And participated in a plenum plenorum (-ish).
Toddlers new friends keep running away..
#Berlin tourism tip: an extended visit to the Bundestag is very much recommended. Massive complex of connected buildings that ooze that democratic wholesomeness of "free stuff!".
We received pens, a first aid kit, air conditioned playgrounds and encountered lots of interesting and friendly people.
There was also the AFD offering free hotdogs, which we denied as a nazi hotdog is as good as no hotdog. The Greens compensated with vegan curry wurst.
CDU offered crayons, which seems on brand.
Oh. If you're wondering, here's the box of CDU crayons. The marks are toddler for some reason putting their teeth in it as we received them.
The CDU lady (actual member of the Bundestag!) who went out of her way to chat with us, was half-amused / half-annoyed / half-bemused (hence the three halves) at my lame comment about toddler clearly already being a typical CDU voter.
Her very conservatively dressed assistant actually said: more like our neighbours (AfD). Which, honestly, made me LOL.
Full disclosure: we didn't just freeload inside the parliament buildings. We also freeloaded inside the big city park.
I collected some sequoia seeds for our tree nursery. This was the first time I remember picking up cones and the seeds falling out in abundance just from the movement of lifting them. I can only guess the combination of drought and them being in the direct sun / heath triggered this.
Anyway. #berlin is too hot.
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116511248026058649
If @europeanspodcast were to organise city trips for parents & kids this would basically be it:
-take a brand new international rail connection (which then craps out and you get to complain about European train infrastructure),
-to a capital so hot you don't know how to be outside,
-but luckily you can spend half of your entire one-day in the city inside the national parliament,
-where you receive crayons from a Christian conservative member of parliament,
-which your kid uses in the park.
