Rose, thank you for your comment - how lovely to hear from someone who clearly has many reasons to visit Berlin. Something I wish you wholeheartedly for the year to come:-) Merry Christmas and "Guten Rutsch"!
Thankyou for the grave words from a Szulc (Schultz spelt the Polish way) in Australia. My Mother was German and I had big plans to travel to Berlin this year to take a lock of her hair back to her homeland. Unfortunately a terrible event occurred which put paid to that plan. I might get there eventually, who knows. I spoke German before I spoke English so my sentence construction is still a bit back to front (as if I was writing English in German ha ha) all these many years later. 😳
The language is in my consciousness somewhere but not to hand otherwise. I was going to do a self directed one month language immersion in Germany. That was the plan anyway. My Mother had the most beautiful voice and was herself very beautiful. Dad was a delightful rogue. They should never have had children but then....there wouldn't have been me. Another laugh.
Thanks for the Kissenstein. Just a small note: Leichenstein is rarely said in many parts of Germany. Instead, we usually say Grabstein ("gravestone"). And sometimes Totenstein ("dead stone").
Rose, thank you for your comment - how lovely to hear from someone who clearly has many reasons to visit Berlin. Something I wish you wholeheartedly for the year to come:-) Merry Christmas and "Guten Rutsch"!
Thankyou for the grave words from a Szulc (Schultz spelt the Polish way) in Australia. My Mother was German and I had big plans to travel to Berlin this year to take a lock of her hair back to her homeland. Unfortunately a terrible event occurred which put paid to that plan. I might get there eventually, who knows. I spoke German before I spoke English so my sentence construction is still a bit back to front (as if I was writing English in German ha ha) all these many years later. 😳
The language is in my consciousness somewhere but not to hand otherwise. I was going to do a self directed one month language immersion in Germany. That was the plan anyway. My Mother had the most beautiful voice and was herself very beautiful. Dad was a delightful rogue. They should never have had children but then....there wouldn't have been me. Another laugh.
Thanks for the Kissenstein. Just a small note: Leichenstein is rarely said in many parts of Germany. Instead, we usually say Grabstein ("gravestone"). And sometimes Totenstein ("dead stone").