What drove us to stop over in
Berlin was Hildegard
Bekic, architect, one of the seven Bekic children, same
age as Nikolaj, our son: 40 years. We had not seen her for years on
account of her not living in Austria. Now we stayed two nights, saw
her and her beau Sat., dinner at rest. Borchardt, Französische Straße
47, near Gendarmenmarkt, and Sunday morning 10-14 when Hildegard met
us at our hotel with her two wonderful children: Ida and Sol. We
walked to Potsdamer Platz, past Marlene Dietrich Platz, and had lunch
at the Mariott Hotel brasserie. Rudolf Bekic joined us there: he
was en route from Riga to Munich !
Sunday evening we went to Wolfgang
and Soula's apartment (Wolfgang Reisig is professor at Humboldt
Univ.) on Cosima Platz, lovely place, spectacular 5th floor, ``under
the roof'', two level apartment. Had some drinks and went out to
dine. A great evening. And a fitting ``symbol'' of 5 weeks of travel.
Dines Bjorner
2010-12-27
