{"id":4290,"date":"2025-08-26T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:51:18","slug":"nina-and-crosby-take-on-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2025\/08\/26\/nina-and-crosby-take-on-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nina and Crosby Take on Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Nina Grafton &#8217;26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to a generous donation to our program, Crosby and I had the opportunity to travel to Berlin for a long weekend. Despite the very hot weather, we were able to see many of Berlin\u2019s important buildings and museums. We did many of the \u201ctraditional\u201d things to do when in Berlin, like visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin.de\/en\/attractions-and-sights\/3559756-3104052-east-side-gallery.en.html\">East Side Gallery<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandenburg_Gate\">Brandenburger Tor<\/a>. But we also visited places like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwulesmuseum.de\/ueber-uns\/?lang=en\">Schwules Museum <\/a>and even climbed to the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlinerdom.de\/en\/\">Berliner Dom<\/a>! Our trip was rich in history and culture, and we hope we can go back to explore Berlin again sometime in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandenburg_Gate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin1.jpg 608w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crosby and I at the Brandenburger Tor, the first monument we visited. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlin.de\/en\/attractions-and-sights\/3559756-3104052-east-side-gallery.en.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4292\" style=\"width:614px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin2.jpg 498w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin2-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin2-341x300.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">East Side Gallery: It was moving to think about the East Germans who were shot at that Wall when they tried to overcome it to flee to the West.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlinerdom.de\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin3.jpg 654w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Berliner Dom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin4.jpg 522w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin4-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crosby at the top of the Berliner Dom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ddr-museum.de\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"430\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin5.jpg 430w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin5-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crosby \u201cshaking hands\u201d with the SED at the DDR Museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin6.jpg 556w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/files\/2025\/06\/ninacrosbyberlin6-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me in front of the Spree and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smb.museum\/en\/museums-institutions\/alte-nationalgalerie\/home\/\">Alte Nationalgalerie<\/a>!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nina Grafton &#8217;26 Thanks to a generous donation to our program, Crosby and I had the opportunity to travel to Berlin for a long weekend. Despite the very hot weather, we were able to see many of Berlin\u2019s important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/2025\/08\/26\/nina-and-crosby-take-on-berlin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110570,60654,1142],"tags":[226792,226793,226784],"class_list":["post-4290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural","category-excursions","category-fun","tag-berlin","tag-cultural","tag-excursion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bremen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}