Cool Cars at Katie’s

Waking up early Saturday morning and in the mood for a drive and cool cars? Here is the place to go: Katie’s Coffee House. On Saturday mornings, car lovers from all over the region park their precious vehicles on the parking lot in Great Falls, Virginia, grab a coffee and stand in awe over old and new cars. The Washington Post had an article this week about Katie’s, I’ve been there two years ago, and it’s really worth getting up at the crack of dawn. Otherwise, you won’t get a parking spot, because the show is pretty much over at 9 am.

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October 5, 2014

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German American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC, Foto: Christina Bergmann

Have you ever been to the German American Heritage Museum (GAHM) in downtown DC, close to Chinatown? It’s worth a visit, and it’s free. These days, the museum is hosting an exhibition about “idealistic 19th-century immigrants who wanted to create the 25th U.S. state” – German immigrants, that is. They came from Giessen, close to Frankfurt, to Missouri. Here is the Washington Post story about the GAHM exhibit with the name “Utopia: Revisiting a German State in America“.

And while you’re at it, check out this WP article about “How to view art” by Philip Kennicott. Worth reading – and doing.

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Happy Birthday, Germany

Who would have thought 25 years ago, that in 2014, Germany would celebrate it’s first quarter century as a united nation (although we still have to wait another year for the “official” 25th anniversay). On Oct 3rd, 1989, a peaceful German unification seemed like a dream that would never come true.

So let’s celebrate like on Wednesday at the German Embassy in DC,by remembering what happened 25 years ago, like in this DW report, and with pictures from my now united hometown: Berlin.