Blog 6
Cooper Robards April 2. 2023 Blog 6 This past week my girlfriend Ella came to visit me. The week was without a doubt a highlight in my trip so far, as I was just starting to get homesick. What made her visit even more fun was doing some of the touristy things I had pushed off or simply not gotten around to doing. I felt like I was experiencing parts of Berlin for the first time with her. Until her being here, I had not yet gone on top of the tv tower. Not only did we go up but we had dinner- which was amazing. It was interesting to see the city from above. Although I had seen it through the window of a plane or on top the Berlin Royal Palace, neither compared to the rotating view of the tv tower. Having been here for a while it was cool being able to recognize many areas from above and see how some were much closer than I thought. It also gave me a greater sense of the horizontality of the city. Most buildings have a uniform height of 22 meters, with the occasional high-rise mix