Huzzah! It was a great trip–I got plenty of inspiration for the book, and Kelly and I had a lot of fun. Seanan said he felt like he’d been looking at ‘Present at a Hanging’ since December, so I think I will treat him (and you) to a blog post full o’ pics every day for…well, for awhile. I took hundreds, you know.

But for now, here’s a random assortment. (I seem to have misplaced my laptop adapter and the battery’s running low…)

The 13th-century Marienkirche against the GDR-era TV Tower.

Durty graffiti at the East Side Gallery (a 1.3km stretch of the Berlin Wall painted by an international group of artists in 1989-1990).

(Found on a bridge inside the Tiergarten.)

A view from inside the Schloss Wernigerode, in the Harz mountains.