BERLIN - BURSTING WITH ENERGY AND ELEGANCE
There have been many business trips to Berlin but none I remember when I actually walked around the city. This was to be different. I was meeting up with perhaps my oldest friend who was there from Australia. A Berliner. What I do remember are the university lectures I gave for years on «International Distribution of Cosmetics». Berlin I knew for its major shopping centres and that since the war it was a city under construction. It still is. Perhaps not as I remember it but now that the east and west have joined the number of buildings being put up or pulled down is still awesome. A New ministry All over the place Over to the Parliment How do I get to the other side? And more construction Inside G.L. KaDeWe - the largest department store was still as chic as ever. Now there was a Galeries Lafayette and inside it is unmistakable. I had chosen a hotel in the Eastern part, a few minutes walk from Checkpoint Charlie. There is this extraordinary curiosity