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Another week in Berlin come and gone

The colorfully painted exterior of the Genezarethkirche in the middle of Schillerkiez in Neukölln, noticed while shopping at the Wochenmarkt on Herrfurthplatz last week.

My son goes back to school a week from Monday and I am not ready for the summer to be over. (Mostly because it feels like it never really got started!)

I know that schools starting on Sept. 8 is rather late for most of you. And many other German states, including Brandenburg, have already started.

But Berlin state schools didn’t break for summer until July 24th. Not sure why it was so late this year. They usually go into July, just not this late, and this next school year ends on July 9. (But then they start back again on August 22.)

Not that he was missing much sitting in the classroom. This summer’s weather has been unseasonably cool and wet—with temps throughout July and early August hovering in the low-to-mid teens Celsius (that’s low to mid 60s Fahrenheit).

I can count on one hand the number of days it was warm (and…