the chinese house at sanssouci park. what i was most interested in when we decided to spend a week in potsdam was sanssouci palace & and its park. my mother had told me how had she roamed the extensive grounds of the park back in her youth and there were photos proving that. these two things made me want to visit so badly, i don't even really know why. maybe i kind of wanted to feel something of the past, something that my mother had seen prior and maybe formed her to the woman she later became. okay, granted, she was a teen back then, and teens probably don't have that much interest into cultural things. but even though my mother was so young, she still acknowledged the beauty of it, even in her retellings. she said that even back then the park and its many buildings, sanssouci palace and the new palace, they were all kept in good shape. which is actually quite remarkable as the GDR government didn't really like the old 'imperialistic' remnants of the pa...
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