Though my travels are months ago,
2013 ends with many memories,
new and old adventures,
old friends,
and new friends
and a great deal of images...

To end the Berlin series,
I thought of the soaring tower of the bombed out but partially restored Neue Synagogue,
still centred in the heart of old Jewish area around Hackescher Markt.

I thought of it partially as a haunted memory of so much tragedy,
but also,
because it is still there,
and still part of Berlin,
as it moves forward...
Like all of us...