petersberg

guess we're a bit behind on blogging from the past week, but one of our recent highlights was a little afternoon trip last sunday with our pal corinna up to the hotel petersberg, perched atop one of the many prominent hills near bonn. the picture doesn't really do it justice, but hopefully you get a bit of the idea.

here's a view of the rhine from the top.

the hotel was built over a hundred years ago and has an incredible history: most notably (in my opinion), after wwii it became the seat of the allied high commission, which ruled over west germany until 1955.

only slightly less notably: corinna tells us that mikhail gorbachev once stayed here as an official guest of the german federal government. to honor his visit, the government presented him with a shiny new mercedes... which he promptly totaled on the way down the hill! just imagine what yeltsin would have done.