Park stress in Farranfore for a break in magical Berlin

I went to Berlin last week, a city I’ve never before been to. I’d intended to visit the zoo, although I disapprove of zoos but it’s the biggest zoo in Europe and has a giant aquarium. I’d look at exhibits of creatures that didn’t mind confinement, because they never go anywhere anyway, tarantulas and things that live under stones.

In the event, I never got there. But I learned a bizarre fact. The only casualty of the first Allied bombing raid on Berlin in World War II was the zoo’s only elephant. What tragic serendipity!