"Follow me,"said the masked cloaked mysterious hadsome stranger, in a husky, velvety voice.

"Those cardboard people represent the old Berlin where people stood around all day, suffering, fed up, waiting on trains that were never on time. Those days are over now. We Berliners only wait two minutes at most for the Metro now, [I bet, I thought]I will show you your Berlin residence but come quickly please....and no photos please....."