The famous painting “American Gothic” by Grant Wood depicts a grim farmer holding a pitchfork and his daughter standing near their old-fashioned house. I haven’t seen this artwork live but seems I experienced a similar effect recently. On a grey winter day, roughly 30 kilometers from Berlin, I discovered the German Gothic.
© All photos by Slava Shestopalov
It was overcast and chilly (+2°C), but I didn’t want to procrastinate the whole day glued to the phone screen. So, I grabbed my bike and took a train to Strausberg Nord, the line terminus. Although it was the closest station to the “Brandenburg Switzerland” Nature Park, which I initially planned to visit, I still had to ride 13 kilometers to it.