Swiming in money?
I never thought I would get there ... but at the Hotel de Rome in Berlin I went for a swim in the underground vault of the former central bank of the old East Berlin. Twice. That gold-flecked, underground swimming pool is simply stunning ... and to think of what it used to contain ...I was there with a good friend who works for a very large book store - and little did we know that right there on the square, Bebelplatz, young Nazis burned some 20,000 books in 1933. Nasty.
