Shir, if you enter "German Unification Brandenburg Gate" in Google Images you get a lot of the pictures which spring to mind instantly for me. There are the shots of fireworks behind the gate or the wall coming down with East German soldiers standing behind it.
Gosh, twenty years....
Oh, back to civilization and the world that sometimes-when-there-are-no-malfunctions has internet-connection and can-communicate-with-the-actual-world!
And just in time, board-time (though not her time, sadly) to slide through and wish Fiona a happy birthday (or, her time, second-day-of-her-new-age), and a wonderful year!
Best of birthdays, Fiona!