SPIN CYCLE: Tom’s eyes are opened during trip to Germany

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tom AllonBrooklyn DailyGrowing up in New York, I had a view of the world similar to the famous old New Yorker cover by Saul Steinberg: after Ninth Avenue came the Hudson, then a brief stretch of America with Japan, China and Russia in the distant horizon.It is easy to be a myopic New Yorker and think that the world revolves around the issues that concern us.So to get far away from the city, as I did last week, is refreshing.Last Thursday I took an overnight