Get your hoes out, or just visit the Prinzessinnengarten in Kreuzberg. PLUS, in what probably should be a separate post, the Chapel of Reconciliation by Peter Sassenroth.
Read MoreFrom the mitte to the Berlin Wall Memorial along Bernauer Strasse.
Read MoreNobody rains out my staycation. Unless it is the sky.
Read MoreWandering the gardens and palaces of the German Royalty.
Read MoreHistoric reconstruction (i.e., the German propensity to complain about anything remotely interesting in architecture), coffee in too-cool Weserstrasse, and second-hand English books in Berlin.
Read MoreThe topography of terror is apparently very, very flat and stony. Also, holidays are successfully making me not want to return to work.
Read MoreNo word of a lie. I was at Real yesterday morning to get some breakfast stuff (Real is a grocery store) and the 80 year old man in front of me at the cash out had 6 giant bags of gummi bears and a playboy magazine.
Read MoreAfter working a proverbial buttload of overtime I plan the best stay-cation ever, starting with a strong base of bulk candy from Herr Nilsson.
Read MoreI was biking home from work and the light was so nice, I decided to stop and take some pics. I bike past the Monument to blah blah blah (shorten the name already... seriously...) every day but never stop.
... good story bro.
Read MoreIn spite of the fact that I was working like crazy, my time management skills came in quite handy. I stayed a bit later on Tues/Wed so that I could take Thursday and Friday evening off. The weekend was filled with such delights as cake from Koriat, pistacio filled mini-magnums, tickets to see Laura Marling (which was awesome), and a sunny brunch at Restaurantschiffe Van Loon. I still managed to finish the perspectives with time to spare, which obviously just meant that people could nitpick about stupid things like what color the benches in the far off distance are.
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