Saturday, 17 November 2007

Berlin

Berlin is fun, in a soggy sort of way. We're staying miles out (in the forest) but the hostel is nice and we have free web access. Yesterday we went exploring and saw lots of lovely brutal GDR housing, as well as Norman Foster's silly Reichstag.Went to a vegan anarchist hangout for lunch. A couple sat down at the table next to us and I heard a familiar voice, and...fuck-me-it's-MIMI-what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-here??

We live in a crazy world. Neither of us knew each other was even in Berlin!

Later, we were trying to get back to our hostel, struggling, and realising that it was miles away -about 3 tube lines and 2 buses...and this guy on the tube was smirking at us, so we got chatting, and ended up getting off the tube with him to meet his brother at this crazy wine bar. It's a mad set up - you pay 1 euro and get a glass, then you just help yourself and give a donation for each glass.

Trashed, we left and went off to a party at Tyler Durden's squat.







Tonight we go dancing. Berlin is good.

1 comment:

stef macbeth said...

I wrote this when I was in Berlin back in June...my first visit. It's an incredible city. exudes energy. The film is of Tacheles - a communal art space. It's funny: on the one hand the whole idealistic alternative lefty liberal art thing makes me want to wretch; on the other hand, it's who I am. I suppose what I like about Berlin is the energy of the place. There's a lot of work going on - and I think that combats much of the smugness that can seap in (see Little Adults).