Conversation with a local.Outside the mainline station a pretty teenage punk wearing stripey leggings, all over piercings, speaks to us.
"Heineken sauerkraut lederhosen?" she says.
"Er..." I say, intelligently. "Er... wir sprechen kein Deutsch."
"Ah," she says, and in perfect English for our benefit, "Do you have some money to give me?"
"No!" says Rae. "We're poor - give US some money."
Good to see her education not going to waste though.
Berlin featured incredibly friendly smiley chilled out Berliners, everywhere lots of graphic design and general stylishness, lots of fine (& impressively Soviet style) architecture, fine food, and fine conversation with the charming and gorgeous BiB, who took us to a great bar that I can't remember the name of.
(BiB had also said there was 'lots of totty' in Berlin and he was not wrong. Lots of tall, skinny, good-looking men wearing glasses, we liked it a lot. And unlike Londoners, who are too cool for school, they actually check you out.)
Check it all out on Flickr (which as usual features lots of random photos of graffitti & bits of buildings, making it look like Berlin is completely uninhabited by human beings - in fact this is not very far off from the truth, after London it seemed spookily uninhabited).
Dying to go back and stay for longer. Was even considering the TEFL option but don't know if I could ever bear to go back to teaching phrasal verbs to bored businessmen again, even for the sake of this fabulous city.
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I desperately want to go to Berlin. Not sure about all the tall handsome men though. They might make me feel slightly inadequate.
Did you stay at the Circus? And how was it?
"Heineken sauerkraut lederhosen?"
Sounds more like Dutch to me?
Hi Timbo, can't recommend a visit highly enough... now don't be modest, I'm sure you're gorgeous enough to hold your head up high in Berlin.
Meredith, it was all booked up - we stayed at East Seven instead, it was fantastic, like a proper hotel and in Prinzlauer Berg, a very nice neighbourhood...
Billy, well I never, I always thought Heineken was German - maybe should change it to Jägermeister...
Darling, yes, you went a bit western dialect on us there. The correct version is, in fact, "Jägermeister Sauerkraut Lederhosen." It was, it goes without saying, three times better than sex meeting you. No, four times. Come again and, now that you know I'm not a psycho, stay with us! I'm so glad you liked it here.
Awww! Thank you - I wasn't fishing, honest, but I definitely will.
great pics! i have a good friend in berlin who's always urging me to visit. i think the time has come. (nothing to do with the tall, gorgeous blokes. nothing at all)
Visiting is awfully dangerous, you may end up moving there permanently, like me.
Hello Slaminsky! *waves*
Hi Rivergirlie, thank you! Go! Go! visit your friend, you won't regret it, and will appreciate the eye-candy...
Hello Bowleserised! *waves back* Aha, is that how you found yourself there? BiB was telling me all about you, maybe we'll have a mini blog-meet next visit?
Yes and yes – blogmeets are the way forward!
Berlin only gets dangerously tempting once you see the inside of someone's flat. THEN you make plans to run away from London.
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