Greyness... concrete closing in... If I don't get out of London soon, my head will fall off. Or something.
Rachael has been tempting me with tales of eccentric clubs and attractive people in Berlin, & seeing as I haven't been for years, and the last time I went, we hitch-hiked there (and ended up being stranded in the dark & having to spend a night in a truck stop disabled toilet on the border of France and Germany - though being a German truck stop toilet it was as clean as, if not cleaner than, a suite at the Ritz) I think around Easter, it's time to go back and do it in style. *
This is all a preamble to tell you that I was doing a little light researching of places to stay - if you know of anywhere, please do feel free to recommend - when I came across Propeller Island City Lodge. Can it be for real? Rooms based on prison cells, complete with toilet in the corner; rooms with cages; rooms with padded green leather walls; or, for the discerning wannabe vampire, rooms with coffins to sleep in. Those crazy Germans. Go check it out, and tell me what you think.
* BiB, if you are reading, and around, I will be demanding to meet you for a drink.
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Darling, more than one drink, I hope! That place-to-stay looks fun, in a way, but it's in the middle of nowhere. Well, not really the middle of nowhere, but in the West, and you won't spend a second in the West unless you do stay there in which case your only seconds in the West will be to get on the U-Bahn to go to the East. So look East. I'll try to think of a good place.
I was vaguely thinking of a London trip around Easter, but I'll bear your dates in mind. Plus, GSE is coming to Berlin in April too - I hope that's not a state secret - so wouldn't it be corking AND topping if we all coincided here? I wonder if this place: http://www.circus-berlin.de/1/homepage.html might float your boat? It's sort of hostelly, so might be full of 17-year-olds, but it's excellently located and might be cheap. Of course I slightly want to open my doors to you, but it might cause a diplomatic incident with the Russian. "You invite unknown blogger? My maazer hezzn't even stayed viz us." Mind you, I could try to stress your Russianness...
Hoorah! Either way, in London or Berlin I should get to see you? (and maybe GSE too.) Ah, aren't you sweet - I wouldn't dream of causing a diplomatic incident with the Russian, or his maazer. Circus Berlin does look fab, and right up my alley, sadly still being able to afford only places frequented by 17 year olds...
Of course I don't get replacement filofax pages until about May - which then largely go ignored, but would be handy now - so can't remember when GSE is coming. I'll get onto her and make sure to be here when you're both here.
That place is fairly new - a few years old, only - so even if it's basic, I'm sure it's fine. (Although I hope you wouldn't have to share a room with English children.) It's vaguely fatal if you speak English in any bar in the environs as you're bound to get approached by one of the aforementioned English children who assumes, naturally, that you must instantly become best friends because of your identical passports. Oj vej!
Will you be coming alone? Who is Rachael? Is she a Berliner? And - most importantly of all - does she blog? I don't really know about clubs here but the city is packed with wall-to-wall totty. Wall-to-flippin'-wall.
I stayed at The Circus in Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse a few years ago and it was great - fantastic location, and quiet at night, and clean. If there's still a tiny cafe a few doors up called The Rose then that's the place to have your breakfast.
BiB, don't change your plans for me my dear, especially as we haven't booked it yet. Rachael is an (English) friend, she visited Berlin recently with a German friend - as yet she does not have a blog but she is a writer, think I've nearly convinced her... Rah, totty!
Meredith, thanks for the tip! Someone who's actually stayed there is the best recommendation... Right, I am off to look for flights this minute.
I've wanted to go to Berlin ever since I saw Cabaret when I was very young.
I don't think it's like that now, but I still want to go.
I looooooove Cabaret. Hoping for some divine decadence (though hopefully no more fascists left singing 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me'.)
Annie, Billy, you're pretty safe from Nazis in Berlin now. The dreary skinhead version does still exist, but they only make an appearance every so often, and are pretty easily avoidable. So come to Berlin. Yes, I can't really claim that the Cabaret-thing is still going strong, but it's still a nice place, and incredibly cheap.
Annie, GSE is here April 24th-25th, but it's worky, and we're going to see each other on the 25th. Otherwise, no concrete plans from me yet. I pop to England - but not London - for the weekend of March 25th, but need to go for a proper London-centred trip soon after that. Let me know if you do plan to be here at Easter. I'll be pretty flexible with dates, actually, being a freelance-translator-loser type. Looking forward to it, in any case. It'll be FUN!
Hooray! Rachael has now gone ominously quiet about the trip, I need to get a definite date from her. Will definitely let you know when it's all booked.
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