Fighting over dead people
Posted: November 30, 2010 Filed under: Eggs | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, travel writing Leave a comment »Tried to take a leisurely stroll today around the St. Georgen and St. Petri cemeteries a few blocks away from our apartment.
The stroll became a brisk walk with lots of rubbing and blowing of hands and stomping of feet.
It’s savagely, painfully cold in Berlin today (zero Fahrenheit, a light wind and a humidity that slaps and scratches at any exposed skin.)
The dirt crunched beneath my shoes as I walked off the noisy street and through the gate into the quiet cemetery. A trace of two-day-old snow hid about in the leftover leaves of autumn lining the path, outlining the green vines and the bushes seperating plots. The cold had frozen solid the cement troughs for catching water from the grave-flower-watering faucets. Read the rest of this entry »
Public art, an indoor flea market and bird judo
Posted: November 28, 2010 Filed under: Lost in Berlin, Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure | Tags: Berlin, flea markets, Graffiti, Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure 2 Comments »Nadja and I got up today and, finding the sun ashining, decided to make hay. Off to the flea market we went. The indoor flea market that is.
Along the way there and back, as always in Berlin, we found a few interesting pieces of public art. On the way home at sunset we came across a bunch of crows having a sort of Fight Club in a parking garage. Below is a slide show of the way there and back. Read the rest of this entry »
Another Great Adventure: Back from my T-Forced Internet Holiday.
Posted: November 25, 2010 Filed under: Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure | Tags: culture shock, moving abroad, Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure, travel writing 2 Comments »It was our last step in moving in…
In this day and age, one isn’t set up in a new apartment until one has internet access. Usually a simple process. Germany is a developed country. A first world country. An industrialised nation.
We simply wanted internet. We have cell-phones. We can call or click, give ‘em our credit card number…the box comes a few days later in the mail , right?
Yes…well, yes and no. Here’s the story of our T-adventure and a slide show of what we did in the last six weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Berlin autumn and apartment pictures
Posted: November 24, 2010 Filed under: Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure | Tags: Berlin, culture shock, moving abroad, Nadja and Andrew's Great Adventure, travel writing Leave a comment »It was a beautiful fall in Berlin.
Being Germany, rain, it did…but there were several spells of sunny autumn days, and the leaves of the many trees in Berlin’s parks and along its many boulavards and canals and the River Spree reacted accordingly.
So far as the casa goes, a bed frame, Clothes cabinets, book shelves, etc. are the next step, as soon as we win the lotto. Not bad for just arrived with nearly nada.
Here’s a few pictures from Treptower Park and our apartment.
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