Wednesday 17 September 2008

List 3. Some things I've liked so far about Berlin.

- Riding around on borrowed bikes.
- Coffee at Bonanza, this is the best coffee we’ve found so far in this hemisphere
- Table tennis and beer in just about any park you care to stop in
- The brief week and a half of sun and mild warmth we managed to catch before it turned chilly
- Picnicking in the Grunewald on the last sunny day
- the canals
- The Turkish market by the canal in Kreuzberg
- the bio-wurst from a stand at the Turkish market… I didn’t get what the big deal with wurst was until I ate this
- Ice-cream. Favourite one so far was mango and coconut from a place in Friedrichshain
- Tasty falafels
- The way the streets around here seem so dark and still and mysterious at night but with little lights glimmering here and there off into the distance
- The big comfy apartment we are staying in (but for 11 more days only… I hope we can find somewhere else so nice), these altbaus with central courtyards are lovely
- Eating spätzl with my brother near his place… this is total junkfood, but pleasing.
- the smaller of the two flea markets we’ve been to (see below…)
- big German 'breakfast' last Sunday at 4 in the afternoon... tasty volkenbröt and many types of cheese and ham and fruit and boiled eggs...
- discovering that 'second breakfast' is an actual recognised thing here

2 comments:

dell said...

we felt homesick for berlin when we got back to melbourne, reading this isn't helping...

Minta said...

i copy catting and going to have a second breakfeast...um but maybe we call that lunch?