Loyalty, while a seemingly vanishing virtue, has found itself a bastion in Berlin. Erotic toy/fetish store “Erdbeermund” (literally “strawberry mouth”, but I would settle for the more poetic “strawberry lips”) proves that it is able to bind its customers in every sense. On this billboard announcing their re-location to a new [...]
It’s easy to forget some German stereotypes in Berlin. Unless you try obtaining a membership card at the video rental place. The following dialogue is based on actual events but feel free to spot the mild exaggeration.
Me (smiling): “Hello, I would like to become a member.”
Stone-face (typing on his key-board): “Good. I [...]
Still waiting for reactions of a handful of publishers on my submitted first manuscript. The good news – there is a fresh book idea on track. Even more good news – my lovely and hugely supportive agent likes the idea quite a bit. I suspect that me ditching Irish affairs this [...]
My first favourite bar in Berlin. Yes, I admit it’s the cat (because it adds majestic presence to the place, and my god, it’s cuddly). But not only. It’s got this old-school-West Berlin bohemian atmosphere that feels refreshingly outdated next to all that Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg-Prenzlauer Berg hipness. Cold-war-time theatre posters, photographs [...]
But seriously … how could a New Year/Decade start better than with a blanket of snow? Wandered around Berlin this morning with hubby (in a cast by courtesy of Salzburgian slopes L) and man, doesn’t the city look like the perfect story of a New Year’s Day? Still a bit tousled [...]
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