Admittedly, my knowledge about football doesn’t go much further than knowing it includes two teams of … 15? So why do I find myself fascinated by this year’s World Cup, and even writing a second post about it? Hmmm, it might have something to do with the fact that for the first time in my [...]
It’s confession time. I was blissfully unaware of this term until I entered the Berlin sphere. But now I know. Gentrification (in short: the up-grading of inner-city areas with redone buildings, restaurants, bars) is bad. Baaaad. It is so evil that everybody I hear talking about it has a thoughtfully furrowed eyebrow, and this concern [...]
Supposedly, I am quite good with words. In the gloriously illuminated state between the first and the second glass of wine, I can easily talk your head off. I write pages and pages in both my native and chosen favourite language. Hell, I even get paid by my clients (thank you!) for expressing complicated things [...]
Yesterday evening, Germany won the Football World Cup 2010. Or so you would think, because within seconds after the final whistle in Durban, SA, all hell broke loose on Ku’damm, Berlin. Until the small hours, it was a pandemonium of cars, flags, horns, and burn-outs of whatever had wheels on them, celebrating a towering 4-0 victory [...]
Summer has arrived in Berlin, fully fitted with lobster-faced tourists and a cosy blanket of warmth in the streets that doesn’t even lift at night. Even many inner-city boulevards were deserted as the grilling meat shelf of our local supermarket on this Sunday morning. Only one place seemed to buzz with activity and produced long [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010