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Christmas Fair - Kurfürstendamm - Gedächtniskirche - Berlin

Es weihnachtet sehr, in euren Geldbeuteln.
Christmas is on it's way into your purses.
And no, I'm not a Grinch. Well, not that much.
It was even my own decision to go there today.
Seriously, I enjoy beautiful christmas fairs a lot but those
capitalist cults which are connected to them make me want to puke
all the candy I ate recently.
"Merry crisis and a happy new fear!"

Beach View - the winter in Berlin

Sometimes you can't draw a distinction between peaceful or depressing.


It's not easy to differentiate. But can Berlin be peaceful?

Transportertour

A friend and I rented a huge van and we transported lots of stuff. Shit needed to be done. And we finished it in about two days. Here are some pictures from close after we've started:

This looks like a place somewhere in Kosovo:

There was the Berlin Wall:

Yes, I edited it a little bit. Fancy, hm? I would like to live in a tower:

The Fernsehturm/ TV Tower. It's one of the landmarks of Berlin. But I bet that you know that if you don't live under a rock or something:

The Fernsehturm strikes again:

Tiergarten

Fooling around at the S-Bahnhof Tiergarten:

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spooky spinning puppet

Oh look, cute toys..

the fire is working

Fireworks under a starlit nightsky....

tasty food and a unicorn sky

Last week I ate glass noodle soup with shrimps, shiitake mushrooms, quail's eggs, vegetables and herbs at the Nikolaiviertel.
I have just been to busy to post it right then and later I almost forgot it.
Where is my mind..?! (:




And there was what I call a "unicorn sky" when the sun went down that evening.

omnomnom weekend

Forget Spongebob, there are rumors in circulation that I might be the best fry cook. You doubt that Mr. Squarepants? Well, the challange is accepted.
I made some burger last weekend to hone my skills.
And they turned out really well, I just have to find a better sauce.

And I ate some baklava:


Meanwhile on CSI Berlin:

bubble tea and dinner

Uh, I had such a hangover yesterday.
And I was close to dehydration and I needed to gain some energy,
so I went out to drink some bubble tea at the Leopoldplatz.
I really craved mango flavored one and I gulped 500 ml down in the blink of an eye.

Hell yeah, that was so good. I felt much better and was in the right mood to have dinner. So I went to the "Just Dim Sum" restaurant in the Ansbacher Str. in Berlin-Schöneberg and had a feast.

April weather

Jeez, the April weather is really weird this year.
There are days where you have changes from rain to sunshine to hail to snow and back to sunshine again. And all this happens in intervals of 15 minutes.
I don't complain about the weather but I have to recognize that it is amply strange. Those photos are from earlier this month:

Botanical Garden in Berlin Dahlem

A spontaneous idea took me the botanical garden in Dahlem.
I went there in mid-March because I wanted to see nice flowers
and to take some photos of them after this long, grey, cold winter season.
Sure, spring wasn't there yet, not in it's real brightness and it was still a bit bleak outside. Accordingly they didn't have much flowers in their outdoor facility when I went there. But I didn't get disappointed, the botanical garden has plenty of indoor areas. You can find numerous flowers there from all around the world. And they kept me entertained for hours,
I took hundreds of photos. Even the outdoor facility was nice.
And I'm sure that it's amazing when all the flowers are back and blooming. That's why I will go there again in a couple of weeks.
I'm sure that I will make more than just one post. This is the first set:

harbinger of spring

Last weekend I collected some ideas for new projects which really interest me.
It will take some time to prepare, to transact and to finish all of them.
But I took some photos on a walk about 1-2 weeks ago.
Spring isn't here yet but you can already see many heralds: