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| Uh-oh. A landmark? A swirly fake handwritten
font? This can only mean one thing… we’re in for a travel log! |
I briefly went to
Berlin to kick off the summer of seventeen
properly and I hauled along my dad’s old film camera (a Canon that went out of production in the late 70’s: truly
a remarkable fossil) with me. Don't worry - I'll spare you the barrage of photos. A lot of them turned out to be a little too grainy for my taste anyway.
MITTE
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| View from my hotel room or old DDR postcard
nostalgia complete with fernsehturm... you decide |
MUSEUM INSEL
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| Get a load of this nerd right here |
Pictured above: my
friend, Alicia, on the stairs under the cupola in the Bode museum. Thnx
Ali for putting up with my nonsensical posing directions right before taking
this shot… I owe you one.
This museum is halls
and alleyways filled with displays of coins and sculptures and coins and bowls
and more coins… I found this one to be a rather confusing mix of historic collections and I had a hard time making sense of the display of all
the artefacts. Byzantine art and Chinese pottery were displayed next to each
other in the same room with no clear relation.
Now, truth to be told, we did spent
the majority of our time talking about our favourite podcasts instead of reading the information leaflets we were handed at the entrance. Eh, how millenial of us, right?
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| I can assure you that this was a deliberate
artistic choice and very definitely not the result of my own incompetence when
it comes to shooting on film. |
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| Toto, I don't think we're in Germany anymore!? |
The Pergamonmuseum
houses three very impressive reconstructions of monumental buildings from
Ancient times. The one pictured above is the market gate of Miletus which was
(very likely) built under Hadrian’s reign. The museum’s most famous
reconstruction is the Pergamon altar, which I didn’t get to see because it’s
closed (boooooo!) until 2019. The third one, and my favourite of ‘em all, is the
Ishtar Gate of Babylon. A spectacle so grand and colourful my film camera had a
hard time taking it all in and decided to produce some truly atrocious photos instead. Alas,
they can’t all be winners.
HOLOCAUST-MAHNMAL
KINO GEHEN
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| I got so lost on my way to see The Beguiled that I stumbled into a screening of Miss Sloane (or, if you're German, Die Erfindung der Wahrheit) instead |
SCHMECKEN
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| I bet there isn't a single empty space in the inner city left that hasn't been repackaged as a cool concept
store/ urban food place |
- Monsieur Vuong (Alte Schönhauser Str. 46) – A
ten minute walk from my hotel and the coolest place on the block. Also the
busiest. Best to arrive here at 6, just before peak times.
- Keyser Soze (Tucholskystraße 33) – The original draft for this post included a K**** Sp*c*y pun right here, which I've decided to leave out now.
- Mogg (Auguststraße 11-13) – The café pictured
above. A travel blog sold this place to me when he described it as reminiscent
of a Tom Ford film. Uh, an A Single Man rewatch might be in order, cause I
clearly didn’t pay enough attention to the interiors to recognize this as
similar.
- Parker Bowles (Prinzenstraße 85d) – Baked feta
with honey so good I had to order it twice.
- Hummus & Friends (Oranienburger Straße 27) –
Vegan and kosher, if that means anything to you.
Also – interestingly
enough, supermarket meal salads are bizarrely cheap in Germany. I had the
chicken one every day for breakfast for budget restrictions related reasons,
and they’re under 2€! What a steal! When can I move!
