Birthday boy...

Cloudland Blue Quartet – Track of the Day
“I Believed You Said We Dreamt” from “Soundingfall” (2009)

Playlist
Udo Lindenberg - Stark wie Zwei
Udo Lindenberg - Alles Klar auf der Andrea Doria
Udo Lindenberg - Ball Pompoes
Herman van Veen - Solange der Vorrat reicht
Various Composers - Musik am Preussischen Hofe
Nina Hagen - Personal Jesus
Ich + Ich - Ich + Ich
Keimzeit - 1,000 Leute wie Ich

Happy birthday to your correspondent, my eighth on the blog...

2005-2008

2009-2012

Up before 6am...



The view from the balcony...





Breakfast as usual, on another sunny day...



To the U Bahn, day tickets bought...





 ...and over to the longest remaining part of the Berlin Wall...





I started taking pictures of every panel but soon ran out of space on the memeory card in the camera - so here are twenty of the best panels I ended up keeping...



Anne's favourite...







My favourite...





Anne's second favourite...




























What's left of the wall stretches all the way back along this street...



Back on the S Bahn and North to Auguststrasse, the arty area of Berlin...



Into the KW gallery complex...





Lovely coffee...



Only once I looked more closely at this, did I see the poster in the background for the 80's film "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo"...















Berlin's most famous squat/arts venue...



Back on the train, further North to the district of Wedding and found the place which recently sent me a Glenn Gould 3CD set...



Birthday CDs were purchased...

A convoluted journey home but we eventually arrived...





...for coffee and Apfeltaschen on the balcony...



...and listening to my holiday purchases...





Out for our last evening...

We never did manage a sausage from berlin's most famous Schnell Imbiss...



...but we did return to "...an einem Sonntag im August..."





...just opposite the Prater Biergarten...



...for more bier..



...then, to Naan for our final dinner...





...before heading out into the darkness...



...and ending up in Morgenrot for more drinks...





...and the purchase of a German version of The Big Issue...



These bears entertained on the way home...



And, finally, a collage comprising superimpostion of 52 of the 60 odd panels of the Berlin Wall which I ended up keeping...



Highlight of the Day : Being a birthday boy...