Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Back in Berlin...

Playlist
Various - iPod Shuffleplay
The Bad Plus - Inevitable Western
The Bad Plus - Prog
Tangerine Dream - Poland
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex (Details)
William Basinski - Water Music
Kronos Quartet - Winter Was Hard
Various - Berlin 61 / 89: Wall of Sound (1 West Side)
Tangerine Dream - The Keep OST

Up far too early as usual...


Some last minute mucking about before we headed to the airport around midday for a trip to Berlin - we'd had our accomodation cancelled out of the blue but had managed to rearrange just in time...


The ubiquitous wing-shot...


..and our target...


We had booked a trip up this in advance...


Landed without incident...


...and out...


...and a bus journey to Rudlow...


...followed by an U-Bahn journey, which took us through Neukolln, as featured on side two of David Bowie's "Heroes"...


...to Konsanzerstrasse and a short walk and we were at our hotel in Wilmersdorf...


...instead of our apartment in 45 minutes away Prenzlauer Berg...

Nice view though...


A quick unpack and out to explore the environs...


We were just a few steps away from the luxury stores of the Kurfurstendamm...



...where we saw the first of many Berlin bears...




...and some strange street furniture...


Finding a nearby restaurant, we enjoyed our first drink of the holiday...


...and some tasty Italian food - oops - at least there was a modicum of sausage related content...


Further walking (in all we covered almost 70 miles during the trip), we found a book shop, which I never did get round to exploring during daylight hours...


Portrait of the Exec Producer in Berlin at night...


More (very expensive) beer in nearby Hefner, in Sauvignyplatz...




...and a walk home in the dark...



...and looking at more shops we would not later enter...




Let the games begin...

Highlight of the Day : Back in Berlin...

No comments: