Reality bites...

Playlist

Tutino - Riccardo III

LaSalle Quartet - Recordings For SWR German Radio (1965-77)

Udo Lindenberg - Panik mit Hut - Die Singles von 1972 bis 2005

Die Ärzte - Geräusch

Falco - The Remix Hit Collection

Françoise Hardy - Frag' Den Abendwind

Laura Pausini - Laura (Spanish Edition)

Adel Tawil - So Schön Anders

Leszek Możdżer - Komeda

Various Composers - Alpha Classics Autumn 2018

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Subramaniam - L Subramaniam & the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra

Frank Wolff - Cello Solo

Weyse - Weyse: Symphonies #1 & 7

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

Various Composers - The Essential Hyperion 2

And so October bites the dust...

Two holidays, so it can't be bad!

Today though, soundtracked by Berlin acquisitions and post the second holiday, back to reality...

And another CD purchase...

Home this evening for Halloween...

The Exec Producer was out and about and so, home alone, instead of doing anything too constructive,  or listening to new purchases, I watched three episodes of "Supernatural"...

No one came to the door to perform for goody drops...

Oh well...

Today's artwork, "A Speeding Car at the Top of the Hill"...



Highlight of the Day : Supernatural catch up...

Farewell to Berlin...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vols 1-52

Fehlfarben - Monarchie Und Alltag (Remaster)

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Fur Immer

Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vols 1-52

Various Composers - Neue Meister Live in Berlin

Various Composers - Alpha Classics Autumn 2018

Falco - The Remix Hit Collection
Laura Pausini - Circus Maximus, Roma 2018

The view from the office this morning, including field recorder doing its stuff...



Out into the sun...

...and down Schönhauser Allee...

...and round the corner into Ebersfelderstrasse...

...for porridge...

Post breakfast, a last walk along Kastanienallee...

...past the Zionskirche...



...at which point the long street becomes Weinbergsweg...

...all the way to Rosenthalerplatz...

From where we took a tram back home...

...and enjoyed the sun on the balcony...

...before making our final exit from the Zarenhof Russian Hotel - the quietest hotel we've ever stayed in - fabulous..

To the U-Bahn for a U2 up to...

...the station at Schönhauser Allee...

...and an S-Bahn to Beusselstraße...

...and an absolutely packed airport bus to, erm, the airport...

Where lunch was enjoyed...

...before heading through security to the gate...

The plane was delayed...

...but we were soon in the air and on the way back to Scotchand...

Auf wiedersehn Berlin...

The shadow of the plane...

..hello Scotchland...

We flew in from the West, over Livingston...

...and the M8...

...landing just before 5...

Through passport check and a bus home and a trundle up the hill and unpacking, ripping, reading and listening...



Top notch trip...

Later in the evening, found a 2.5 hour broadcast from Italian TV of Laura Pausini's latest tour - what more does an old codger returning from Berlin need?

Today's artwork, "Zionskirche"...

Highlight of the Day : Getting home...