Once more into the heart of Deutschland...

Playlist

Fehlfarben - Handbuch für die Welt

Fehlfarben - Knietief im Dispo

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Callingstill

Gabi Delgado - 1

A double moon this morning...

Not really...

Out into the dark...

...and trundling down the hill...

...to the airport...

Breakfast while watching the planes...

Out and into the air...

...and down into the heart of Germany...

...for our third trip to Berlin since 2012...

This time, a Russian Hotel in Prenzlauer Berg, arriving just after 2...

The view from the office this afternoon...

Out to this place on our street, for a late lunch...

...of hearty German fayre to get us going...

This was a bit like haggis or black pudding...

...followed by a walk along Chestnut Alley...

...ending up at...

...an einem Sontag im August...

...for coffee and beer...

...before taking the S Bahn into town - we'd purchased two seven day tickets at the airport, even though we're only here for six, we still save a bit versus daily day tickets...

To the Hackesche Höfe...

...the first of many places we'd already been to which we'd visit again on this trip...

Nearby, reconstruction continues...

A walk towards the Cathedral...

We spotted this memorial to educator and progressive liberal, Adolph Diesterweg...

...before heading on past the Cathedral...

...to the university district...

...and my first of a couple of visits to Dussman, the culture supermarket...

...where, almost inevitably, a couple of discs were partaken of...

Further walking to a nearby bar, in Oranienburgerstrasse, Aufsturz, in the building...



 ...where Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science, Alexander von Humboldt once lived - the University is named after him...

After having enjoyed Weissbier with banana on our Baden-Baden trip in the summer, I was happy to find it on the menu here too...

Yum (although it doesn't look yum)...

A tram back to Alexanderplatz...

... and a U-Bahn back home...

...for a rest and to have a quick listen via the net to the new purchases...

...before heading out for a light tea at the best kebab shop in Berlin...

...and then, to Morgenrot...

 ...for some beers...

Exec Producer in the mirror, top left, Exec Producing...

Interesting shop window on the way home...

End of the first day...

A good one...

Good to be back...

Today's artwork, "The Culture Supermarket"...

Highlight of the Day : Back in Berlin...