love.

Most of 2010 I made excuses for not enjoying Berlin completely. My main complaint's were; not earning enough money, the cold brutal Winter, being without certain beauties of friends, going an entire year without eggs benedict from 'The Fridge' and the grungy state of the city in general. It's only now after having exhausted all excuses that I've fallen completely and madly in love with Berlin.

Thanks to Natalee for taking some pretty perfect shots of Berlin during her visit.

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what a weekend

Something that is never disappointing? Days and nights exploring the different boroughs in Berlin.

Saturday night was spent exploring Kottbusser Tor with a friend who unbelievably had her first excursion to Kreuzberg after living in Berlin for longer than any of us.

We began with a visit to Luzia - complete with vintage furniture, baroque wallpaper and built-in human size dollhouse. Across the road shining brightly were the words "Insert coin" - sitting pretty next to a trashy billboard. For only 10 cents in the slot machine this dico art installation named tamamümemu began. A big disco ball started spinning, lights shined bright, a gay anthem blared (Chaka Khan's 'I'm ever woman') and 3 pairs of happy feet danced up a storm. Much to the onlookers amusement.

 

Fits of laughter

 We carried onto Multi Layer Laden where we sat on crates, sipping and absorbing our surroundings. A large cardboard cassette rotated, a home-made jukebox played pretty tunes and a creepy mannequin with duct tape over her mouth lingered over Sarah's shoulder. After a few of the best damn G&T's in town we started to notice the collection of rather explicit artwork gracing the walls. Feeling sufficiently trance-like we decided to leave and try out the bar above Kaiser's. After about 10 minutes of dancing next to a group of vigorous fist pumping Deutsch Jungen resembling something from Jersey Shore, we decided to call it a night.  
 

 

Sunday began with sunshine and basketball

 

Sunday was filled with pretty friends, tasty brunch and a cappuccino stop by Gorlitzer Park.

 

Then Sunday ended with my very first beef and ale pie.

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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” - Pat Conroy 

Seoul, South Korea

Check out the other places we visited during 2010 here...

up to our elbows in Ethiopian

That one's my Valentine

My Valentines day was beaut. We started off the evening with a bit of pressy sharing underground in the Heinrich Heine U-bahn, tried out a new restaurant that served wonderful Ethiopian food and finished the evening snuggled up and drowning in giggles, watching Parks and Recreation. Last night was the second time I've eaten with my hands in public, the first was at Medieval Times on a family trip to LA. Last night, less awkward, a lot tastier and absolutely no men with swords galloping on horses. I would recommend this lovely little Ethiopian restaurant to anyone visiting Berlin. If not for some truly superb food then for a pretty funny experience. The pictures really do speak for themselves, particularly the aftermath shot where you see we had no trouble devouring the mountain of food.

For those in Berlin - check this.. http://www.bluenileberlin.de/1.html

A pretty full tum

Already dreaming up a few new owlfits..hehe

 

Happy belated Valentines all my pretty's

xxx

what cool kids do on Mondays

Gangrene - The Alchemist & Oh No

 More photos after the jump..

an experiment with an air pump

Signed up to volunteer at the English Theater Berlin in Jan. Just got a phone call to help next Tuesday - premier night of 'An experiment with an air pump'. Really excited about getting to see some English theater! To the peeps in Berlin who are sticking around, you should also do this.

Yuss

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