So I had a few days in Berlin for myself, for the first time without an agenda full of things to do. A lonely holiday without MeinMann, but a holiday nevertheless. For the first time I could relax at a place I could call “home” and not “the building site”.
I could take the measure of space and see how the light floods the flat at the different times of the day. It was me and my little Saturn Eur 4.99 alarm-clock radio set on JazzRadio 101.9. No TV. No Mac, no PC. No ipod, cd, dvd.
A nice interview in the Tagesspiegel with Simone Weil , from Carla Bruni and Angela Merkel to her experience in Auschwitz and her achievements as a young bride and mother of 3 in the professional and later political arena (“I am the alibi woman, the one that is pointed to as an example when they talk about women’s emancipation, but as of today not enough women have real opportunities and it is a scandal that there are still huge salary differences between men and women”).
Interesting feature on Prenzl’berg and some sort of contrast between residents from before the Wende (1989) and those arrived with the Gentrifizierung. Issues about prams in cafes (or rather, out).
About cafes, sunday is always a bit of a roulette russe, but at last I’ve found the hidden gems which are open on sundays, especially on cold sundays! A nice tearoom called TeaTheTee in Goltzstrasse, a paradise for exigent noses looking for good tea blends. And OroNero, a cosy cafe in Akazienstrasse, which is definitely the “best coffee street” of the Kiez. The girls’ special giant cappuccino is a blessing on wintry mornings. Yes, because…spring by sunday morning had already side-stepped and disappeared!
Sunday papers, a nice cappuccino, a brisk walk under the lead-grey sky to Viktoria Luise Platz. A nice sunday lunch and a chat over a glass of prosecco with our neighbors M+D…who are real berliners since almost a year now!
From last sunday I took away one word. Trendresistant. I found it in some press article. I think it describes very well the Berlin I love. Some may consider Berlin “trendy” (argh! the horrible word!). For me, it’s trendresistant…
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