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I had a strange, but not completely atypical, experience at Lenzig, a neighborhood café, today: I ordered food and “Leitungswasser” – tap water. Lenzig is a nice neighborhood café – the kind of place where most customers are regulars, the food predictable, and the atmosphere pleasant. It’s nothing I would travel out of my way […] Morgen Latte. I have a strange relationship with coffee, and a terrible relationship with caffeine. Basically, if I get too much caffeine in my system, I cannot sleep. Unfortunately for me, “too much caffeine” is defined as “more than one cup of coffee”, or, even worse, “coffee after 11:00 in the morning”. Given my […] I know that a month or so ago I praised Sankt Oberholz as my new potential regular coffee shop – but it hasn’t actually become my regular haunt – in part because it’s a 45 minute trip by U-Bahn, each way, to the coffee shop, and when I want coffee, that’s a long time.
One way that I have adapted to life in Berlin is that I’m much more likely to go shopping at street markets than I was in Weimar – principally because there was only one in Weimar and, well, it never really entered my shopping patterns to go there. Here in Berlin, I wouldn’t call myself […] This morning one of my colleagues and I headed to a nearby Imbiss – I’d noticed the signs advertising it a few weeks ago and decided I wanted to go – mainly for the view, not for the food. However it’s in a red-neck type of setting and I decided I wanted company – hence […] With living in an international city I’ve become accustomed to the fact that there are multilingual signs everywhere you would expect to find them: the train station (German, English, and French), the airport (German and English), and the Turkish Supermarket (Turkish and German). However, I’m not offended when something is solely in German – say, […] Date & Time: Today, Wednesday, 8 September, 2010, 09:45 Where: Berlin’s Car-Dealer and Coffee-Shop in One Lancia Lifestyle Lounge Friedrichstrasse, “Quartier 110” (Corner of Friedrichstrasse & Mohrenstrasse, see below) Actually, it’s more than a car dealership and coffee shop in one, it is a “lifestyle lounge” — which means that, at least inside, […] |
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