#Berlin
Eat & DrinkBerlin: Pêle Mêle
For the first nine months that I lived in Berlin, I was a resident of Neukölln, one of the city's poster children/scapegoats for gentrification. But it seems…
March 20, 2014 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkBerlin: No Milk Today
People from abroad always ask me about how easy it is to eat a cruelty-free diet here in Germany, and many are surprised when I insist that it's not that hard.…
March 15, 2014 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSchon Wieder Frühling
Berlin is a tricky city to live in, weather-wise. Generally speaking, the winters are extra long, the summers are scattered with thunderstorms, and those…
March 14, 2014 · 3 min read
Eat & DrinkBerlin: Roamers
If there's one thing Berlin has enough of, it's coffee shops, but as a freelancer always needing to get out of the house for a change of scenery, that's…
March 13, 2014 · 3 min read
Life & TimesA Stroll around Berlin
One of the things I love about living in such a big city is that there are endless things to explore, even in my own neighborhood. These photos are from an…
January 23, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Volkspark Friedrichshain
According to Berlin's website, there are more than 2,500 public parks in the city, and though I have been to a handful of them, until last week I'd never…
January 16, 2014 · 3 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Wochenmarkt Boxhagenerplatz
Hard to believe it, but even though I only live a short 30-minute walk away from Boxhagenerplatz, I've never been to the weekly Saturday market. But this past…
January 13, 2014 · 2 min read
Life & TimesWinter is Here
It's the first day of winter, aka the shortest day of the year, aka the first day of vacation! M. and I are lucky to be work-free until early January, which…
December 21, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesWhisk(e)y Memories
One of my first memories of when I drank whisky (because let's just forget the college years that consisted of endless shots of Jack Daniels and Jameson) was…
December 9, 2013 · 5 min read
Life & TimesTreptower Park & Hafen
It's difficult to believe that December is already here; this year seems to have flown by. And it's now advent season (interestingly enough, something Germans…
December 1, 2013 · 2 min read
Life & TimesBerlin: Gendarmenmarkt Christmas Market
Christmas Market season is here! Yeah yeah, I know they can get a bit eh, and many of the markets are pretty much carbon copies of one another, but it's still…
December 1, 2013 · 3 min read
Life & TimesHomesick + Holidays
It has been a rough couple of weeks for me lately, as--aside from some longer-term health issues that we both dealt with--I am struggling with an intense wave…
November 24, 2013 · 6 min read