#Berlin
Here & ThereOranienburg: KZ Sachsenhausen
This past week, I paid a visit to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, one of the concentration camps from the Third Reich, in Germany. Located in the Brandenburg town…
July 14, 2012 · 5 min read
Life & TimesSummer? in Berlin
It’s officially summer, although you wouldn’t always know that here in Berlin. That’s because the weather is so hit and miss, raining one day and hot the next.…
June 29, 2012 · 4 min read
Here & ThereWhirlwind Weekend.
If the title of this blog post is any indication, the past weekend was a bit… how shall I put it? Packed. And taking into account my love of alliteration, the…
May 25, 2012 · 4 min read
Life & TimesMeine Woche.
It has been an interesting week, to say the least: full of plenty of highs and a handful of lows… but nothing that I can’t handle. On Sunday I headed down to…
April 21, 2012 · 6 min read
Life & TimesLiving the dream.
Today was the only day this week when I had no work or obligations, and rather than spend it doing some extra freelance work, instead I made the decision to…
April 14, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSnail Mail Surprises.
Living in a foreign country has definitely been a whirlwind experience, but now that I’m - as of today - officially nine months into the whole thing, my life…
April 13, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesSpring!
I don’t exactly how/when it happened, but as of sometime in the past few weeks, it’s suddenly Spring in Berlin. Normally, the seasons changing are subtle to…
April 10, 2012 · 3 min read
Life & TimesElite, yo.
For slightly longer than five years, I’ve been a member of the website Yelp.com, which - for those who don’t know - is a website where users can post reviews…
March 10, 2012 · 2 min read
Life & TimesVisa Obtained.
After nearly eight months in Germany (five of which overstay my initial tourist visa) and a bureaucratic nightmare worth of paperwork, I finally have my…
March 8, 2012 · 1 min read
Life & Times"March is a gonna be a fucker..."
It seems like the worst of the winter is over. Already March is full of lots of rain, but there’s also warmer weather, which is one of the advantages of cloud…
March 2, 2012 · 4 min read
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January Recapitulation.
January started out cold, and loud. At midnight, the fireworks around the city were exploding, and we had a sixth-floor view from which to take it all in.…
February 27, 2012 · 2 min read
Life & TimesTürkischer Markt.
For months, I’ve been hearing about Türkischer Markt, the Turkish farmer’s market in North-Neukölln, but never made it there myself. Basically, it’s a long row…
February 17, 2012 · 3 min read