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July 10, 2005

Waiting for buses and bizarre stuff in Berlin

I went to Berlin two weeks ago (yes, I know, Im totally neglecting this blog). Its the ideal destination for a short (in the case 4-day) getaway, as I have friends there I can stay with and hang out with,...

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October 24, 2004

Farewell to Berlin

I happened to be in Berlin on the day of German Unification. Naivly I expected this to be the reason for wild parties, German Unification in my mind is still synonymous with extatic people breaking down the wall, Wir sind...

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October 14, 2004

An ode to Görlitzer Park

Ocasionally, something bad can lead to something good. Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg, Berlin is a good example of this. The centre of this wonderful park is a large bomb-crater. An act of destruction has unconsciously created a happy place (not...

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September 29, 2004

Culture shock

Europe looks so ugly from the air! And boring too, it`s all the same from Moscow to Berlin. But once I was on terra firma again, I was amazed at how clean and bright everything looked, and how orderly the...

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June 07, 2004

Review Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2004

There seemed to be less people at the WGT in Leipzig (for more on the city itself, read my previous post) this year than the previous years. It may have had something to do with the fact that the line-up...

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June 06, 2004

7 million steps to heaven

Leipzig imho is one of the most underrated cities in Germany....

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June 02, 2004

Berliner moodswings # 3 - Last night in Berlin

I was not the only one suffering from moodswings. On monday evening, my friend Mimi had gotten home around half past eight, declared she had had an absolutely horrible day, and fell asleep immediately. She said later several people at...

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May 30, 2004

Berliner moodswings #2 - Floral therapy

I had to do something to cheer myself up. I could not have the trip of a lifetime, or the part of it spent in m favourite city so far, ruined by a mere bad mood. I wasn´t sure where...

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May 26, 2004

Berliner moodswings # 1

Berlin is a city with many different faces, and apparantly it can inspire many different moods in me. Monday I had planned to go on a boattrip from Treptower Park, not far from where my friends with whom I´m staying...

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