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German toilets: Giving shite a stage 27 Aug 2013 | 02:59 am
Some toilets in Germany have viewing platforms so you can inspect your produce after producing it. They even have a name for them as Gilly pointed out last week – Flachspüler. So they’re important eno...
Zombie hospital: Running out of patients 19 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
There’s a zombie hospital in Weißensee. It used to be for kids but they were all eaten, their brains gorged upon by the zombies that took their place. Now they call it home, making it a zombie hospita...
The Brehme-Palace 15 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
The Berlin City Palace isn’t the only one they’re building. In the north of the city, in Pankow, on Brehmestraße, they’ll soon start construction on the “Brehme-Palace,” a magnificent beacon of all th...
New world 13 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
I like my new place, even if I haven’t had time to settle into it yet. Sure, I got the keys and my name’s on the door, but circumstances over the past week have prevented me from really moving in, rea...
End of a world 1 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
It’s the end of the world as we know it. I don’t know that I feel fine. Tomorrow I get the keys to my new place. Tonight is the night before everything changes for all of us. I guess it’s a good thing...
Staying cool at the Eisfabrik 29 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
It may not produce ice anymore, but the old Eisfabrik has apparently become a pretty cool place to hang out as Berlin swelters in the summer heat. You couldn’t really say it’s abandoned anymore. It’s ...
Ireland, Summer(!) 2013 20 Jul 2013 | 11:08 pm
Usually I’m happy to come back from Ireland, having been reminded of the reasons I left it in the first place. Perhaps this time though, because I’d been more than adequately reminded of them before w...
Summer’s in Ireland 13 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
We’re in Ireland. I think it’s Ireland. They told us it’s Ireland and it’s full of Irish, but the sun’s shining so I’m not sure. Clouds have been suspiciously absent the last couple of days and it’s w...
Güterbahnhof Pankow (End of the line for the railroad yard) 5 Jul 2013 | 04:44 pm
The only trains left at the Güterbahnhof Pankow are the trains of thought. Even the tracks are gone, taken away lest the carriages that once trundled through feel like trundling through again. Yes, th...
Golf attack and Pep talk in Munich 26 Jun 2013 | 02:50 am
Well, I survived the golf, easily the most boring assignment I have had to endure. It’s the only boring one, in fact, that I’ve had to endure. Golf itself has to be the most pointless, utterly futile ...