Peekaboo. Yes, I am back. Anybody out there? Quick re-cap: I left Berlin shores and went south to pitch my tent in Munich, not the capital of cool but of the free state of Bavaria (for a post on in-country nationalism of truly corkonian proportions, please stay tuned). But as no Berlin blog is complete [...]
Aaaaaah, thank God for Berlin public transport. Whenever you run out of things to say on a blog, they will help you out. And although I already have a nice anecdote of how public transport brings out the best in Berliners, I think the world simply cannot do without another two cents from me on [...]
Alright folks, in times like these there are so many more important things to worry about than unpublished writers moving from Berlin to Munich. Still I didn’t want to just migrate my blog and myself without posting at least a small proof that www.inallthewriteplaces.com will be a worthy successor of www.writeinberlin.com when it comes to [...]
So the time has come. One inevitable part of my move to Munich next month is the much-dreaded goodbye from my Write in Berlin blog – as it was. As announced, I have decided to move the home of my unmissable insights and thoughts to a more geographically versatile domain. So I proudly present: www.InAllTheWritePlaces.com Not [...]
Maybe, after enjoying the elusive Irish health system first hand for over five years (Ah, the fond memories of spending nights in A&E departments to no avail - I really should have started this blog earlier!), I might become easily excited as soon as I meet a doctor whose advice surpasses the “Get into bed, [...]
Maybe I should have seen the writing on the wall much earlier. Like when, shortly after arriving in Berlin last year, I took the personality test of the brilliant blog Ich werde ein Berliner. The result told me in no uncertain terms that I was a misfit to hipster paradise Berlin only equalled by Karl [...]
The end of my humble blog’s first year is nigh, and call it irony or not – it ends just like it started: With a blanket of pristine whiteness, waiting for me to fill the canvas with all the trials and tribulations of an unbelievably eventful, intense and challenging year, just like 2010 was. Last [...]
Good news. There actually IS a topic out there that sends even more Berliners running around waving their hands in panic than the immanent threat of the complete and utter gentrification of Berlin. It’s evil data kraken Google and its even more evil spawn, Google Street View. In fact, it is the number one frown-and-creased-forehead-inducing topic [...]
Berlin is able to brew up some pleasant weirdness in the most unlikely places. Recent example: A classy evening with hubby and our Spanish-turned-Berliner friend Sonia. Looking for some good old square Western charme, I had booked a table at the ”Alterberliner Gasthaus” (Old Berlin Inn) Schöneberger Weltlaterne (Andreas H. – thanks for that remark you [...]
Strrrriiike! Finally I had a customer service experience worth stepping into the shoes of the infamous Summer Dress Saga and even the Faustian contract that was a DVD-rental. I have found out that antiquaries/second-hand book stores are real treasuries full of customer service encounters of the third kind. As happened in Berlin Charlottenburg’s Pestalozzistraße, where [...]
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