Berlin Bites

The day after my last blog was a very still day, so after a breakfast of homemade muesli, we decided to go sailing. Eventually the wind picked and we zipped around the lake.

That evening my Franken friend took me for some franken food. Frankly, it was a fabulous Franken feast.

Lots of beer to choose from, all from one region.

And lots of delicious food.

Other highlights of my week in Berlin included:

• Drinking cocktails in a bar with images of Seoul projected on the wall.
  
  


• Walking along the canal with Captain and eating under a weeping willow in candle light (so dark I looked Gorgeous).
  

Captain (who insisted on a name change from NerdHead) looked alright too.

• Shopping for shoes. Sometimes they have my size on display. I don't feel like an awkward stomping giant.
  

Thankfully, I had my current adventures with V&A to look forward to on my return from Berlin, or I don't think I'd have been able to board the plane home. More on these adventures later....

Wurst of Times?

First thing on arriving I ate Curry Wurst. Delicious. Berlin has proved gastronomically great since then. With potato dumplings, pork, REAL bread, Vietnamese food all thrown into the mix. NerdHead, my host, has been supplying me with some of the best, heartiest breakfasts I've ever had.

Berlin is a beautiful mixture of architect reflecting the extremes of it's history: old and new, East and West, clean and dirty, triumphant and penitent. Last night we went to the beautiful Sony Centre to watch 'Inception' (lives upto the hype). Having drank a coke the size of an elephant's bladder I had to dash to the toilets in the middle of the movie. Standing under a pool of water looking up at a skyscraper through a tent like dome that changes colour, I couldn't tell if I was in a dream or reality. I expected Leonardo DiCaprio to turn up at any second.