We had another wonderful day in Berlin. Walking, walking, walking all over. We had lunch in a leafy hip neighborhood in East Berlin. The restaurant was a faux Mexican restaurant called Frida Kahlo. As p5roper expats in Mexico, we paid homage to Dear Fridha. Earlier, we viewed Checkpoint Charlie, The Sony Complex, The Brandenburg gate, and most especially The Holocaust Memorial. The experience at the Memorial was tangible and emotional. From an artistic viewpoint, the BEST!!!! Later in the evening we found a delightful restaurant in Mitte called WKD Libensmittel. It is both an Organic Grocery Store and a small restaurant….very hip…very delicious….very Berlin. Today we leave for Istanbul and Berlin has been a most delightful experience. What a City!
Archives for September 2007
Art in Berlin
Berlin 2
The streets of Berlin Mitte are visually stunning. Years ago this was East Berlin. Now it is teaming with creativity and color. Very cool art. I am reminded of Soho in the 70’s. Here are some more photos. By the way, the graffiti rivals that of Mexico City. I am a fan of street art…and they have it down here. Riding on the trains through Berlin is a high speed tour of not only beautiful neighborhoods and parks, but an opportunity to view truly outrageous and colorful graffiti. Adios and Love!!! By the way, don’t tell anyone, but we are in Starbuck’s near Checkpoint Charlie, using the wireless…ssssshhhhh!!!!!
Being in Berlin 1
Well kids, Berlin is the hippest city in the world. I may be an old hippie but I am still a great judge of where the edge cuts precisely and direct. First the food. We had currywurst and pommes (only in Berlin food item) at a food imbisse (kiosk) in an underground train station. Dinner at a ultra fabulous restaurant in the gritty beyond hip East Berlin. Lunch at a Vietnamese Restaurant, small menu but rivals and surpasses the Slanted Door in San Francisco. Tonight we are going back to Berlin Mitte (East Berlin Art Area). We are having a totally divine time. We feel so very lucky. Love to all. Jimmy Ray is a groovin’ and a movin’….Lots of ideas!!! By the way, the food last night rivals any restaurant we have ever visited…but the prices were absolutely cheap in comparison to quality. Very cool.
Berlin Bound after Buchheim-ing a Bit
Today we went to a lovely museum on an idyllic lake outside of Munich names the Buchheim Museum.
It houses a very very very interesting, whimsical, psychedelic,expressionist, and very German collection. All of this amazi9ng stuff once belonged to Lothar-Gunther Buchheim…this man wrote Das Boot. The architecture is somewhat nautical….Richard and I both enjoyed ourselves…later we went to a small village and had a late round of Bavarian food and a couple of Dark Beers. Tomorrow we head for Berlin. This time in Munich with Niharika has been quite divine. Her persuit of Silence is remarkable. I often wonder these past few days if I have strayed from that Silence…I am where I am at that is what is…no place else to be but right here….Berlin tomorrow. Enclosed are some photos from to day and from Linz…that bearded fellow with me at the museum just may be my future self….actually he is a Chemist from Brussels that we met at the Buchheim…Love to all!!
Whew-py Hundertwasser/Vienna!!!
Vienna was extra-special. It was a long 5 hour drive…sometimes at 100mph in a Mercedes sedan…in a driving rainstorm that whitened my knuckles clinging to the leather seats….but oh…Vienna. A truely beautiful city in the meeting of the Old and New. Seeing KundstHause Wien and Hundertwasser House were absolutely like “Going to the Chapel”….the whole time Jimmy Ray stayed to himself as Richard, Niharika, Hans, and myself marvelled in the joyous architecture that this man left behind. It was raining during our whole stay there, but quite frankly it did not matter and we ate and ate and ate. We were only there for a little over 24 hours, but my heart will always remember this lovely city….even the late night beers with the Russian pencil sales people in the hotel bar was….mah-velous..Love to all!! Before I forget; The Pope was there….the closest we got was a subway poster. Bulletin: Lolita gets a free facial next time in San Miguel for revisiting this blog. Does anyone know Patrice’s address in Mexico City? Also Carol gets the loyalty award because Patzky and Slidell can’t read…