I’m having lunch at a Vietnamese restaurant, listening to French music, in Berlin.
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It really is indicative of my stay in Berlin – not that I feel like I’m in Paris but because I’ve met more foreigners, especially, Parisians, here than I have met actual Berliners. I did spend quality time with a few Germans living in Berlin but my associations, by far, have been with foreigners living in Berlin.
AG from Bremen (northern Germany) who is currently living in Berlin
HJ from Malaysia, working on her PhD in Berlin
FF from Scotland, living and working here in Berlin
SCCB from Paris, here on business
CS from Switzerland, here to practice her German
SM from Spain, here on holiday
LG from Sankt Peter-Ording (northern Germany), here working
3 girls in my hostel room, from Paris, on a 2-week journey around Europe
Berlin is an international hub and melting pot.
In the last 2 days here here, I’ve been to museums, an art gallery, a bicycle tour of the main historical sites with fellow couchsurfers, a local hole-in-the-wall bar, the Berlin Beer Festival (2km long beer garden!), and a 6-floor industrial/goth night club. I’ve eaten Swiss, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indian foods, and drunk a lot of German beer. I’ve been out until 5 in the morning almost every night (bars/clubs don’t close until most people have left and there is no last call for alcohol) and I’ve woken up early to do it all over again. Of course, after I crashed my rental bicycle this morning, I decided it would be better for me to take it easier today.
Beer festival sounds (2:34:00) (me trying to order in German, my fellow couchsurfers, random people at the bar chatting with us):
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