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Tonmorrow we have to shift luggage six times at least. Again on Monday night and Tuesday.
Irina, according to the Museum fur Naturkunde, was right: the birds in Vondelpark were magpies. They are bigger and rounder than the magpies I am used to seeing in the Central Valley. We did see hooded crows all over Berlin.
I brought the wrong shoes and I am nearly crippled, but since Emma needs to rest a lot I'm not ruining things.
Frank has been discovering the disaffected club scene everywhere we go. I have been photographing graffiti, birds, and brickwork. A couple of blocks from the hostel there is an endless squat, not inside a building but in its former parking lot, many odd little dwellings made of abandoned bits like in a favela or something. Behind them is a huge brick building which was apparently burned at one time and whose broken edges have been decorated with political and esthetic graffiti. Then there is a huge yellow crane which is poised, I think, to bring the building down, right on top of the squat.
In Amsterdam the rentable computers had the kind of keyboard I am used to. Here the keyboard is odd. The Z is in the top row, and the Y is in the bottom row, and there are umlauted O and A keys (which is understandable), and no double apostrophe for quotes, and some other characters which I think one must use the control key to get.
Have to sign off now -- used up my time.
Irina, according to the Museum fur Naturkunde, was right: the birds in Vondelpark were magpies. They are bigger and rounder than the magpies I am used to seeing in the Central Valley. We did see hooded crows all over Berlin.
I brought the wrong shoes and I am nearly crippled, but since Emma needs to rest a lot I'm not ruining things.
Frank has been discovering the disaffected club scene everywhere we go. I have been photographing graffiti, birds, and brickwork. A couple of blocks from the hostel there is an endless squat, not inside a building but in its former parking lot, many odd little dwellings made of abandoned bits like in a favela or something. Behind them is a huge brick building which was apparently burned at one time and whose broken edges have been decorated with political and esthetic graffiti. Then there is a huge yellow crane which is poised, I think, to bring the building down, right on top of the squat.
In Amsterdam the rentable computers had the kind of keyboard I am used to. Here the keyboard is odd. The Z is in the top row, and the Y is in the bottom row, and there are umlauted O and A keys (which is understandable), and no double apostrophe for quotes, and some other characters which I think one must use the control key to get.
Have to sign off now -- used up my time.
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there is an endless squat
There are lots of squats in Berlin - it used to be the squat capital of Germany. There are two reasons for that - one, there used to be a lot of really nice houses condemned (many of them old Jugendstil buildings, with high ceilings and stucco, needing a lot of work, but my, *nice* houses); and Berlin used to be THE city to attract anyone into music and raves and drugs and being hip. Not in the least because living in Berlin excempted one from being drafted for the army.