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[Berlin Diary] Friday - daytime
As I had managed to go to bed just before 9, getting up at a bit after 2 wasn't too bad. Had breakfast, got ready and took taxi to Drummer St.
The coach was quick and the check-in queue was short so I had some time to kill which I spend having another breakfast and reading. Boarding involved the usual hecticness with Ryanair but the flight itself was fine, even if the seats weren't really comfortable. It was a bit wet in Berlin but at least the main queue for passport control was inside but long. Because of that long wait, my luggage had arrived by the time I got to luggage claim and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lsur was waiting outside, too.
We took the S-Bahn in and only had to change once to a tram.lsur's flat is literally around the corner from the tram stop and has various other amenities (like a baker's where we picked up some cake) nearby, too. Met two of his flatmates, Miran(sp?) and Dean(sp?). It's a huge place with huge rooms (formerly a factory/warehouse building) and quite cool, actually, just a bit unfinished.
Got settled in, chatted a bit and then headed out. My first object was shopping so we went to find the record shops I mentioned on Friday, found that another one mentioned in the guide book had disappeared but the final one was still there and boy was it good.
It's in Haus Schwarzenberg, which houses various historic exhibitions, art projects and other stuff, including Neurotitan, a combined book/comic/record/stuff shop with attached gallery.Loads of comics, graphic novels but almost all of them off the beaten track (foreign, indie, local artists etc), stuff/tat and CDs/records, again far off the beaten track with categories like "Breakcore/Hard Stuff", "Guitars Involved", "Strange/Unclassified". The former category obviuosly immediately caught my eye and it contained loads of Ad Noiseam and Hymen but actually very little Ant Zen and Hands, so even in the Noise spectrum is was the really obscure stuff, maybe that was why they didn't have any Tarmvred but they did have Wilt and Cordell Klier... I had to curb my spending as they would only take cash, which was probably a good thing, otherwise I would have spent the rest of the day in there listening to stuff I didn't know. For those interested, I will post my shopping list sometime tomorrow or so when I've got everything together.. The rest of the house is very interesting as well, quite dilapidated but still maintained. There are two very odd mechanical sculptures in the courtyard (photos forthcoming). Very interesting, you could probably spend a day exploring it all, if you wanted to see all the exhibitions and projects.
Then there was more exploring of Berlin (Museumsinsel, Berliner Dom, former GDR Palast der Republik and then towards Alexanderplatz. We were both quite hungry at that point so we thought some typical traditional German fare would be exactly the right thing to get us through the long night ahead and it was. We both had game (lsur wild boar and I a "Hubertus-Pfanne" with roast deer and boar, both with all the trimmings and a nice dark beer to wash it down with. Well sated and satisfied, we walked around Alexanderplatz for a bit made our way back to the flat to rest a bit and then get changed to go out.
to be continued
The coach was quick and the check-in queue was short so I had some time to kill which I spend having another breakfast and reading. Boarding involved the usual hecticness with Ryanair but the flight itself was fine, even if the seats weren't really comfortable. It was a bit wet in Berlin but at least the main queue for passport control was inside but long. Because of that long wait, my luggage had arrived by the time I got to luggage claim and
lsur was waiting outside, too.We took the S-Bahn in and only had to change once to a tram.
lsur's flat is literally around the corner from the tram stop and has various other amenities (like a baker's where we picked up some cake) nearby, too. Met two of his flatmates, Miran(sp?) and Dean(sp?). It's a huge place with huge rooms (formerly a factory/warehouse building) and quite cool, actually, just a bit unfinished.Got settled in, chatted a bit and then headed out. My first object was shopping so we went to find the record shops I mentioned on Friday, found that another one mentioned in the guide book had disappeared but the final one was still there and boy was it good.
It's in Haus Schwarzenberg, which houses various historic exhibitions, art projects and other stuff, including Neurotitan, a combined book/comic/record/stuff shop with attached gallery.Loads of comics, graphic novels but almost all of them off the beaten track (foreign, indie, local artists etc), stuff/tat and CDs/records, again far off the beaten track with categories like "Breakcore/Hard Stuff", "Guitars Involved", "Strange/Unclassified". The former category obviuosly immediately caught my eye and it contained loads of Ad Noiseam and Hymen but actually very little Ant Zen and Hands, so even in the Noise spectrum is was the really obscure stuff, maybe that was why they didn't have any Tarmvred but they did have Wilt and Cordell Klier... I had to curb my spending as they would only take cash, which was probably a good thing, otherwise I would have spent the rest of the day in there listening to stuff I didn't know. For those interested, I will post my shopping list sometime tomorrow or so when I've got everything together.. The rest of the house is very interesting as well, quite dilapidated but still maintained. There are two very odd mechanical sculptures in the courtyard (photos forthcoming). Very interesting, you could probably spend a day exploring it all, if you wanted to see all the exhibitions and projects.
Then there was more exploring of Berlin (Museumsinsel, Berliner Dom, former GDR Palast der Republik and then towards Alexanderplatz. We were both quite hungry at that point so we thought some typical traditional German fare would be exactly the right thing to get us through the long night ahead and it was. We both had game (
lsur wild boar and I a "Hubertus-Pfanne" with roast deer and boar, both with all the trimmings and a nice dark beer to wash it down with. Well sated and satisfied, we walked around Alexanderplatz for a bit made our way back to the flat to rest a bit and then get changed to go out.to be continued