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May 10, 2005
a little story about berlin
dear monica,
we miss you! it was good to skype with you last weekend. hope we can catch up again this weekend, if you are back from travelling.
berlin was fun! i liked berlin; definitely a liveable city, although they do have very strange tram stops. basically, the tram rails are in the middle of the road instead of next to the sidewalk. the tram stop however, is still on the sidewalk. so when the tram pulls up, we have to cross the street to get to the tram, and all the cars stop to give way. must be quite frustrating to drive in berlin...
there was this thing called designmai which is similar to the london design festival so we did make it to some of the exhibits. nothing really caught my eye though; there was a lot of clever objects but nothing that made me stand back and think, "wow! brilliant!"
it was so good to see karen again. i miss this comfortableness of being with someone you've befriended for a long time; we were talking non-stop the entire weekend, and sometimes i wonder if you also have this feeling in chicago, when you're meeting new people all the time, that you start to miss the old friends, people who know what you're like when you come undone, instead of new people asking you the history of your life. you know what i mean?
we ate a lot of german food: flammküchen, kaasspatzle, maustachen... yummm... stocked up on hanuta, duplo and paulaner (bavarian beer)... at one bar, we tried tannen zapple which is beer made from pinecones... sounds weird but it tastes good...
you can see highlights of the berlin trip here;. i've been too busy to post these days. plus robert and i haven't been taking a lot of photographs lately; we're on a photography slump, i think.
anyway, have a good week.
lots of love,
yasmina
Posted by Yasmina at May 10, 2005 05:35 PM
