Berlin - Day 11
Finally at the last day of the trip, I can’t say much about this one having been spent entirely by travel. I will say Lufthanse has surprisingly good food in my opinion. It’s taken me a month to do these recaps—almost entirely just for myself to remember everything and try putting some thoughts I had during everything into writing, but I’m neglecting the now on this blog and I’m turning towards it more-so.
Berlin - Day 10
By now I feel like we were starting to get a hang of things, of course this always happens right as the trip is coming to an end, but this day was easily one of the most comfortable and pleasantly nice. I walked across the street from our place and picked up breakfast from Bäckerei 2000, honestly a pretty run-down unassuming place but to me, something I miss so much from Berlin. The corner store/bakery combo is so good. I love that I can pick up an espresso, börek, chips, and cigarettes in one stop for cheap.
We had tattoos from @kirschatattoo in Schillerkiez scheduled for today which took up most of the day. Super nice and welcoming studio, I read a good chunk of Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition while I was getting mine. It’s written in a very digestible way, short journal entry type writing on each page that slowly builds this inwards looking philosophy of being anti-social today.
Recommended by Marta, we walked over to Caligari for maybe the best meal of the trip. A really cute Italian place with a seasonal and short menu, Emily got mussel pasta and I got the beef pasta.
Berlin - Day 9
Not many photos from this day either but it ended up being one of my favorites. We went to the morning part of Creamcake–an auditory/performance/poetry/sensory experience event at Liquidrom. Floating around in this womb-like cave was the sort of relaxing thing we needed by then. We got curry wurst for lunch and I was thoroughly embarrassed trying to order from the hard-ass man running the stand. We had to return the bikes this day which took up a good chunk of time but we stopped at a great pizza spot for dinner before calling it pretty early that night.