I went to Berlin for 4 days and squeezed (squoze?) in a lot of stuff. Here are my experimental highlights...
Fliss' 'fread
This is a version of Ariadne's Thread from the Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel. But I didn't know any Ariadnes who'd been to Berlin. I do, however, know a Fliss who has lived there for a bit, so this seemed a good replacement.
The idea is to follow a thread between 10 locations in your travel destination, chosen by Ariadne / Fliss.
We made it to all 10, but not strictly in the right order. But hey, rules were made for breaking!
Here are the 10:
#1 The Gallery of 50 faces
#2 The reggae beach on the east side
#3 The dome of the Reichstag
#4 The East Side Gallery
#5 The DDR Museum
#6 The streets, shops, cafes and bars of East Berlin
#7 Warschauer Strasse U-Bahn Station
#9 The Holocaust Memorial
(I cried)
#10 The hotel that Michael Jackson dangled a baby out of
(conveniently part of the Festival of Lights too!)
Here is the (blurry) map:
Big up to an artist / tour guide called Penny with the Alternative Berlin tours, who showed us a lot of street art, and also told us the story of the man who built his tree house at the foot of the Berlin Wall:
You know all about counter-tourism by now right? Here's some at the Brandenburg Gate:
Spontaneous Postcard Art
As you can tell, it was a bit rainy in Berlin. To escape the rain, we stumbled into the Akademie Der Kunste, where quite by chance there was an exhibition of... 'Mail Art'!
Yes dear reader, it is 'a thing'! (I bet you knew that already, didn't you?)
So overwhelmed was I to learn that I was actually part of a proper art movement, that I had to 'do an art' right then and there. So we sent an arted postcard from inside the gallery to... none other than Fliss, she of the thread!
Other Random Spontaneous Things That You Only See With Your Eyes Open...
And of course... lots of bears:
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