If there is one thing I would want to change about Berlin it is the annoyng proliferation of casinos and betting shops. Not that I mind gambling per se – it’s no more offensive or “bad” than a lot of other activities taking place in a modern city – but especially the casinos always have…
Day three in Berlin. Or day four, if you count arrival day. Pictures to follow, once I figure out how to make an actual gallery. Today is rest day, mostly. I’ll probably get n the U-Bahn adn ride around for a bit before the necessary-for-an-old man rest in the afternoon and then meeting some old…
It has been pointed out to me that the title of this blog should properly be Ick bin ein Berlinerd. Fair enough. Here’s my question, though: if Berliners say “ick” for ich, do they also say “dick” for dich?
On April 15th (edit: 14th), I will be flying to Berlin to…well, do even more to lay the groundwork for our move to Berlin. I will stay for a probably very busy nine days, but I hope to be able to meet some of my Berlinarian friends, like bloggers Ian & Ebe whom we met…
The tower mentioned in the previous post does still stand in Berlin, even though my efforts to locate it while I was there were very much in vain. It is know as Der Bierpinsel, which translates to “The Beer Brush” (as to what a beer brush is actually used for, you’ll have to ask someone else –…
There won’t be a real post here today, because I don’t like to make people believe things that aren’t true. That’s right: I’m neither a missionary nor a priest. Nor a big-money funded climate-change “skeptic”.
In the previously mentioned misguided musical The Apple, Mr. Boogalow (aka The Devil) has his headquarters in a short, red tower, which can be seen in a few shots, like the one above. When I visited the location where large parts of the movie were shot, the International Conference Center, I kind of assumed that…
I find it rather surprising that there are so few games focused on spying in east/west Berlin. To me, it seems like potentially fertile ground for both card and board games. Then again, I know from experience how hard it is to simulate espionage, much less counter-espionage, without getting into some really convoluted rules…
Well, Ich Bin Ein Berlinerd is officially one month old, and fifteen or so posts deep. So far, I may not have dug as deep as I had planned when it comes to talking about the city I love, but upon rereading what I’ve written so far, I’m pretty happy with the general tenor of…
A shot from inside the Funkturm; the stairs down from the restaurant to the kitchen and bathrooms. One of my personal favorites from my Berlin photographs.
I’ve been aware of industrial designer Luigi Colani for quite a while (if not necessarily by name), as one of the prime exponents of a very bold futuristic style, together with Syd Mead (who designed things like the car from Blade Runner). Both men have designed things that the world has not yet caught up…
One of the first things I will have to find upon finally moving to Berlin is a Friendly Neighborhood Games Store. Here in Katrineholm we have a great one, especially considering that this is a town with a population of only 30,000. I’ve already found two fantastic comics stores in Mitte and Kreuzberg, but the…
One of the many things I am a nerd about – and one of the future focuses of this blog – is board games. Well, any tabletop games, really – from role playing games to card, dice and board games. So, I decided to check the ultimate resource for board games for games set in…
It seems that Germans are concerned about the influence on their language of American English, and to an extent they should be; few things sound as corny as Germans dropping English words into sentences (because they tend to over-correct some of the sounds). More worrying, though, are words which Germans might think are English words,…
There’s a small (and, frankly, damp) museum under the Charlottenburg Gate, which is only open on Saturdays – conveniently on the same day as the Flohmarkt (flea market) on the Straße des 17. Juni (across which the gate sits). You can also go up instead of down, to ascend a spiral staircase to the top…
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