Walking in the city of Berlin throughout the whole day to overcome your deepest pains in search for relief – pain for the body, not for your soul or mind – was our amazement in the daylight. The next set of marching added another five kilometers to this tourists’ road of perdition. In total the Berlin trip consumed 85 Euros and paid off some entertainment, delicious food, painful feet, and loving memories for the two of us. Now it’s closing in to 7pm and we’re expecting to drink a couple of cocktails in the „Elevenâ€, a small cocktail bar at the Leipziger Platz next to the Potsdamer Platz. Time for Happy Hour… the barkeeper nicknamed „Tomson†(for Thomas) offers a good service so far and the beer we’ve ordered earlier is already half empty: The Duckstein which is a dark brown Pilsener is for myself and the Köpi which stands for König’s Pilsener is a herb Pilsener beer for Katharina.
Within a few minutes, we will break off the beers and concentrate on a Flying Cangaroo and a French Colada with the chill-out music running through our ears to serve us some vibes and pleasure. Relaxation during the holidays is the key to unlock our secrecy…
Eleven Café Bar Diner
Leipziger Platz 11
10117 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 – 66 64 97 11
http://www.eleven-bar.de
Cocktails: ++
Price-Service: ++
Ambience: ++
Colorful cocktails for the late hours sum up the daylight’s bistro serving of tasteful food and snacks. As Tomson explained to me, they might introduce a WLAN Hotspot to make this bistro-café more attractive during the day. I consider this as a huge bonus to attract tourists like ourselves.
French Colada
Frecher würziger Cognac schimmert durch den Rum und die Sahne.
Flying Cangaroo
Sahning frischer Vodka im Hauch von Orangensaft.
Long Island Ice Tea
Tompson’s spezieller Mix – sehr empfehlenswert durch wenig Zusatz von Cola, dafür aber reich im Geschmack von Rum und Limetten.
No Prime Minister
Medien, PolitikThis is an unbelievable punishment for the governmental party SPD (Social Democratic Party) in Germany: The elections to the Prime Minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein were held four times without finding a winner. It depends only on one vote as 35 of 69 total votes are necessary to win this race but the SPD got only 34 votes of their 35 possible votes of the current coalitions of the Grüne (Green) and SSW (South Schleswig Group). The tv news magazines report there won’t be a new election but a special case election to find a government for the state. The latest Prime Minister, Heide Simonis, won’t take another fifth election routine since she’s going to step back from her duties. This day is one of the most discomforting moments for the SPD party as the coalition of CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and FDP (Free Democratic Party) is celebrating the events – it will lead to a loss of SPD votes in the Bundesrat, the second instance for legislative issues in Germany after the Bundestag. Critics doubt the government will have an easy time in the current legislature period…
The second week in Berlin
LebenI’m alive and my feet don’t hurt anymore. Yesterday, Kat and myself visited the Park Sanssouci in Potsdam. We drove there by car since we weren’t going to pay again for a supreme ticket for the tram and metro services. The weather was to our surprise quite wonderful, but as we managed to visit the museum in the New Palais, the interior was absolutely frozen cold – for the reason of preserving the architecture and paintings. Apparently, the conservation process is imperative for the operators of the park. But today we went for some shopping back to Kurfürstendamm in the west and the Friedrichstrasse in the east of Berlin. Some pictures taken of Checkpoint Charlie and some other photos containing pictures of the New Palais, Castle Sanssouci, the Chinese Tea House and the Orangerie will follow soon.
Translation
BlogkulturI believe I might find some time to continue the translation of the Blogspirit software’s language package into the German language later this evening. I’m eager to compile the whole PoEdit input to finish my promises. Unfortunately, the exams for university stroke me like a serious blast, and now the trip to Berlin costs way too much time to find small portions of a cleared mind… ;)
Berlin Fotos
LebenI managed to upload a few pictures of our trip to Berlin. You can review them at the Shots’n’Pics galery or directly by clicking the sample images… enjoy ;)
Weblogs powered by Germany’s T-Online
BlogkulturThe German telecommunication company T-Online, a subsiduary branch of the T-Com (Telecom) company, launches its own Weblog portal with a monthly subscription fee of 3,99 Euros paid via the telephone bill. The software is based on Typepad and it is powered by Six Apart. Personally, I would not use this tool as they require payment from the first use of the software package. I believe that a minimal free-to-use functionality such as Blogspirit’s offer is a must-do for any bloghoster company. T-Online is just ripping off the users in my eyes…
Toxic Alcohol
LebenBerlin and becoming drunk – is this our newest habit? I’m going to call this some „Governmental Cityholâ€: Manifold skylines and magnified liquid is the essence for the chilled life without the borders of our solemnly saddening reality. No borders, no limits but pure refreshing freedom of the mind.
Evening Hours
LebenWalking in the city of Berlin throughout the whole day to overcome your deepest pains in search for relief – pain for the body, not for your soul or mind – was our amazement in the daylight. The next set of marching added another five kilometers to this tourists’ road of perdition. In total the Berlin trip consumed 85 Euros and paid off some entertainment, delicious food, painful feet, and loving memories for the two of us. Now it’s closing in to 7pm and we’re expecting to drink a couple of cocktails in the „Elevenâ€, a small cocktail bar at the Leipziger Platz next to the Potsdamer Platz. Time for Happy Hour… the barkeeper nicknamed „Tomson†(for Thomas) offers a good service so far and the beer we’ve ordered earlier is already half empty: The Duckstein which is a dark brown Pilsener is for myself and the Köpi which stands for König’s Pilsener is a herb Pilsener beer for Katharina.
Within a few minutes, we will break off the beers and concentrate on a Flying Cangaroo and a French Colada with the chill-out music running through our ears to serve us some vibes and pleasure. Relaxation during the holidays is the key to unlock our secrecy…
Eleven Café Bar Diner
Leipziger Platz 11
10117 Berlin
+49 (0) 30 – 66 64 97 11
http://www.eleven-bar.de
Cocktails: ++
Price-Service: ++
Ambience: ++
Colorful cocktails for the late hours sum up the daylight’s bistro serving of tasteful food and snacks. As Tomson explained to me, they might introduce a WLAN Hotspot to make this bistro-café more attractive during the day. I consider this as a huge bonus to attract tourists like ourselves.
French Colada
Frecher würziger Cognac schimmert durch den Rum und die Sahne.
Flying Cangaroo
Sahning frischer Vodka im Hauch von Orangensaft.
Long Island Ice Tea
Tompson’s spezieller Mix – sehr empfehlenswert durch wenig Zusatz von Cola, dafür aber reich im Geschmack von Rum und Limetten.
Berlin – Day 3
LebenThe picture was made yesterday at the AOL internet terminal. Fortunately, the sun was shining the whole day and it was quite relaxing to walk all over the Ku’Damm, but as I had the most splendid idea to cross the Street of the 17th July from the Siegessäule to the Brandenburger Tor, we had a march for about 12 kilometers. This stripped my feet off.
Today, both of us are taking a short time-out in the easy-internet-café at the Rathausplatz. After having visited the Hackesche Höfe and the Sony Center at Potzdamer Platz, we really needed a moment for some digital lifestyle. The Filmmuseum at the Sony Center showed some interesting insights into the beginnings of filmmaking and the Sony Style shop had some magnificent gadgets for our daily routines: MP3 players, Laptops, Homecinemas, CDs and much more. We plan to move across the place to the large TV Tower of Berlin and perhaps we’ll get lucky if the snow will start melting and the rain will draw off. Until then – much more to follow ;)
Berlin from an AOL Access Point
LebenCurrently I’m sitting in the Esprit Store at Kurfürstendamm and I’m using a free internet access point from AOL. Nice to have. I made quite many photos while we visited the governmental areas of Berlin yesterday. The city looks great and fortunately the sun is shining quite a lot today. Kat’s uncle doesn’t have internet in his house yet since its a newly built home. I’m looking forward to put more info online once I find time to visit an internet cafe…
Roadtrip
LebenTagged between several cars and trucks, we’re managing a short distance on the Bundesstrasse 404 between the Autobahn A21 and A24. From there we will reach Berlin. So far we’ve been wasting our fuel for the last 170 kilometers. It’s snowing a lot, and I’ve caught myself commenting on Kat’s driving. According to her it’s the first time for a long time she’s been driving on the speedways, and concerning myself I expect her driving to become better and better each time she’s training on the Autobahn. But the snow makes me worry. I hope the white dirt won’t cover the roads too much or we’ll end up being stranded in nowhere.