By the way we've been spending 4 hours a day, 4 days a week in German language class. It's in the brown building in the center of the...

We took a long weekend trip to Hamburg: Left Fri AM, returned to Berlin Sun PM. It's a 2-1/2 hour train trip, so we had pretty much 3...

There are many large open spaces and parks in Berlin. One such is Treptower Park, in the former East Berlin along the banks of the river...

[I am extremely frustrated with this blogging app, this is a shitty post, bear with me…] We walked by the central trainstation - it's...

We ventured across the Frankfurter Alee, the major east-west boulevard near our house, and discovered another section of Friedrichshain. ...

By the way, whenever we want to go anywhere outside of Friedrichshain, we take public transport. There's the U-Bahn, underground & fast,...

Lichtenberg is a Kietz in the east. Took the S-Bahn there and walked around. Large concentration of Soviet-era tenement blocks, but...

Today we set out for the Neukölln kietz - known as a diverse area with a lot of immigrants. On the way in we passed something that you...

One of the fascinating things that happened in Berlin in the 20th century is Die Mauer - the communists built a concrete wall through the...

By the way we've happened across some noteworthy stuff along the way: a movie house 'Babylon' with a wurlitzer where we saw Garbo's last...

Today (Saturday 09/07) we ventured out to Tempelhofer Feld, the huge park made from the Tempelhof airport, where the 'air bridge' landed...

Another thing to know about Friedrichshain: It includes a few-block area known in the guides as a "gastro Mile" - a street on which...

Full day two, we ventured farther afield. More Friedrichshain, plus a touch of Prenzlauer Berg. PB is the adjacent Kietz to the...

First full day, Wed Sep 4, we cased Friedrichshein on foot: By the way, the Wohnung has an induction stove. It's amazing. After...

We arrived the evening of Sep 3, checked into the AirBnB Wohnung without any trouble. The location is shown as the blue dot on the map:...

Arrived back in SF on the Burner Express Bus 09/01, dropped off the Burning Man stuff and picked up the Berlin stuff, and headed out...

Burning Man four days and five nights, was epic. "woof" as they say.. Phone/camera off most of the time; here's what sunrise was like...

Leslie left for points east (Sacramento for a couple days, then Brooklyn to see Adrienne), I remained in SF to prep for Burning Man....

With most logistics worked out, we headed out for San Francisco. The plan: together for three days, then Leslie leaves for Sacramento to...

Dog-sat, then stayed with Chris & Lisa in Los Gatos for nigh onto 3 weeks! …during which we (among other things) took a hike at the Fall...