More on Berlin

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Clarissa

May 11, 2012

What I like about Berlin :

1. Sausages.
2. Fashion.
3. The cheap and convenient public transportation system.
4. Outdoor cafes.
5. The mild climate.
6. That residential buildings are painted with beautiful pastel colors.
7. That every corner is photographable.
8. That freshly squeezed juices are available everywhere.
9. Cherry pie doesn’t include the vile gelatinous gunk that is always added to American pies.
10. The huge asparagus with phallic appearance.
11. Thick black tights are in and I’m now justified in my love of them.
12. The Turkish quarter.
13. Unlike in London, I’ve seen no women in burqas.
14. Tiny cars that are super cute.

What I don’t like about Berlin :

1. Books are very expensive.
2. There are people who drag children to beg for money. Social services, hello? Isn’t Germany supposed to have the best child protection laws in the world?
3. Garbage bins are fewer than I’m used to seeing.

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15 responses to “More on Berlin”

sheddingkhawatir

May 11, 2012

Since one of the very few things that can send me into a nationalistic fervor is pie, I have to point out that you are wrong on #9. American cherry pie does not contain gelatinous substances. That type of nasty dessert may exist in American restaurants, but it is not the cherry pie that us pie-loving Americans eat at home.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  Oh, I’m glad to hear that! Now I need to hear that the famous American apple pie also isn’t supposed to have the funk or be smothered in scathe amounts of cinammon. I love cinammon but it’s always so overdone in th US!
  
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  1. sheddingkhawatir
    
    May 11, 2012
    
    No, no, no! Any pies containing that substance must be immediately deported back to their chemical factories of origin! I usually use 1/2 t of cinnamon in a pie (and like it in cherry too), but it can be adjusted to taste. Here is my link to real pie: http://sheddingkhawatir.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-baking-pie-edition.html
    
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ed

May 11, 2012

You probably are not much of a driver, but I would love to top the max speed of a car on the autobahn. That’s something I would do in Germany.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  I heard they had very highspeeds on the Autobahne. Up to 150 mph, right?
  
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  1. Tim
    
    May 11, 2012
    
    You are encouraged to drive 130 km per hour, which are roughly 80 miles per hour. Nobody is stopping you from driving faster, however It can have legal consequences if you are involved in an accident. People have been talking about introducing a speed limit for years now, though.
    
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    1. bloggerclarissa
      
      May 11, 2012
      
      Oh, there is no speed limit? None at all? Well, I guess Germans need some release for their Teutonic emotions. 🙂
      
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Tim

May 11, 2012

About the begging:
Last year city close to my hometown had a police razzia on some kind of gang that were trafficking people, mostly women, into the country and then kept their passes and belongings and send them to beg into the inner city. Just saying.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  What country is your hometown in?
  
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Pika

May 11, 2012

Re: women in burqas, sadly you just have to go to the infamous immigrant part of Berlin, Kreuzberg, and you’ll see many. Berlin is more segregated in this sense that immigrants tend to stick to their areas than London.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  We’ve spent some time in Kreuzberg, although not a lot because it started raining. It’s a Turkish areas, as far as I understand. Do Turkish women wear burqas?
  
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Sister

May 11, 2012

You forgot the best ice cream in the entire world!!

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  Exceptional icecream!
  
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2. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 11, 2012
  
  The Sister and I are so Internet -obsessed that we exchanged these comments while lying next to each other on the bed.
  
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Culture Club

May 11, 2012

The mild climate.

Right now yes, but in the winter it goes to a miserable and damp -2C with just one hour of sunlight a day.

p.s. I too really like Berlin.

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