Mitte at Night

I think that we have one of the prettiest views in Berlin. This is out our bedroom window. It is also ridiculously good weather here again, even in mid-November, but I'm not going to complain. Yesterday the Cafe am Lietzensee was open and Rob and the kids all went to drink apfelschorle and hang out. The cafe is normally only open until Halloween, but who could resist a day like yesterday?
After I went to class and Rob went to the doctor's office (Maddie has swimmer's ear), we met up at Hackescher Markt and had a great paella at this spanish place. Rob thinks we need a tent like this on our patio. I was fond of the dry ice in the fountain.
We walked around Mitte and down Oranienburger strasse. On the right is a neon palm tree, in the middle is the TV tower (Fernsehnturm), and on the left you might be able to make out the golden top of the New Synagogue. This is a hip street with lots of restaurants and clubs and a place called Tacheles. This was once a tony store which had fallen into disrepair. When developers finally got around to it to knock it down, a militant artists colony had moved in and refused to budge. They live mostly in campers out in the back and project movies onto a wall behind them, knock the heads off the statues and replace them with horse heads, etc. It is sort of what would happen if the green marble I. Magnin building on Broadway in Oakland had been taken over by Sid from Toy Story. I think it says a lot about Berlin that 1. it's permitted and 2. this place is listed on maps.
Here we are on the S-bahn. Rob's latest bid is to take pictures of the things we do every day. We ride the S-bahn every day and now you know what it looks like inside. I was more fond of the busses in Vienna, but I concede that in Berlin, the S-bahn is the way to go. It gets me across town in 15 minutes where the bus takes nearly an hour.

And here is your quiz for the day. This is a different S-bahn interior with various Berlin landmarks in silhouette. How many of them can you recognize? How many have you been to?

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