Category Archives: Berlin

It’s a natural fact of being human that we perceive time as linear. The way we see life, things start and end, and progress along a certain path, and we do things that enable us to prepare for other things … Continue reading →

Well! Here we are again, back in Berlin. It’s like I’ve just stepped back in time to last summer; my feelings for the city haven’t changed, nor has the feeling of perpetual excitement I enjoy just wandering around it. Japan, … Continue reading →

I’m sorry, it’s a bit difficult to write when you’ve got company, as it makes you look either antisocial or unbearably pretentious, like those people sitting at the window in coffee shops ostentatiously working on their novels* on their MacBooks. … Continue reading →

I felt like I might want to go out and see a band in some darkened inner-city cellar tonight before the real Berlin Friday night starts at around 2AM, so I had a look at Zitty to see what’s on. … Continue reading →

I have not been writing an awful lot lately; this is partly to do with time constraints and moving all of my accumulated German-coloured nonsense into a new room approximately thirty meters down the road, but it is mostly because … Continue reading →

Wow, I was drunker than you could possibly believe when I wrote that lost post down there, although that’s actually probably obvious from the timestamp and the fact that I come across as a complete twat. I used to have … Continue reading →

I speak four languages. To my monolingual friends, this statement immediately makes me seem like a boastful twat, even though it is actually nothing more than a fact. But I have been thinking about which languages I would count as … Continue reading →

Would you like to know just how much I enjoy Germany? (And the bastards STILL didn’t win the final.) So I was totally interviewed for the Berliner Morgenpost and they’ve gone and printed my ramblings in their newspaper! Technically this … Continue reading →

As a break from the endless German texts I’ve been skimming for dissertation material, I’ve gone on a bit of an Irvine Welsh binge this week. I adore Irvine Welsh (bloody well would, wouldn’t I, painfully middle-class wee lassie that … Continue reading →

I’ve been wanting to write about something in particular for a long while now, which is one of the reasons that last week was somewhat thin on updates. It’s taken about a week to sort out my feelings on the … Continue reading →