To tell the truth, Berlin and I have been going through a rough patch as of late. It’s not that I’ve fallen completely out of love with the city, but any affection is currently smothered under a deep heap of winter-induced misery. Berlin is really, really hard to love in the winter. As if the […]
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Happy Birthday To Me // My kind-of-perfect Berlin day
I had a birthday recently. And while I’m not a fan of making a big deal out of the day, I do have two simple rules for the occasion: to do something nice for myself, however small, and to buy myself a present — however small. As luck would have it, this year my birthday […]
Cuckoo for Cookies // Raiding a cookie factory in Tempelhof
If you’ve ever spent any time on the southern end of Tempelhof Park, you may have found yourself suddenly racked by an unexplainable craving for cookies. That’s because if the wind is just right, it carries over the vanilla-sweet scent of a cookie factory located on the other side of the Ringbahn. I figured this […]
Yummy Yume // Neukölln’s new Japanese dumpling bar
In a rare moment of megalomania, I recently crowned myself on Instagram as Berlin’s biggest dumpling fanatic. Sylee of Berlin Reified kindly humoured me and retorted by calling me “the city’s official Queen of Dumplings.” The occasion: I’d just published my second feature-length dumpling article in Zitty magazine. The first, back in January, was about […]