For as long as I’ve been living in Berlin (more than nine years!) I’ve been writing about Berlin. This scarred, unruly, beautifully complicated and endlessly inspiring city I call home is both my muse and one of my favourite subjects. On this blog and elsewhere, I’ve been lucky to have many opportunities to tell the […]
Category Archives: Shops
Show Me The Honey // The Mitte store that’s the bee’s knees
When I first moved here, the city was an absolute stranger. But now, eight years later, Berlin is as familiar to me as a long-time lover you’ve spent so much time with, you could identify them by the sound of their footsteps or the smell of their B.O. I’ve got my favourite vendor at the […]
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 […]
Polska, Please // Prime Polish posters at the Pigasus shop
I have a thing for Poland. The first (but not the last) time I went there was in the dead of winter, six years ago. From Prague, I boarded an overnight bus destined for Minsk. I, however, would disembark halfway in Łódź, the Polish city whose post-industrial desolation had so charmed David Lynch, he decided […]