According to these wretched scales that you can find in Möckernbrücke (U6) I am too fat. I want to believe they follow post-war standards, but I guess that is not even true and I have had too many döner. It was worth it, in any case…

I think it is a gret idea that the plastic bags are not given for free in German shops. In my country, if you buy three items in a shop the average number of plastic bags that you get is 6. No kidding. We could probably line up all the bags I have got in my life until now and we could go to the moon, cover it in plastic bags, come back to Earth and give every human being a plastic bag in case they go to Germany and need some of them. Why do the Spanish people love them as much as the Germans hate them will remain a mystery forever…

I cannot believe the snow is not more to be seen in such a short period of time. After all I will miss the slippery morning sensation and the contusions derived from falling in painfully shameful ways.

These swans are to be seen in the Landwehrkanal if you go to buy vegetables, bread, honey or funny underwear to the  Turkish Market that takes place in Maybachufer Strasse every Tuesday and Friday.

In Volkspark Rehberge (U6) you can see some wild boars. You can smell them from further away as well.

There are other animals in this park, all of them are caged so they do not eat the unlikely tourists/get eaten by the unlikely tourists.

It feels good to enter the U-Bahn only to find (at last!) advertising that actually gives you good advice…

By the way… have you ever seen all those posters in the U-Bahn asking for people who is willing to try medicaments for pharmaceutical companies? How legal is that? How much do they pay? Where do they bury the corpses?

Perhaps the S-Bahn was faster, more punctual and more reliable some months ago (that’s what the locals say to everyone who wants to hear it!) but I am still amazed by how accurate the official webpage is:

www.bvg.de

It tells you when, how and almost why you can go from one place to another.

Use it and love it, but hate the S-bahn budget cuts as a local!

The people of Germany have really good ideas sometimes like giving you part of your money back if you recycle bottles, bicycle lanes everywhere and Biergärten. Some of their ideas are just not so cool, such as holidays in Benidorm, really counting some bread with butter + any random ingredient as a real meal  and the declination of the adjective. I mean, they do it that way so no foreigner can say any sentence that does not contain at least three mistakes, don’t they?

Choose a word. Choose an adjective to describe that word. Choose an ending for the adjective. By the way, never mind thinking too hard, as 90% of the time whatever you chose will be the wrong ending. My solution of never using adjectives is not very useful if you want to communicate with other human beings, so we are doomed to study the declination of the adjective again and again so our frustration grows like hell. Still, everybody will understand our free style use of the adjective, so talk with any stranger as if there were no dative…