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nineveh_uk) wrote2016-08-28 09:50 am
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Despatches from Berlin
I am in Berlin. It is very hot. It is so hot that today I am joining the ranks of people who wear shorts in a city. Since this appears to be 50% of people I've been seeing, I shouldn't feel too conspicuous in my sartorial crime, and it is a small price to pay for hot weather.
Berlin is great. I can't remember much, and absolutely nothing has looked as I remember, which isn't surprising on any front since I was last here in 1993. There is far more history that is reasonable for one place, I knew I was only going to scratch the surface, but now I feel I won't even so much scratch as gently tickle, but there are worse fates than to have to come back. My feet hate me.
Tanz der Vampire was amazing. My decision to base a holiday around seeing a cheesy musical is one million percent vindicated. I'm going again tonight. I even stage-doored The shame! The shame!, which is probably the most nerdish thing I have ever done in my entire life. I have also found several prospective entrants to the Galactic Cape-Twirling Championships. So far the hot favourite is the dancer who twirled his cape while simultaneously twirling a woman above his head, but there were also strong entries in the dramatic and moody categories.
Naturally the fic I bought to write remains entirely unwritten, as indeed does my diary. Never mind, no doubt I will catch up during tomorrow's 8 1/2 hour train journey.
Berlin is great. I can't remember much, and absolutely nothing has looked as I remember, which isn't surprising on any front since I was last here in 1993. There is far more history that is reasonable for one place, I knew I was only going to scratch the surface, but now I feel I won't even so much scratch as gently tickle, but there are worse fates than to have to come back. My feet hate me.
Tanz der Vampire was amazing. My decision to base a holiday around seeing a cheesy musical is one million percent vindicated. I'm going again tonight. I even stage-doored The shame! The shame!, which is probably the most nerdish thing I have ever done in my entire life. I have also found several prospective entrants to the Galactic Cape-Twirling Championships. So far the hot favourite is the dancer who twirled his cape while simultaneously twirling a woman above his head, but there were also strong entries in the dramatic and moody categories.
Naturally the fic I bought to write remains entirely unwritten, as indeed does my diary. Never mind, no doubt I will catch up during tomorrow's 8 1/2 hour train journey.
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PS. There is no shame.
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Any shame I have is not sufficient to prevent my planning to find the stage door for Wednesday's next performance (I can't tonight as I have an 8:30am train, and also I have the autographs I wanted anyway :-) )
ETA: There was cape fail! Dancing vampire and dancing Sarah managed to have a moment of his cape and her ?wig getting tangled together. They handled the untangling pretty smoothly, though.
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Or there's Herbert: You can get this vampire out of my cape anytime, darling.
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*giggles at the thought of Galactic Cape-Twirling Championships*
*goes looking for a cape*
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Enjoy your trip to Berlin (and beyond), I had a fantastic time.
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Enjoy the rest of your trip.
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One of the highlights of my high school years remains when our headmaster did in his Achilles tendon and had to wear shorts for half a term because he was in plaster. It was really not his image...
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We met there in 2004, and lived there in the summers of 2005 and 2006. Berlin is my falling-in-love city.
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(Also, congrats on the new job!)