Despatches from Berlin

[nineveh_uk]

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.

Comments

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Everyone has been to Berlin but me! Helen has just spend the past week there on a research visit, but Edie and I did not accompany her.

We met there in 2004, and lived there in the summers of 2005 and 2006. Berlin is my falling-in-love city.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

(Have just realised I've rather coyly claimed we met in Berlin. This is true in the sense that it's the first place we met in person, but I suppose this is one of the places where I don't need to be coy about admitting that we actually "met" on LJ eighteen months earlier!)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need to arrange a trip! I had such fun even without falling in love, and definitely won't be leaving it another 20+ years.

(Also, congrats on the new job!)