Berlin: In the Mitte of the World

Drobný vzkaz pro příchozí z módního pekla (kvůli vznikajícím nejasnostem - následující body nejsou myšleny uraženě, obranně ani útočně, pro jistotu jsem to lehce přeformulovala):

1) Mám poměrně krátké vlasy (ale snažím se to bohužel pro ty, kteří hledají inspiraci, maskovat, než dorostou do upravitelné délky)

2) Na druhou stranu nosím brýle (pokud možno tedy neveřejně, alespoň do doby, než najdu hezké obroučky)

3) Moje sukně jsou skutečně délkou občas na hraně únosnosti, za což pochopitelně mohou spořiví návrháři, protože na sukni ke kolenům se spotřebuje víc materiálu než na sukni pod zadek. Pokud vás to uklidní, snažím se snížit počet mikrosukní a naopak najít co nejvíc sukní cudné délky, takže vás snad nebudu pohoršovat dlouho. :) (Čímž nechci říct "proboha jak o mně někdo mohl říct, že nosím moc krátké sukně, fňuk" nýbrž "sama si uvědomuji, že vystavovat na odiv tolik kůže asi už není to pravé ořechové a postupně se zbavuji kratičkých sukní a snažím se si kupovat sukně méně vyzývavé". Takže de facto to znamená, že se zmíněnou kritikou krátkých sukní souhlasím a postupně na tom pracuji.)

Anyway, as a hopefully soon-to-be-graduate student, I’m really busy right now and sadly, I do have to stop writing bilingual posts for now. And since most of my readers are foreigners (as in, not Czechs and Slovaks), the language that has to go is Czech, I’m really sorry. For now, writing everything twice is really too much hassle, so I hope my Czech and Slovak readers can understand. I feel obliged to mention that I’m an ESL speaker and my English is full of mistakes, awkward use of idioms etc., but if you want to read beautiful English, there’s Shakespeare.

Also, I’m really sorry I’m behind on checking the blogs I follow, I’m really gonna read them (and comment), but you guys update way too fast for my current schedule! XD

Being done with the explanations, here is the first part of my 6^th or 7^th Berlin trip! In this post, I’ll show you pictures of interesting places around Berlin-Mitte, while in the next two, I’ll write about the galleries I visited.

The vicinity of Oranienburger Strasse

I told you I’d been pretending not to have short hair and I was wearing glasses! Il faisait un froid du canard, and German men of all nationalities are, ehm, very friendly, so I opted for pants. Not that it helped much

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)

The vicinity of Oranienburger Strasse

Galeries Lafayette

Honoré Daumier

Again, I’m embarrassed to admit I had no idea who this gentleman was. So I suggest you see wiki for yourself, since all I could do would be paraphrasing what it says.

Quartier 206

Quartier 207

Berliner Fernsehturm (TV Tower)

Various buildings around Potsdamer Platz

(and a bear)

Fiona Bennett’ Headwear

Potsdamer Strasse 83 (or something like that)

I stumbled upon her shop by accident while looking for a gallery that apparently didn’t exist. It was closed, which had the disadvantage that I couldn’t get depressed by trying on the hats and then realizing they were way over my budget, and the advantage that I could take as many photos as I pleased without anyone cutting my head off and using it as a hat-display. I won’t pretend I knew who she was before I asked uncle google - I’d never heard about Mrs. Bennett before. Anyway, she’s a pretty famous avant-garde hat designer, fashion expert and trend setter.

  

Various buildings around Potsdamer Platz

The eldest traffic light!

Trabi safari

Various buildings around Potsdamer Platz

Movie and TV Museum

An interesting place for all old German movie fans, it’s quite well done and interesting.

Glowing benches in front of the Arkaden shopping center

Yours truly

Vita