Sunday 7 March 2010

The Berlin Connection, Part III

This weekend Berlin came to Hamburg as fellow-architecture-year-out-student-in-Germany Grant Taylor came to visit. Fri.05.03 to Sun.07.03 went as follows...

FLASH 11CM SNOWFALL FRIDAY EVENING (WTF!!!).
GRANT ARRIVES INTO HAMBURG 2130, MEET AT OTHMARSCHEN, BEERS @ MINE.
NO JAZZCLUB. KULTURHAUS 73, STERNSCHANZE INSTEAD: ELECTRO DOWNSTAIRS, CLASSICS IN MAIN BAR, SOUL/FUNK/REGGAE IN BACK ROOM.
KASIA, NINO, SOLVEJG & CLAIRE JOIN US. BOOGIE SHAKEDOWN.
TISCHFUSSBALL. FALAFEL FROM FALAFEL FACTORY. HOME @ AROUND 0430HRS.
WOKE UP 1115HRS. BRIE ON TOAST & TEA FOR BREAKFAST.
FELL OVER IN SNOW. ALMOST BROKE CAMERA...AGAIN! PHEW...(bloody glad to have it back though...)
WENT UP GLASS LIFT 75M UP ST NIKOLAI KIRCHE.
AWESOME SAVOURY CREPES FROM TI BREIZH.
HAFEN CITY. ELBPHILHARMONIE & PAVILION w. 1:10 ACOUSTIC MODEL OF CONCERT HALL.
SPEICHERSTADTMUSEUM w. EXHIBITION OF HISTORIC PHOTOS OF HAFEN.
TO THE RATHAUS, THEN A STROLL ROUND STERNSCHANZE PEEKING INTO ALTERNATIVE SHOPS.
POTATOES w. FILLING and were FILLING @ KUMPIR.
BACK TO THE HOUSE FOR MUCH-NEEDED NAP.
BEERS BEFORE MEETING NINO ON THE WAY TO KASIA'S. POLISH WODKA. SHEESHA.
DANIEL, ALEX & SEBASTIAN JOIN THE PARTY. TO THE REEPERBAHN @ 0200HRS.
DANIEL & ALEX LEAVE UPON ENTRY TO EGO. DJ T @ EGO, T'UMPIN MINIMAL TECHNO 'TIL 0530HRS. CREAM CRACKERED.
HOME @ 0630HRS. DAYBREAK & BIRDS SINGING. FAT LIE IN. BUT BRIE ON TOAST BEFORE BED. EPIC.
WOKE UP 1300HRS. WATCHED 'THE HURT LOCKER'. SUNDAY AFTERNOON WIND DOWN.
GRANT BACK TO HAUPTBAHNHOF @ 1820HRS.
GUTE LAUNE. GOOD TIMES...

Weekends and work seem to be getting better and busier, respectively - and I is lovin' it.

Grant is evidently lovin' it too.

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