tour de...
She makes a tour for her friends, for those who want to detox, to make this the place of their art, their friendship, or ...?
It's nothing special - in the sense that these are well-known places, this is a commercial website. Some places she likes, some that she'll never go to because they're too expensive, some that she likes the sound of.
http://berlin.unlike.net/tours/156939
Earlier she walked, only men were out, where there were people at all. Then, closer to Treptower Park, groups of people. A jogger turns and says hello, a small, thin, bouncy, queer man.
Insel der Jugend: finally. A restaurant, dark wood traditional interior. A German swing band. The singer tall in a lace shirt, HIGH heels, white-blond hair. The art student and she sit at the bar. Children dance. An old mixed-sex couple foxtrots (?)... something elegant anyway...
Then they walk. Along the abandoned amusement park, where the art student came as a child. On an on. They ask for directions. They find the Soviet war memorial. The art student pees behind a tree. They enter the memorial. She says/thinks, "It's amazing that this still exists, that it wasn't just taken down like all the statues (many)." (Renamed, like the streets). The art student says, "But could it not just have been built anyway...?"
No, it could not. No cold war West German government would have built a several 1000 square meter memorial to Soviet heroism.
There are tulips on the plaque that says, "The homeland will not forget its heroes."
The memorial is also an antifascist memorial and, Wikipedia says, contains the graves of 5000 soldiers.
She is reexperiencing Berlin's post-post-socialist ... charm (?).
The art student is almost half her age. She is fantastic. Her hair stands up. She has escaped the Christmas feast to go on this walk. She is concerned about her work, why she's stuck. They talk. About how to work, how early to get up. About art. And travel. The art student likes to travel. She uses it to jolt herself out of impasses.
It's nothing special - in the sense that these are well-known places, this is a commercial website. Some places she likes, some that she'll never go to because they're too expensive, some that she likes the sound of.
http://berlin.unlike.net/tours/156939
Earlier she walked, only men were out, where there were people at all. Then, closer to Treptower Park, groups of people. A jogger turns and says hello, a small, thin, bouncy, queer man.
Insel der Jugend: finally. A restaurant, dark wood traditional interior. A German swing band. The singer tall in a lace shirt, HIGH heels, white-blond hair. The art student and she sit at the bar. Children dance. An old mixed-sex couple foxtrots (?)... something elegant anyway...
Then they walk. Along the abandoned amusement park, where the art student came as a child. On an on. They ask for directions. They find the Soviet war memorial. The art student pees behind a tree. They enter the memorial. She says/thinks, "It's amazing that this still exists, that it wasn't just taken down like all the statues (many)." (Renamed, like the streets). The art student says, "But could it not just have been built anyway...?"
No, it could not. No cold war West German government would have built a several 1000 square meter memorial to Soviet heroism.
There are tulips on the plaque that says, "The homeland will not forget its heroes."
The memorial is also an antifascist memorial and, Wikipedia says, contains the graves of 5000 soldiers.
She is reexperiencing Berlin's post-post-socialist ... charm (?).
The art student is almost half her age. She is fantastic. Her hair stands up. She has escaped the Christmas feast to go on this walk. She is concerned about her work, why she's stuck. They talk. About how to work, how early to get up. About art. And travel. The art student likes to travel. She uses it to jolt herself out of impasses.