The exhaustion continues...

[weizenwind]

But that's not so much jet lag and lack of sleep anymore as the incredible amount of ground I'm regularly covering by foot these days. Today I walked all over Prenzlauerberg, which is one of the former East German neighborhoods. I like it a lot--plenty of neat buildings, fun shops, and of course history. I learned today what a Brettchen is: a small

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[weizenwind]

Yep, that was the commie side. The differences are ever smaller. There are definitely still architectural differences, and the people who choose now to live in eastern parts are...in general maybe a little edgier? But that's a huge generalization. The walk/don't walk signals in the eastern neighborhoods are cuter than the capitalist ones; ironically, the capitalists have now exploited this to an almost ludicrous degree--there are entire stores dedicated to selling Ampelmännchen (walk-signal man) stuff. Shirts, bags, t-shirts, pencils, bottle openers, doormats, mugs, erasers, earrings, etc.