Spent the first day of 2021 the same way I spent most of 2020: walking around Berlin looking at stuff

Today’s discovery: you can just walk right into the abandoned half of the Berlin-Schönholz station

This is my third winter in Berlin and today is the first time I’ve seen snow on the ground

This thread is now just four random things I saw in Berlin every day (today: rainbows and antifa from a walk around Ernst-Thälmann-Park)

Today’s update: early morning Niederschönhausen ride to my favorite birch grove and second favorite Soviet memorial in Berlin

First proper bike ride of the year today, out to Blankenfelde

Day 7: afternoon hike around Alexanderplatz and Kollwitzkiez

This morning’s Berlin sightseeing was pretty boring, definitely a good excuse to mute this thread if somehow you haven’t already

Found a poem on a fence (“WALK THROUGH THIS TOWN AT A GRAY HOUR”)

Day 10: Wedding

Humboldthain

Felt like a good day for a ride out to Treptower Park

Day 14: Berlin-Pankow to Pankow-Heinersdorf

From my favorite corner of the Panke this morning

Quoting Tucholsky on a wall overlooking a military cemetery is the most Berlin thing and I love it

I really want to know the story of this school bus I saw today in Weißensee

Everyone: you can be either a pirate-themed bike shop or a tropical-fish-themed bike shop, you can’t do both

This Berlin bike shop: no

I’ve never been inside the Stadtbad Oderberger but I love the exterior:

cool neon sign
giant mural with a car getting stomped
some mermaids giving a bear a bath

Visited Viktoriapark for the first time ever today and the highlight was probably saucy Hercules on the left here because the waterfall is just a depressing muddy mess right now

Florastraße, Soldiner Kiez

Berlin actually had a sunrise this morning! With sunlight! And then immediately shifted back into rainy grey hellscape of course

Spree

Gleimtunnel

As an irony-poisoned American I often find Berlin outrage hard to parse, like I have no idea whether this “Long live Edeka” I saw this morning is a joke or not

Holzmarkt and the bank of the river across from Holzmarkt is more like Austin than anywhere in the world I’ve ever been, maybe even including Austin

Today I found the most Berlin graffiti pairing (“KILL NAZIS” / “WASH HANDS”) and also the very worst statue in Berlin

This morning: Gethsemanekirche and Helmholtzplatz (also Pizza-Hütte)

Today: snow, sunshine, Wet Triangle

Wrapping this project up today. I know it’s probably been annoying, but it also forced me to go outside and look at things every day for a whole month in the middle of this godawful Berlin winter, so