Norway is a district of Berlin

First and (probably) last entry in NeudeutschEnglish as a special service for the Norwegians :)

Just arrived in Freiburg – after some really great days in Berlin, where some really cool persons from Norway was forced to spend time with me. Sorry for that :P Berlin is more or less my favourite place to stay for vacations, it is just simple to forgot everything within a really short time period – I for one chose the Holzhammermethode for this (LEO says steamroller tactics but this sounds strange in my ears…) and was simply completely drunken for two days, with long discussions about politics (especially the relations between the EU and Norway), music distribution and publishing, grass root activism with the help of open web applications, …

After successfully finishing the project „get Renke out of the daily grind“ the fun really started – and as a picture says more than 1000 words I just show some (more or less chronological).

15 minutes of fame – Warhol was right :)
Very funny, we walked on monday around the Reichstags building and a reporter of DPA asked me about the election in Hessen – and at this point I didn’t even know the results…

We were at a bar in Oranienstraße (I forgot the name…) and Mari and Björna* [Correction: The name is spelled „Bjà¸rnar“ (sorry and thanks to Bjà¸rnar)] started the who-looks-weirder-contest. I’m not sure if Björna or Mari won…

In the evening we drunked a little bit (oh shit, people from Norway are too hard for my liver…) and just stay in the flat – here you see my host Tabea, for some reason she is not Norwegian and seems to desperate about her computer addicted boyfriend.

I tried hard to drink as much alcoholic stuff as the Norwegians and didn’t failed :) On the right side you see Jürgen (or maybe Jorgen, see * for Details).

Anders and Julia, the second international German-Norwegian couple at the flat party. This kind of relationship seems to be working for many persons.

I have absolutely no idea where, when and why this picture was taken. Don’t aks me, ask Mari and/or Jürgen.

Wednesday morning**, Görlitzer Park, excellent poster motive. Great art, looks a little bit like the pictures of New York in the 1930s.

After breakfeast at Sofia we split up – Tabea had to go to work, Björna drove to Prenzlauer Allee for jamming and Mari and I started our expedition to the abandoned theme park. But she chose definitively the wrong guide – lost in Berlin so to speak…

Finally we reached the Treptower Park – a really strange location, outside of the Ringbahn but clearly a part of the Berlin city. And it was quite and not comparable to Kreuzberg, only 10 minutes away. Kind of irreal, with all the fog and only a few joggers around.

Though this park feels like in the middle of nowhere we were still in Germany – and waste seperation is an Important Issue here…

Whut? Industry? In Berlin? Must be a joke.

After about 30 minutes of walking in the park the first signs of the theme park – an extremly pimped Trabant…

After we commited the unlawful entry (what could be the worst outcome of this?) we walked through some rather boring technical buildings of the former theme park and entered some kind of ghost town. Unfortunately all doors were shut, so we wasn’t able to picture the inside :(

The thing creaked in the wind – maybe because of a not performed inspection?

This map will be used for the planning of our next trip to this place – with better weather, more time and beer. No idea how we will organize it – but it will happen. Sometime.

Wanna take a ride? No queue :)

Mari had not so much fun in the roller coaster,

but I enjoyed it!

It was too dark to visit the park further, so we just walked to one of the former exits and climbed over the fence – straight to the next stop of the S-Bahn. The ticket machines are nasty – I used a 50 Euro note to pay for the ride and now my wallet is full with 2 Euro coins…

I will be back (but only with around 15 °C more….)

*) Or Bjorna? Or Bjà¸rna? Or BjΩrna? Or BjФrna? Or BjÑ„rna? Or BjΩrna? Or Bjâ—˜rna? Or should it be Bjθrna? Don’t ask me – but Norwegian is _really_ funny :)
**) 13:30