Catching up with Maxie, always enjoyable, meeting in “my” ground-floor Café Nea, always enjoyable :-). The café does not have a website, but I have just discovered that she already has many – very well-deserved – top google reviews.
Then a leisurely walk past Anhalter Bahnhof and across Park am Gleisdreieck. On the edges of the park we saw many examples of what used to be boring, water-guzzling, fertilizer-craving lawns and what they quickly get to look like when left alone and never mowed (also saving the fossil fuels it takes to mow them every five minutes after they have been fed inordinate amounts of water and fertilizer in order to grow …. surreal). The resulting, native, wild-flowers are so pretty – a heartwarming sight.
For once, I did not feel like schlepping my camera along, so the photos are just snaps taken with my phone.
Our goal was Das Kleine Grosz Museum. It is indeed small, but a nice place to visit with a permanent exhibition about the life of one of my favourite caricaturists, George Grosz, and upstairs changing exhibitions with a theme, currently “The Stick Men”.
From the permanent collection, one that I have seen several times, called “The Menace” from 1934. George Grosz had foresight, as well as humour:
From the upstairs temporary exhibit (The Stick Men):
The entrance and the café are in a former petrol tank from the 1950s, very tastefully renovated. The café has outdoor seating in a small but peaceful garden – a true oasis in an unlikely part of town (Bülowstraße).
I highly recommend a visit to this little gem.
On the way back, we spotted a couple of interesting murals in a side street (Bülowstraße is already famous for a large number of huge murals).
Heading back towards Park am Gleisdreieck, Maxie showed me a café which I had heard a lot about but could never figure out exactly where it was: Café Eule, a true paradise in good weather, and definitely one to visit in the not too distant future. (People were seated around the quite large garden area belonging to the café, so I did not take photos).