Back in 2016, and as far as I remember also most of 2017, when I had just moved to Berlin, I used to go out to visit other places because I wanted to go THERE. How I long for those days when I was able to choose to stay at home and just BE, and chill, and use my balcony.

The need to get out of the house every weekday for so many years is really starting to catch up with me, and I am so tired. Now I often struggle to think of places to go because I need to get away from HERE and the neighbours from hell (the one with the ridiculous name of “Victoria zu Berlin”).

I doubt those good old days will come back. I am quite sure they will keep thinking of ways to make life miserable for the entire area, especially every summer.

Anyway, though I knew it would start to rain sooner or later, I ventured out to spend a little bit of time around Alt-Lübars, specifically an extremely peaceful placed by Köppschensee.

Bonus tip: There is no sign of any cafés in Alt-Lübars, and decent coffee is even hard to come by in the vicinity of S-Bahn station Waidmanshof, but now there is a new, modern café – “Ma Maison” just around the corner from the last bus stop before the stop at the station, when you come from Alt-Lübars on bus 222. A nice selection of fresh food and drink, but uncomfortable seating and ear-splittingly loud music. Nowadays you can’t have everything.

Photos to come.