Saturday 12 September

Arrival. Spent a good part of the afternoon trying to find out what to do about my missing wallet which disappeared on the way from the airport to Bahnhof Zoo. Saw for the first time the less friendly and helpful side of Berlin that everybody talks about.

In the evening a self-indulgent dinner with two friends at Les Solistes by Pierre Gagnaire.

Sunday 13 September

Köpenicker Strasse, Engelbecken, Am Lokdepot, Park am Gleisdreieck

Monday 14 September

Tuesday 15 September

Day 1 of a four-day course in basic photography by Tomàs Correa @Pentaprisma. Highly recommended. Every day we met at a café for about an hour’s theory and then went out to practise and ended up having our photos evaluated.

Afterwards some more walking around Berlin, a.o. to the pomposity that ís Karl-Marx-Allee.

Wednesday 16 September

Day 2 of the photography course – Tempelhofer Feld (one of my favourite places in Berlin).

Later a gallery walk (posted as an event on internations.org) in the Potsdamer Strasse area.

Galleries visited during the evening’s gallery walk: Aurel Scheibler, Esther Schipper, Barbara Wien, Plan B, Nolan Judin, Guido W. Baudach, Blain Southern, Arndt, Tanja Wagner, and Exile.