BERLIN WEDDING 2024

After months of online chats, Jeffrey and I managed to meet in person at a gig in Berlin where Chris Hughes was playing for The Walking Corpses.  We fought off the rain and small floods to get there but were warmly welcomed into the fold. A wild night of live music and meet and greets with fellow musicians and artists frothing at the mouth to talk all things creative.  We stumbled out of there after midnight and found ourselves locked out of the U-Bahn.  There was another guy locked out, who looked like he was camping there for the night, I pitied him having to rough it and wake carrying a hangover.  We got a taxi ; 50€ ($100AUD) later, I found myself passed out close to sunrise on the spare bed of the Europa Hotel.  I had been staying in Wedding, with avantgardian, Adrian (Alien Quartett).  Wedding become the hub where future meetings and indepth, converations took place, at our newly sanctified, Asia Deli.   A place where politics, art and music were strewn throughout dinner as wine flowed as if we were punters back home at the Melbourne Cup.  We stayed until all hours of the night, the last people to be kicked out.  Eating out in Berlin was a lot cheaper than eating at home in Finland; in fact, everything was at least three times cheaper than Finland. We went to the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Neues Museum) to check out The Bust of Nefertiti (1340 BC) and it was all free entry!. If you are in Berlin and happen to be there on the first Sunday of the month all these incredible places are free. It was a most splendid day filled with history as musical ideas seeped into alcoholic, snowcones whilst viewing  boats drifting down   The Spree.