Barely scraping it together through the week, I made it onto a midnight plane from Changi to Frankfurt. My first experience in Germany, at 7am on Saturday morning (doing my best human imitation of working at a table waiting for my connecting flight) was an elderly woman photographing me. I must have looked (or smelt) exotic.
Berlin struck me first as a beautiful, sprawling green city, low rise but developed. Made it to my home base, Q Hotel, then met up with Mogan and Annika for a slow wander along a river on the city's east side. After my first beer and weiner schnitzel we joined a roaming band of 24 jammers, dancing to quality beats while they directed traffic around them in the 6 o'clock sun.
Adjacent to the Kaiser's army bakery, we had dinner at a massive warehouse space on a river in industrial East Berlin. Christian from Tiger Europe joined us for a drink and took us to Sage Club after that, where we made our initial sortie into the Berlin club scene. Though semi-delirious from exhaustion, I sucked it in and had a couple of beers while the dance floor filled up. Nice warm sound and fat beats.
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