Monday, Monday – not quite so good to us today. We were (sort of) expecting the weather but it was colder, wetter and windier than the forecast intimated. We returned to the cafe we had enjoyed yesterday morning for breakfast during which we hatched a sort of plan. We decided to continue with the idea of going to the East Side Gallery. NO normal gallery this one – it is actually remnants of the wall out near Ostbahnhof with artwork. Al fresco of course and, by then the weather had really got going.
Incidentally we did see (hear & smell) a parade of about 6 Trabis yesterday – all carefully restored to a level they probably didn’t have when new!
Though the weather looks fairly benign in the wall art photos it was actually brutal. So we trotted back to Ostbahnhof and invoked Plan B – which was a return visit to my new current favourite book & record shop – Dussmanns is a Berlin institution and rightly so. Having done a good job of investigating the books side of things the other day we had a hot drink in the cafe and then concentrated on the music. Rack upon rack of CDs all waiting to be flipped through (I did!) – I did buy one CD though I could have, had I any way to get the m home, have bought many more. I concentrated on the classical – had I delved further into jazz I might still be there!
We decided to ‘eat in’ today and bought substantial sandwiches & buns at local shops as well as a very decent bottle of Aldi wine (a staggering €3.99! and very palatable too)
Next up is the big focus of this break – the concert at the Berliner Philharmoniker featuring Jordi Savall and the Concert de Nations. The main piece is the Mozart Requiem and the ‘support’ piece a Mozart clarinet concerto. More on all that tomorrow.
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