Breakfast in Berlin

It seems as though I have suddenly found myself back in Berlin again this autumn.

When I was here this past summer, I made some wonderful

new friends,

(see former post here)

who invited me back to visit,any time.

How could I refuse?

So here I am, living and hanging in the heart of the

MITTE neighborhood,which is about maybe

a kilometer + or - in circumference,

and I have barely made it out of this zone

in 3 days.

I started to get panicked, I have to SEE, DO, FIND

everything in Berlin in the week I am here,

and I havent even left the MITTE.

I had all these fantasies about how I would be

painting, collaging and writing in

art journals at some chic and cool cafe, whiling the

hours away,

dressed in fashionable attire

fitting for an artist,

with my little portable studio

spread out all over the table,

looking and actually being extremely prolific as I fill

page after page of the MANY blank

journals I hauled over to Europe.

(Last time I checked, they don't sell Moleskin here,

or any other blank journals either)

Oh, and each page of these newly filled journals would be a masterpiece too.

AND

I would have seen

EVERYTHING

in Berlin as well.

So as you might imagine, I have done none of this.

I am living in a fantasy land.

It is a big problem for me.

I have a seriously warped perception of reality.

Oh well.

Keep coming back.

Meanwhile, I am having a blast.

And I truly am enjoying

WHAT IS.

and

I have found the most wonderful caffe, it doesn't appear to

have a name except:

BAR CAFFE.

I am completely enamored of the place, it's a young trendy

hang out, open 24/7, with millions of 50's and 60's thrift store sofas stacked back to back

(that part is a little questionable,I could have done

a much better job with the furniture arranging)

BUT

the wall treatments are so great,

I have been obsessively studying them for days.

And I have taken about 200 photos so far.

They went down to the existing rock and sheetrock in this broken down building

and left all the rawness and then did beautiful graphite pencil drawings on

heavy tracing paper and pasted them onthe walls , so the effect is translucent

and the drawings look totally integrated with the crumbling, raw walls.

Plus, the BAR CAFFE makes killer espresso.