I ate some great food on this trip, some of which I’ve already mentioned, but I thought I would pull it together here for future reference: House of Small Wonder: Japanese and French plates, usually in a jewel-box location in the Hackescher Markt but temporarily relocated to the courtyard of the beautiful former Jewish Girls’Continue reading “Friday Favorites: Berlin Restaurants”
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Sunny Morning in the Tiergarten
The old hunting grounds of the princes of Brandenburg. This is by the tea house in the English Garden.
Forest Listening
My colleague Birgit and I are working on a book about the promise (and problems) of monitoring forests from space. So, we’re spending a lot of time thinking about forests, reading stories about them, looking at maps of them, viewing art about them, and…listening to them? Birgit recently did a project with her students andContinue reading “Forest Listening”
Franziskanerkloster Ruine
Right across from my hotel in Alexanderplatz sat the oldest building in Berlin: the remains of a Franciscan monastery from the 13th century that was the first outpost/settlement of the town by the Margrave of Brandenburg. There was a roughly simultaneous settlement on the nearby island in the Spree River that is now Museum Island,Continue reading “Franziskanerkloster Ruine”
SOFI
Yummy bakery on the beautiful Sophienstraße.
Museum für Naturkunde
I went to a really interesting panel here tonight called “Mapping Co-Habitation,” but the stars of the show were the incredible brachiosaurus fossil that loomed over us and this beautiful little archaeopteryx above, who had his own chapel-like viewing room. They apparently usually have AR (augmented reality) headsets that let you view the brachiosaurus andContinue reading “Museum für Naturkunde”
Sunny Fall Day in Berlin
The weather is supposed to be nice through the weekend!
Ramen
Miso ramen and genmaicha from Hako on a rainy fall day in Berlin.
Berlin
View from the rooftop garden of my apartment in Prenzlauer Berg. Attended the reopened Humboldt Forum’s Ethnology and Asian Art collections tonight and had a nice dinner at Kin Za, a Georgian restaurant near Rosenthaler Platz.
Southwestern Road Trip
I never liked the coming of fall as a kid growing up in New Mexico. First of all, it meant summer (i.e., freedom) was over. The sunlight got washed out in a way that made me feel dizzy, but it was still hot enough that I sweated in my cute back-to-school sweaters. All the livestockContinue reading “Southwestern Road Trip”
The Rookery 