Baww, still no news on the flat frontier. :( Starting to get a bit nervous, this flat is rented just until the end of September and can't be rented for a longer period...
Well, it's still hard to be in too bad a mood as the weather is absolutely stunning! It's been a lot warmer now, around 20° and even over, lovely sunshine and the trees are little by little turning into reddish-yellow-orange. A fabulously mild autumn, especially compared to Finland where the shift from summer to autumn is very intense and (at its worst) harsh. In the end of August it is not that unlikely for the temperature to climb up to even 30°C (86°F), whereas in the beginning of October, the temperature probably has dropped to a little over 10 degrees (50°F) or even under. And during those few weeks nature has shown what extremely vivid and breath-taking colours it is able to produce, I don't even have the words for it. Love it. Then comes a wet, dark, cold and utterly depressing period preceding winter, also known as October, especially November, and often also the beginning of December. Hate it.
But as said, here it isn't anywhere near 10 degrees yet. On the contrary: I've been on the verge of a heat stroke with my Finland-adapted autumn clothing (i.e. jacket, scarf, maybe even gloves and a cap), when in reality even a long-sleeved is sometimes a bit much! I really do not complain, this is exactly the stage of autumn I love :) The shorter the novemberperiod is, the better.
That was the case also last Sunday, when I finally got myself dragged to Mauerpark Flohmarkt, which I mentioned in a previous post. I had taken it easy all Saturday (because I came home on Saturday morning around 8 or 9 and didn’t get much sleep in daytime... O:-), so I was fresh as a day drop and eager to get some fresh air and explore the flea market. I also took my camera with me, in defiance of looking like a stupid tourist. I was very glad for that, as walking through Görlitzer Park (where some were even sun bathing!) the view was wonderful. I also had to catch the view from Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree.
Autumn in Görlitzer Park, Kreuzberg.
Spree, view from Oberbaumbrücke, Kreuzberg/Friedrichshain.
I’ll mutilate this post into two, and continue with the flea market in a moment – otherwise this’ll turn into such a novel that no one will have attention span long enough to get through it.
(Again I was going to write about the bureaucracy, I even had this named “Cutting through the red tape”, but I keep failing miserably with this project! Luckily the actual bureaucracy is at least for the most part overcome, that much I’ll tell you.)
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