“You have to take the rough with the smooth”, say the riffraff to the gentrified (or vice versa). And there is still a good deal of gritty realism to be spotted in Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, at least as far as the exterior design goes. So that us middle-classes can sit with a latte and laptop and enjoy the crumbling charm of [...] Continue Reading…
The former home country of megalomania and kitsch has undergone a transition over the recent years that is a bit of a jaw-dropping affair, to say the least. The Krauts have gone from a nation of grumpy white-socked misanthropes with a world-domineering streak and ‘Lebensraum’-claiming towels to a people of cool and charisma.
Germany has turned into the promised land. How did that [...] Continue Reading…
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