recently i've come upon a street sign in my neighborhood which was titled "manteuffelstrasse". roughly translated this means " street of the man-devil". not only did i think it was kinda cool to have a street warn you of the facts of life, but i also had gotten inspired to look for more of these geographical truths here in b-town. unfortunately i didn't find anything else.
the street where i'm living is called "rich hill street" and all people i see outside my window seem to be either unemployed, poor students or turkish families of 7. and the district where i'm living is called "cross hill". there's also a "prenzlau hill", a "beautiful hill" and a "hill of lights". they all sound pretty, but berlin is as flat as it gets. absolutely no hill in sight. actually there's one, the "devil's hill". but technically speaking it's just a mountain of rubble from WWII. i didn't fare any better with the "tiergarten" district, where one should find a "garden of animals". i've been there, but all i've seen in the park was a man who was jerking off behind a bush :( though one could say, that he showed some animalistic behavior. which brings me back to the man-devil...
note:
the picture up there shows the "paris square" with the brandenburg gate - which features lots of japanese tourists besides a huge starbucks and the jfk museum. and then there's the story of napoleon trying to steal the triaga on top of the gate... not so appropriate, huh?
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When I come to visit, we are totally going to steal that Triaga! That will be one less thing on my list of things to do that Napoleon never did!
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