Category Archives: Chums
Eat Your Clogged Heart Out, Paula Deen
We started out wanting to have a couple friends over for an evening of Youtube videos (like this one) and snacking. We ended up frying every food in sight and sending our guests into a literal food coma. On the … Continue reading
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Moonrise Kingdom
Last night we met up with friends for a showing of Wes Anderson’s new movie, Moonrise Kingdom. We topped of the evening with cantaloupe cocktails and British candy and good conversation. I love long summer nights. P.S. The movie was … Continue reading
Exploring Devil’s Mountain
Yesterday some people who look like us but definitely aren’t us had one of our best Berlin adventures to date. Minor trespassing may have been involved, but it’s okay, because everyone else was doing it, too. I should repeat that … Continue reading
Adventures at the Abandoned Amusement Park
Yesterday afternoon we set out intent to break the law in the name of adventure. The plan was to climb the fence, somehow avoid the guards and their (rumored) dogs, and wander freely through the lost Eden of the Spreepark, Berlin’s … Continue reading
The Pratergarten is the Best Garten
We have thunderstorms in the forecast today, but for the past week we’ve had summer temperatures and happy temperaments. On Sunday we met up with friends at Berlin’s oldest and largest beer garden. Beer culture is one of my favorite … Continue reading
Snippets
This week… … I went with friends to see a free lunch time concert at the Berlin Philharmonic. It felt very grown-up and cultured, except for all the teenaged tour groups who napped/texted/flirted/acted inappropriately throughout the whole performance. I fear … Continue reading
Recent Happenings
This week… … We bowled our little hearts out in Friedrichschain with friends. My bowling talent remains weirdly latent, despite my flawless form. … Our new favorite sitcom, Green Wing, continued to win our hearts and steal much of our … Continue reading
A Seven Euro Visit to Poland
Death’s Head played hooky from academia on Friday so that we could meet up with some friends for some adventuring. We planned our day around cheap train tickets in predictable fashion. For seven Euro a person we had the option … Continue reading
The Temple Mount
For our final day in Jerusalem our main goal was to visit the Temple Mount. If you don’t want to read to the end of this post, you should know that we achieved our goal! Ain’t it great being successful? … Continue reading
Caesarea, Take Two!
During our first trip to Israel we visited Caesarea and it went over well, so when we were in the area in December, we visited again. It’s okay to see cool things twice. This go around we spent most of … Continue reading
