Yesterday I awoke to Plingstsonntag, or rather, Sunday Pentecost. Turns out it takes two days to celebrate this holiday here so today is Pflingstmontag and, like yesterday, mostly all the shops are closed...and all the restaurants, cafes, and die Kneipen (bars) remain open. After getting myself together I proceeded to the Hallesches Tor because Regina had told me there was to be an annual carnival there which always gets rained on:
I hadn´t realized that this was the Carnival of Cultures until after I had gotten there and I seem to remember someone telling me about it...Usch, es tut mir lied, ich habe dir vergessen zu anrufen aber mein Telefon war kaput! It had rained a little while there making Regine´s observation correct.
The Karneval was an ethnic mixture of foods and artifacts and musik that went on all day as the crowds just grew and grew. People flowed like the Spree along the streets of the festival. After doing a swing-through I headed home for a nap, of all things...I had had a couple of beers.
Getting up I headed for a tour of the city passing through the Nollendorf Platz, Bierhimmel in the Kruezberg, Potsdamer Platz, and then Schönhauser Allee...promising myself to return here again. Revitalized, I returned to der Karneval der Kultur for the evening and found it evermore crowded... I had a plate of tortellini...schmeckt gut! and did a final walk around before heading home.
...photo album Berlin 05.28.2007...
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