Motorcylce girder front end4/1/2024 ![]() In November 2013, I moved here with my girlfriend and we’ve lived ever since in an apartment on the first floor of an old Altbau building towards the northern end of the city, on the edge of the lesser-known Pankow district. Berlin, I discovered, was suddenly very different. The broad, rectilinear streets shimmered in leaf-shadows as cyclists whizzed past. People were sitting outdoors, drinking, smoking, talking, and the city’s trees - poplars, lindens, oaks, horse chestnuts - were all in full bloom. I visited again for a week-long summer break a few years later. The place was covered in snow and I found the city, in the mist and cold, to be spectral, angular, haunting. ![]() My first visit to Berlin was a weekend trip in November 2006.
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