Berlin's Burger

  A friend of mine introduced me to possibly the best burger joint in all of Berlin. As with most great finds its a tiny hole in the wall kind of place with room for three or four to sit inside and picnic tables out on the sidewalk. While you wait inside there's a Super Nintendo to keep you entertained. There's always a crowd and everything is prepared fresh upon your order. So expect a 20 minute wait from that point.
  There is a list of menu burgers, chicken, vegetarian etc. However I still haven't managed to try any of the regular menu burgers as they also have a weekly special:

oh my, ya bitte.

  This one above is a beef burger with rucola, tomato, house mayo sauce, Camembert cheese, a fried potato patty and schinken (German cured ham). Rather pricey at 7.50 but that's cheap anywhere else but Berlin.

One of our group had the regular cheese burger (4.90), looks good but I'm still thinking about the one above.

  This one was called Sergeant Walnut, 50% Lamb 50% beef, aged Parmesan cheese, grilled veggies, Walnuts, Aioli, Pesto Mayo.

  On a previous visit the special was a beef burger with caramelized onion, and a slightly sweet  cranberry mayo, Feta cheese but the rest is a hazy memory drizzled in fat.

  The place is called Berlin Burger International in the Neukölln district of Berlin. Worth checking out if you're in the area.

Cheers
Andrew

Berlin Kulture

Not long after the May first events in Berlin is the annual Karneval Der Kulturen . You can see more from that in previous posts here but this year we found a park with these guys below.

  They had drum sets setup and drew a big crowd.

This guy was in the crowd and spontaneously joined in.

  Great sounds and beat had the place jumping. Looking forward to next years impromptu park concert.

Andy

A few faces in the crowd

Just a few folks in the crowd from this years May Day party on Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg

To each their own.

Like it says, Berlin Hustles Harder.

Caio for now
Andy

The 2nd cat posting, there may be more.

Ok so I took care of my friends cats recently and while at her place I managed to take a few photos that caught the personality of each as well as their ability to get along (put up with each other):

This is Juan, he's been around the block a few times.

  My friend thought he needed a playmate so she found Betty a few months ago:

There was a bird in here, did you see it? Where did it go? I'm hungry, do you have food?

You look'n at me?

10...9...8...7..

If you look carefully you'll notice who is more confident in the frontal assault.

Considering that this is Juan's territory, he's very kind with her. She's not holding back with those claws.

Bad kitty.

 Half the time their wrestling matches evolve into mutual grooming sessions... for about 5 seconds, then Betty decides that he's been mollycoddled enough and goes for a take down.

Cheers
Andy