We’re engaged!
Paris Notes
Verjus (go there for dinner, it’s delicious)
Oscar Wilde’s room at L’Hôtel (stay there, it’s magical)
Paris streets (walk them, they’re beautiful)
Melody Gardot at L’Olympia (listen to her, you’ll fall in love)
Drinks for her 30th
@marciaann in her new shades from the Boxhagener Platz Flea Market
SLATER riding through the streets of Kreuzberg.
Chapter One coffee shop.
And on the second day, I bought a bike
Marcia joked and said don't come to meet her at the office today without a bike. So after a late rise (6 hours ahead ain't no joke) I headed down the block a shop to have a look at some new bikes. I knew I would buy used but figured it was good to get an idea on the cost in euros of a new one – 799€ for something I liked. I set my budget at around 300€.
The used shop is in a part of town called Neukölln which feels a bit like Bushwick. For the bike, the only parameters was that it had to have a flat handle bar and be single speed. I ended up with a 80s French-made MBX Leader.
And I named it: SLATER
I didn't realize how bright and 80s it was until I got to Fab and looked around at all the others. It's so bright! I met up with Marcia and some other Fab Europe folks to celebrate July 4th on the canal.
Riding down a runway in Tempelhof
My u-bahn stop
July 4th on the canal
July 4th on the canal
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A few months back I decided to spend a good amount of time in Europe with @marciaann. I arrived in Berlin two days ago and will stay for the next 3 months. I’ll post photos and other musings in various places online and, if I’m diligent, each week will end in recap on wordbk.com (my goal is every tuesday).
@ Berlin Tegel (TXL)
Leaving America
Ok, I guess it's finally here. I've packed up and am heading to Europe for 3 months*. Practically speaking, staying and working as a freelance art director for the rest of the summer would probably have been the most wise ($) choice. But, we all know someone's going to move the cheese before I'm ready anyway so why not just stop running after it for a bit and see what else is around. Go soil my creative oats. Feed my brain a bit. Experience a summer away from the hot and hazy and humid and sweaty Brooklyn for once.
Also, Marcia is there and I am not. I couldn't let this moment pass without experiencing and living in Berlin with her. Years down the line when she is still taking like "that time in berlin I..." Well, in Berlin they..." "when i was in europe..."
So here I am, starting a record of my time away.
I usually let pictures say all the words. It isn't going to be easy attempting to write and publish my own. Ok, some notes about this journal project:
- The idea is to write more, and at the least post a recap once a week. I did something similar 12 years ago during an internship in Zürich, which was fun and now it's the only way i look back at that time.
- Post are bound to get cut off abruptly. Done is better than perfect, right?
- I'm usually afraid to write because of the many mistakes that i'll to make and the little embarrassment i feel when i go back to read it a day, a month or 10 years later. But they say reading more helps so…
- I'd like to read as many books as weeks that i'm here and share my thoughts on them. Recommendations welcome.
- Content won't always be specifically about the trip. Maybe just some things I want to keep a personal record of.
Now, onto the show.
Music crosses all stoop and color lines.
Vernon Ave Stoop Session
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10,000 miles and counting.
Heat Win Game 7
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