Sunday, July 25, 2010

Botanischer Garten!

M was quite popular, 

especially with the coots.

The plants were fantastic, of course:







the cinquecento

Here is the smallest and cutest car ever manufactured. It is the Fiat 500 (or, if you are italian, cinquecento). In principle it has four seats, but the front seats are so close together that you can only fit two if they are touching, and the back ones only have legroom for a barbie doll. Also, it appears to be made out of aluminum cans and it probably has a go-kart engine. But look, it's a convertible!


Life with no car is super easy in Berlin. You can walk from one subway stop to the next in ten minutes so anywhere is five minutes or less from transit. And even though you're not supposed to, people bring all kinds of ridiculous stuff with them on the subway. Furniture, building materials, exotic animals... I saw an entire band of musicians, with drum kit, performing on a train!