Bumbag Motel

Latham and Mick are just kidding here, they LOVE’d having their photo taken in this park in London – Abbie’s glorious smile be more representative of joyous meeting times with Emma. Mick was tour guide extraordinaire, after meeting at the ‘big clock at Waterloo station’, we went to Borough markets to consume some deliiiicimo pies and coffee (below), then by the Thames to have a drink by a big naval ship, and then further down to an underground bar replete with low ceiling’d cave (also below). After this merry make reunion, I went for dinner and drinks with McRobie, Rich, E Powell, Charlotte and Tess! And so the catch ups began…

had a great day out on Saturday, doing some winter shopping, cafe embracing and general Berlin exploration for the festival of lights. Above is Cam in front of the well lit Brandenburger Tor, one of many landmarks emblazened in light, with the “face” projection by Potsdamer Platz below. We also checked out a book store and gallery called Neurotitan where they had giant stuffed animals and great posters on display (me napping beside the bunny below), and Cam in the colourful alley. brilliant day out and about in berlin!

the 14th of Oktober was our Spanish flatmate Uri’s 23rd birthday so we embraced a sugary rum concoction, cake and indoor table tennis! The table is single player only and consisted of our dining table and bits of scrap card. Here we have Cam and Uri in mid-point dispute.

been intending to get to these two sites since coming to Berlin: abandonned “Spreepark” aumsement park and the memorial to the Soviet soldiers. Found out that you can go to a cafe in the amusement park and from there get a 2 euro train that takes you right around the park, to see the disbanded and discarded pieces – all left to nature’s devices. From there we went to the memorial to the Soviet soldiers which is truly gigantasur and a great site to see in the fading autumn light. Great day seeing some of Berlin’s unique sites!

we had the merry man sam latham return to the berlin midst. this day there was a 3 kebab count, many beers and here wine at “Weinerei” where you pay 2 euros for your glass, then fill them up as you like and pay for how much you drunk in a jar at the door!! needless to say, it makes for most enjoyable times, particularly amusing when people walk through selling food and cookies.

29th of September marks Cam’s birthday (28 this year) and when we first got together (7 years this year) – so we decided to have a getaway day to Bad Saarow (that’s the name of the place). It’s an hour out of Berlin, by a large lake and has a great thermal pools complex which we enjoyed later in the day. Most of the day was spent strolling about the lake, picnicing, drinking beers, checking out the crazy cribs and seeking seeking table tennis – which found partial success with a table right by a marina…but with no net.

there was no sport’s day intention at the start of this saturday – a morning of watching both rugby union AND rugby league at torsten and lisa’s must have inspired it. from their house we had some Table Tennis battles (cam and torsten above), where cam was the reigning champ. beers in the street, we went to the maybucher markets and had some most delicious crepes care of Naj, and thought we would peruse the “marathon” – although this marathon consisted of rollerbladers (you can see cam’s boundless joy below). then moved onto outdoor mini golf from here, with cam once again unfortunately dominating, then happily finding a porta loo (cam entering and lisa looking on below). italian dinns and delectable wines brought this glory day to its conclusion!