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What does The Man not want me to know?
It's more awkward to borrow a pair from a stranger than a travelling companion.
You just sit at the bar instead of a table
And you do NOT want to get caught going commando in Berlin
Huh.
That way no one will think you're a foreigner
I will say that you're more likely to be able to find decent non-german food in Berlin than most of the rest of Germany, so it's worth branching out if you see somewhere likely (I hear middling to good things about Kimchi Princess). But if you want a solid, rib-sticking dose of classic german-alsatian cooking then check out Renger-Patzsch, near Schöneburg.
Does she react to trazodone or gabapentin? If the expense is an issue and you want to DIY it, you could always ask your vet if drugging your cat is right for you!
I love Duck so much looking at him and petting him makes me so happy he's such a good boy
I have two sisters. one of them, who lives locally, fully took my mom's side and is also not speaking to me. the other sister, which was always willing to see my side of things, is unfortunately doing an internship in europe so she can't help too much
now my mom contacted me to tell my one of the family dogs is probably dying, and that if I want I can come over to her place (only when she herself is not there) to say goodbye
I'm just, in a very bad place in my life. and there's no real chance of anything changing anytime soon - not financially, romantically, or with my family.
I often wonder why the hell I'm still around. And yeah, I know this isn't the place to ask for or depend on for mental wellbeing stuff, so I expect nothing. I just... don't really have anyone else to share it all with.
how about we find you a hobby, have you heard the good word of the God-Emperor of Mankind?
edit: to be less glib, I get it, I spend a lot of time just pondering life without me in it and it breaks even, which is distressing. You do honestly gotta find A Thing. life is a shitty whirlpool and you have to cling to stuff or phbwoop.
Every single time
the despair comes for us all sometimes, I know how you feel.
I don't have any magic words to make the world stop sucking other than to let you know people care about you.
I once had a cat that not only had to come in every time, but also crawled into my pants that are around my ankles and would curl up.
I get that, used to be the same for me. Until I figured out I was the only one who cared. In Germany I don’t think we even pay attention to this, unless you go to a fancy place where everyone else is on a date and then people have other things to worry about, really.
In Berlin there are so many weird things going on all the time that nobody has the computing power to process all.
Also one of the best places to get a really good kebab.
they had a lot of stalls outside too, that was where the uh grey market stuff happened.
one of the storefronts is a gyro place, and all they have are stools in front of the counter, with your back to the passing throng.
the gyros are wonderful. the bread is so fresh, got a big spinny meat cylinder, and it is the one place where I prefer to eat alone because it feels like... you know how at the beginning of Blade Runner, Deckard is at that noodle place and it's moody as hell?
it feels like that, being just outside the human river of the aisle, but close enough to still feel them, eating strange meat, surrounded by ramshackle faux-stores hawking junk
Some of the best Turkish kebabs I ever had were in Berlin, I think they’re worth a try if you get a chance
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I live in Berlin. I go out to eat by myself sometime. It's fine, nobody will look at you weird.
I can recommend a lot, but it depends on what your interests are, where you are staying and how long you'll be here.
Döner is good, you can go to any of the touristy places for it. (i. E. Mustafas on Mehringdamm or whatever)
I agree with tynic that non German food is good here and I can't think of a German restaurant I would recommend. The exception is Försters ( https://g.co/kgs/9DU12Vj ) where they do traditional German meals with meat substitutes.
I would probably live entirely on chocolate cake
A little plug in multimeter in my everyday toolbox has literally changed my life.
I started dating a german girl who moved here about a year ago for work
she is continually surprised that america actually has really good food, except for the bread (she is also french) which she feels sucks
Black forest cake, the best kind of chocolate cake, is German
German Chocolate Cake however, is not German.
Well we are really particular about bread. It used to be even worse before supermarkets offered “freshly” baked frozen bread at low prices. Some of those are even decent.
Took me about two years to get used to foreign bread without salt in it.
Why is there so much fucking sugar in American bread and yes I know the answer it's just exhausting
Well what kind of bread are we talking about, here?
Supermarket bread?
Middle-tier restaurant bread?
Bread from the little Italian bakery in the not-so-great part of town that makes the trip still extremely worth it bread?
Traveling alone fucking RULES.
Just do what you want to do. Feel like sleeping in. Do it. Bring a book to a cafe. When you eat, hit the bar and chat with the bartender or the person next to you. Be open to people and new things, but also be open to just chilling out if you want to.
If you want, keep a photocopy of your ID at your hotel room (or vice versa depending on what you're doing) and write down your embassy number on it if you lose your shit.
In the US you can get a passport card in addition to your passport and just use that on your person.
I love meeting people who also are traveling alone.
I bought a little battery powered one to diagnose a hum in my guitar wiring and now I use it to test batteries around the house which is great. So many times instead of throwing out both AAs or coin cells in something, I only need to throw out one cause the other is nearly full.
mostly all of it, she's from right outside the black forest, and her and her wife also lived in rome for like 3 months before they came here too, so I get it
we do have some good bakeries in st. pete, but not really much that can compete
you have to dig for it though.