August 19th, 2009 - Easy -
Whilst the rest of Berlin are eating ice-creams and hanging in parks, soaking in the final weeks of summer for the year, we here at Easy HQ have been inundated with friends and family and therefore repetitive and robotic trips to Check Point Charlie, The East Side Gallery and one of the “you know, BIG clubs,” etc. Why are we telling you this? Well, because we ran out of time to attend something that would appeal to the MOOKS team, so here we are, writing about one of our favourite low-key past times – sitting on a bridge.
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August 11th, 2009 - Easy -
Amidst the bustle of map-clutching tourists, superbly styled young things and fragrant hippies, it’s hard to imagine the area now occupied by Berlin’s biggest and busiest flea market was a complete no-man’s land up until about twenty years ago . The area was once part of the heavily guarded ‘death strip’ along the infamous Berlin wall; a vast and eerily silent stretch of land in the former East German district of Prenzlauer Berg. After the fall of the wall in 1989, the public reclaimed the land and now, every Sunday, Mauerpark plays host to what on a sunny day can feel like half of Berlin – the ubiquitous bargain hunters, artists, performers, tourists (and the dodgiest bike salesmen in town).
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August 5th, 2009 - Easy -
So you’ve probably gorged yourself on an ungodly amount of döner kebaps, flooded your system with outrageously affordable Weissbier, and danced like a space drone to some questionable minimal techno at an über-club. Next step for you, aspirational Berliner, is to find yourself a sexy ride to complete the transformation. Allow us to introduce you to Damen-Salon. Sitting pretty in the made-up suburb of ‘Kreuzkölln’ (pretty much Neukölln, but trendy like Kreuzberg), is the quaint and buzzing workshop of Manuel and his fellow bike lovers, Brian and Jens. The one-time ladies beauty salon is now the think-tank for some of Berlin’s – if not Europe’s – finest two-wheeled steeds.
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