22.07.010 - Not a "Renoir"

...this is not a "Renoir"or "Monet" although this photograph resembles slightly the brilliant works of these great artists of impressionism..., but I am pretty sure a hundred years ago nobody have ever seen rueda dancers - and certainly not only by reason of those short skirts...

(location: "Strandbar Mitte" at Monbijou Park)

21.07.2010 - Dirty Dancing

- Mambo Show at the beach bar Bundespressestrand - "Penny & Johnny" leading artists from the Dirty Dancing Musical on their promotion tour...

18.07.2010 - Sound of Silence

...for "townies" pure nature is the recreative return for a weekends bicyclerace..., just a few train stations behind the northern city limit of Berlin you can discover germanys most impressive lakelands...

17.07.2010 - Dragonfly

...take a trip to mother nature, leave all sorrows behind you, watch flowers, birds and bees, see how dragonflies having breakfast and realize .....how cruel mother nature really is...

15.07.2010 - Dees World

...public promotion video shooting of a well known dance school - in front of the American embassy at the Brandenburg Gate...

14.07.2010 - Tango Argentino

...every wednesday night tango dancers enjoy the magic ambience of their hot tango night at the beach bar "Strandbar Mitte" close to Monbijou Park...

13.07.2010 - The girl is mine...

...oh no no she's mine...
(Michael Jackson & Paul Mc Cartney)

Young salseros at their first salsa lesson at the "Traumstrand", one of Berlins beloved open air beach bars...

11.07.2010 - Spain-Netherlands 1:0

...public viewing at the "Berlin Fan Mile": two typical spanish girls ;-) get their final outfit for the FIFA World Cup Final...

10.07.2010 - Cowgirl

...cowgirl at wet-guitar-contest...

3.7.2010 - Germany-Argentinia 4:0

...don't believe that only men watch football and celebrate their teams...

02.07.2010 - hot summer nights

...ballroom dancing without a ballroom...
"in the summertime when the wheather is high" several open air beach bars invite their guests to tango, salsa and cha-cha-cha...
(Foto: Strandbar Mitte at Monbijou Park)
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27.06.2010 - Germany-England 4:1

...Round of 16 at the World Cup 2010...
today even Heinz the dog wears his white jersey of the german national team...

13.06.2010 - City Festival

...at the 18th Lesbian and Gay City Festival...

23.05.2010 - Karneval der Kulturen

...Berlin-Kreuzberg - well known for its cultural diversity and the annual festive days "Karneval der Kulturen" with its exotic, erotic, fabulous and colourful street parade...

14.05.2010 - Camel

...what the hell is inside that ruin - I couldn't believe my eyes, when I caught a glimpse of.... a camel!!!

13.05.2010 - Ahoi

..."what shall we do with the drunken sailor"...,
city-seamen enjoy the "Father's Day", in eastern Germany better known as "Herrentag", which is traditionally celebrated on the Christian Ascension Day...

10.05.2010 - Balance

...Balerina proudly presents her new black "Tütü"...

09.05.2010 - Pretty Cloudy

...pretty claudi and windy at the Tempelhofer Park...

08.05.2010 - Flying Bears

Opening ceremonies at the new Tempelhofer Park:
The cheerleaders of the Berlin Bears show how to fly at the former airport Berlin-Tempelhof.

The legendary and history-charged inner-city airport (The "Berlin Airlift" during the cold war) has been closed down 18 month ago to convert the whole area to a huge city park with buildings for cultural events.

07.05.2010 - ...what the hell...

...young to-be sports car driver wonders why the can holder for his coke is mounted at the front spoiler... ;-)

(Mercedes-World showroom in Berlin-Charlottenburg)

03.05.2010 - Lost and Found

02.05.2010 - The day after

01.05.2010 - May-Demonstration

...due to the "Baumblütenfest" in Werder the train from Magdeburg is far behind schedule, a punk informs his friends that he will arrive late for the legendary May-demonstration in Berlin-Kreuzberg...

30.04.2010 - Picknick

28.04.2010 - Admiralbrücke

...the Admiral-Bridge - more than an insider's tip for tourists...

27.04.2010 - Baumblütenfest II

...the blossoming season festival "Baumblütenfest" at Werder might also be called bosoming season festival...,
young Fräuleins from eastern Germany show - and leave no doubt about it - where the most beautiful girls live..., it is said that "in Brandenburg und Sachsen, die hübschen Mädchen auf den Bäumen wachsen" (...in Brandenburg and Saxony, where the beautiful girls grow on trees).

26.04.2010 - Baumblütenfest I

...the red eagle - heraldic animal of the region Brandenburg - looks from the viewpoint "Bismarck-Höhe" over the 2nd biggest festival (1rst: Oktoberfest) in Germany, the "Baumblütenfest" in Werder at the river Havel...,
people celebrate the blossoming season and taste the wide range of the latest fruit wines...

25.04.2010 - Bearpit Karaoke

..."cheaper than a night at the blue man group, better than dirty dancing": Bearpit-Open-Air-Karaoke at the Mauerpark, the Berlin Wall Park..., a must-see for all tourists...

24.04.2010 - genie in a bottle

...decanted and corked by Elly...

23.04.2010 - shisha creek

...freeclimbing at shisha creek in Kreuzberg - believe it or not, but this wild nature is in the heart of Berlin...

21.04.2010 - Relax

...even skeletons need a break...

18.04.2010 - "Little Woodstock"

...at the Mauerpark (Berlin Wall Park) every sunny weekend starts one of the biggest non organised events in Berlin, young people just meet to BBQ, make music, have fun at the open air karaoke or play streetball, haggle at the close flea market or just chill and hang around...

17.04.2010 - East Side Gallery

...what a sunny weekend, 20°C and almost summer, people chill at the East Side Gallery (a must-see for every tourist)...

16.04.2010 - Spreeufer

11.04.2010 - Hauptbahnhof Berlin

...sometimes people take off their bicycle seats to irritate thieves, but guess what danish girls do... ;-)

(...yes, she told me, she's from Denmark)

...almost summer...

...at East Side Gallery...

almost summer

08.04.2010 - Angies washing machine

...tourists queue at the Berliner Reichstag or take pictures of the German Bundeskanzleramt, the so-called "Angies washing machine", ...but can that be fascinating as much as a living creature, even if it's a simple white dove!?...

06.04.2010 - girls go crazy

...at the parliament...

05.04.2010 - and the winner is

Final day of the international ballroom dance competition "Blaues Band der Spree".

04.04.2010 - Heavy Easter!

...Easter Sunday in Berlins central shopping mall "Arcaden", ...and nobody took notice when suddenly the colorfull presents of the "Jurassic Park Film Production" soundlessly crrrrr.....!

03.04.2010 - Competition

...who's fighting against whom?
Wie jedes Jahr zu Ostern streiten sich in Berlin wieder Tänzer aus aller Welt um die begehrten Tanz-Trophäen des "Blauen Bandes der Spree"...

02.04.2010 - Osterwochenende

...heißt es nun "der Bunny" oder "das Bunny" ?!?


...lazing on a sunny afternoon ("The Kinks"),
...lazing on a sunday afternoon ("Queen"),
...lazing on an x-large weekend (EasterRabbit +kind of Heidi)

01.04.2010 - unbelievable !!!

...unbelievable, but true,
although it's April Fools' Day - she can walk on air, water and even sunshine!

31.03.2010 - Osterferien

...heute beginnen die Osterferien, jedoch können einige von der Schule nicht genug bekommen - die Häschenschule hat jetzt Hochkonjunktur!

28.03.2010 - Osterhäschen

...Ostern ist offensichtlich nicht mehr weit...

28.03.2010 - Osterhase

...eine alte Bauernregel sagt: Je länger der Winter, desto knalliger die Osterdekoration...

20.03.2010 - Frühlingsbeginn

...der Frühling zeigt sich zaghaft von seiner bunten Seite...

18.03.2010 - Tiger-Lilien

...es gehört schon zur ganz großen Kunst der Verführung, mit derartigen Tigerlilien hier das Herz einer Dame zu erobern - wenn sie nicht gerade Tigerlilly heißt.
Durchaus bessere Chancen hat man da in China, insbesondere zum Jahr des Tigers, mit diesem Bouquet das Herz einer der 500.000.000 Chinesinnen zu gewinnen ;-)

17.03.2010 - Waschtag

...warum zum Waschtag eine Wäscheleine spannen?!? schließlich kann man doch Hosen, Schlüpfer und andere schlüpfrige Wäsche einfach in den Baum hängen - 's trocknet doch dort genauso...