Long time no post

So it's been a while, partly because I've been spending my time setting up ecoamsterdam.blogspot.com (yes, check it out!).

So a little something for now, written on a Saturday afternoon in a beer garden in Berlin:

Almost an afternoon in Prater...

I mean, it's just so unbelievably cool. The sun shining through the trees and clouds, landing golden in my beer. The diving board rusting and used now only as a light post. No swimming pool to dive into, just a concrete play place for children. And play they do, with the stones and anything else to hand. The small brown birds that are infused in Berlin's ground and flower beds gather, steal, depart. The cold of winter and Russian tanks and clinging waiting seems to lurk in the wind, but it is not here yet. The sun shines through the clouds again and friends and more beer arrive. I have picked up summers end and found it has all the flavour of the memories made by millions throughout this city of permanence and transience.