Retrospective #6: Home, Work, and Play

Christmas Markets, Berlin : sweets that say sweet things

I went on a Gluhwein frenzy in Berlin.

Another Christmas Market in an old brewery, Berlin.

WTF? Raw meat on bread that Tom told me to eat for breakfast.

Tom taught me how to play Backgammon again.

Vietnamese food in Berlin. At Long last, decent asian food!!

Scandic Hotel, Berlin: Conference location

German Soul food: Potatoe dumplings and pork in a raisin and beetroot jus

Curryworst + Gluhwein, Berlin.

B2B Marketing Awards, London: Victory will be mine. Oh yes. It will be.

Busaba Thai, London: Two of my UK based besties...

New bike suffers in the snow - dodgy turquoise spray job executed by me so I can recognise it when drunk, I mean, dark...

"What is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is."

Snow in the park opposite my apartment

The calling

Berlin. Ich liebe dich. Something pulling me to you. Don't deny we have something.

Make friends with a Nerd.

Hello. I'm a strate-geek.

I actually spent my whole time in Berlin talking about advertising. And strategy. And execution. And markets.

I learnt stuff. I talked to people. I talked about trends and "paradigm shifts". I googled ads to prove a point (or three).

5 days.

Even with friends. Or rather, especially with friends. Over wine. On a friday night.

We geeked out about ads.

Concerned? Rightly so.

I'm in Siberia

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Actually, I'm in Berlin, for a conference.

But I'm pretty sure the plane landed in the wrong airport, and I am in the wrong city.

-10 deg Celcius.

There are not enough profanities in the urban dictionary to exercise my complete incomprehension of how this side of the world can live like this.