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An oldie but goldie from 2000. The area around Rosenthaler Strasse (which is the street he is dancing on) looks pretty different nowadays.

Just in time for May 1st 2008 the streets outside in Friedrichshain (between Simon-Dach-Strasse and Ostkreuz) are so busy with people you wouldn’t know where they suddenly all come from. Especially the area around Boxi is surrounded by police and pretty heavy gear. Roadblocks in the making and helicopters patrolling impatiently above. Parts of Boxi are enlightended as if it was daytime and most, if not all the shops in the area are already closed down.

I just made my way up to the Kaisers at Warschauer Strasse and the people go shopping crazy as if it was Christmas time or new year, or some sort of natural disaster cutting them off for multiple days from the outside. My bank at the corner closed this afternoon and put extra thick plexiglass in all windows which are usually see-through, if you know what I mean. Check out the picture above, you can usually see through the door and for the next 24 hours you can’t.

I am pretty surprised that some lone shops are still open, they probably don’t know it better yet.

So I checked out Cookies last weekend. It’s one of those hipster restaurants in Mitte. It’s a pretty interesting place, not just because we had to search for the entrance (it is hidden behind bottles of beer and dumpsters in the back of Behrenstrasse 55), but also because of the interior (open kitchen, seating, …) and all the food is vegetarian - but maybe that’s just Mitte-chique. :-)

I wrote more about it on Qype (in English). All in all, we had a good time and if you need to go somewhere to impress your guests or date without ending up at the Riz, Cookies is probably it.

This picture is from the backside of Friedrichstraße, I took this series of pictures last year on a early Sunday morning (it was summer :-)) after shopping at supermarket at Friedrichstraße. And since I just figured out the other week how to do nifty photomerges, here is the result.

I haven’t checked recently on the progress of the construction site, but the rooftop et all should be gone by now.

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