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Savoy cabbage at the organic market at Wittenbergplatz. So green, so frilly, so gorgeous.

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Proof that blue skies in Berlin in winter aren’t a figment of my imagination.

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Stolpersteine in my old neighborhood commemorating a family of Weiss’s (no relation) who took their own lives and those of their children in 1943.

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Oddly beautiful lanterns hanging from the trees around Winterfeldplatz.

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A snapshot of a day spent wandering the East with my mom, like tourists in our own city.

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A Herrnhuter Stern, traditional Christmas decoration in Germany, that someone thinks looks like a mace.

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A motorcycle I wanted to pack up and take with me, thank you very much. Could it be any cuter? I think not.

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19 responses to “Hach, Berlin”

  1. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Your photos can take me there. What camera/lens do you use??

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  2. Luisa Avatar

    A Nikon D80 with a 50 mm lens.

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  3. Lynne Avatar

    I’m so into savoy cabbage right now – I keep making Orangette’s cabbage gratin – over and over again!

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  4. ann Avatar

    Interesting! We went for a walk around town Upstate on Saturday and saw a house with one of those, ahem, mace-like stars, hanging in their foyer and we both thought it was sooooo pretty! Now I know where to get one. Berlin, here I come! Danke!

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  5. L*Joy Yodersmith Avatar

    oh I am so glad to see such beautiful photos on this monday morning. thanks for sharing.

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  6. Julie Avatar

    Beautiful pictures. Happy New Year, Luisa!

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  7. jenny Avatar
    jenny

    lovely lovely pics! thanks for the mini-vacation. oh, and how about that swoon-worthy cabbage?! I promise you that the cabbages in whole foods have not even been looking like distant cousins of that fine specimen.
    welcome back!

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  8. Anja Avatar
    Anja

    Hach, you make me homesick!

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  9. Molly Chester Avatar

    Hi Luisa,
    I really love your blog! I just found it through my friend Celeste’s blog “Meals at Home.” I thought I would share my little blog with you:
    http://organicspark.blogspot.com
    Thanks for all your generosity!
    Molly

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  10. Lisa (dinner party) Avatar

    Beautiful shots. Thanks for the mini vacation, Luisa! Happy New Year!

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  11. maryn Avatar

    the pictures are beautiful. but those stones are so sad: “fled into death”…

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  12. Dawn in CA Avatar
    Dawn in CA

    You’re back! Happy new year and thanks for the lovely photos. 🙂 Looking forward to (maybe?) reading about any and all culinary adventures from your trip.

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  13. Katherine Avatar
    Katherine

    The star is a Moravian star. We have them in the US as Christmas decorations too, but here they are typically white. The ones made in Herrnhut are made in many different colors and I think they are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
    You can buy them here from a Moravian Church. http://www.moravian.org

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  14. pen and paper Avatar

    What a beautiful city. One day I want to travel there myself. This series of photos is a perfect amuse bouche.

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  15. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Thanks for your camera info! (This is something I’ve been researching.) Is it the 50mm f/1.8?

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  16. Luisa Avatar

    Anja – oje, I’m sorry. Hopefully in a good way and not a sad way. 🙂
    Maryn – yes, they’re heartbreakingly sad. You see them everywhere in Berlin now. I couldn’t stop photographing them.
    Dana – it is!

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  17. Ulla Avatar

    I love berlin and I have only been there in the winter:) Thanks for the post:)

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  18. Dena Avatar
    Dena

    Beautiful photos– and it sounds like you had a wonderful time! But aren’t those brass “stones” in front of the houses memorials to people taken to concentration/extermination camps during World War II?

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  19. Luisa Avatar

    Dena – Yes, they are memorials to Berlin Jews who died during the Holocaust. This particular family was forced into suicide in 1943, two years before the end of the war.

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