04.01.219 min read

Berlin doesn't care about you, and that's the point

Nobody's impressed, nobody's watching, and the döner is open at 4am. Heaven, basically.

The great indifference

No city has ever ignored me so completely, and I have never felt more free. Berlin does not want to know what you do for work and it will not remember your name. Wonderful.

"Freedom is a city that forgets your face by morning."

The 4am economy

Everything closes and nothing closes. The döner is eternal. Somewhere a door is open and a bass line is leaking out of it, and that door is for you.

Porto, or how I learned to drink lunch

They fortify the wine here so you don't have to fortify yourself. Respect the tradition.

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