Week 6 : Berlin

This week my birthday month started: it was again a stressful week at work on the one hand, on the other,  I had such a great time with the lovely boyfriend and received so many presents and birthday wishes that I can consider myself more than happy. Plus: the Berlinale began!

The birthday aperitivo

Monday, 2 February 2015: I had an amazing solo aperitivo at home and drank over half of a Mumm Rosé bottle and after some time spent drinking without eating, I went out for dinner with R. and had a Pizza Diavola that made me suffer the whole night (it can't have been the Rosé!)
Tuesday, 3 February 2015: I went to bed at 9 and had nothing for dinner. Started the new year as a lion.
Wednesday, 4 February 2015: mmm..chicken thighs- marinated with litres of lemon, Kgs of thymian and wild fennel,  and at least 4 garlic cloves. The bio and corn-feeded-chicken proved to be worth what it costed and was over tasty. I was just too full to have more that a tiny bit. I also received a ca. 12 Kg package from my parents full of delikatessen.
Thursday, 5 February 2015: yoghurt!
Friday, 6 February 2015: Second birthday dinner! actually it should have happened on my Birthday but first, Monday sucks, second too much work and we missed the time, even though I didn't know what the "surprise" / "date at 7 at Alexanderplatz" would have brought me. And it brought me to a wonderful place, and not to the theater where I thought we were headed: Serrano, in Wilmersdorf, practically an area of the city that I know as much as Poland. The food was fresh, tasty, spicy, in your mouth the 1256 different tapas of the appetizer would melt with different layers of flavours und blablabla and I could have drunk all the ceviche marinade. Even the Chilean Chardonnay I had fit in, it was perfect.
And it was months since we really had had a kind of dinner date. Like go, sit stay three hours and enjoy that time. Probably since last year in Sicily. WOW.

Serrano tapas with the ceviche staring at me

Saturday, 7 February 2015: yes Saturday was great but freezing and we walked a bit too much or I don't know, in any case I spent the next day sleeping practically under layers of blankets in bed until 7 pm. This meant almost skipping dinner and especially, missing the first Berlinale of the year - it would have been the premiere in the Berlinale Palast of Ixcanul. BUT, R. cooked for us rice with vegetables and curry and then we head over to Les cousins fous to celebrate my belated birthday with some friends.
Sunday, 8 Februray 2015: as a great closing day for the birthday week we spent the whole day at the Berlinale and had a cheese burger with fries in between at Potsdamer platz. We watched two beautiful and moving documentaries The look of silence and Ueber die Jahre for a total of around 5 hours. To the discussione with Joshua Oppenheimer after The look of Silence took part also Werner Herzog, interruptig him the whole time, but stil. HERZOG!

It was such a full week, and ending it with a day inside cinemas was the best idea we could have had.