Free opera and open air exhibition

Free activities only available in December:
 
The "Deutsche Oper" in Charlottenburg (Bismarckstraße 35, U-Bhf "Deutsche Oper" U2) offers free events every day from Monday to Friday at 17.00h with their "Adventskalender". The shows are 20 minutes long and vary from music to talks if you click HERE you can check out the calender. On weekends are no shows but therefore you can win tickets for a variety of events.

Another free thing would be to visit the "Edvard Munch" open air exhibition at Potsdamer Platz.

I haven't checked it out myself - but definately going to. Edvard Munch btw was living in Berlin in the 1890's.

Yesterday, December 1st - I went to see how the Norwegian Christmas tree at Pariser Platz was turned on - after the famous Norwegian Singer Thomas Dybdahl was giving a mini concert which was very nice.

Who says playgrounds are only for kids?

DAY 24


Aktivity: Spielplatz - on our way to the cake-shop we passed the playground at Zickenplatz (if you walk down Kottbusser Damm from U-Bahnhof Schönlein Straße (U8) towards Hermannplatz the playground is on the right side). You can balance on turning car wheels, do some pull-ups, climb a wall and a net and a lot of other things:-)

Food:

Breakfast: 1 Brötchen from the funny Brötchen I made the other day

Lunch: We made some mushroom risotto which I gave my boyfriend for his birthday along with a enamel-casserole from Riess, an austrian company which still produces their cookware in Europe. Also the cookware definately doesn't contain any toxic substances as maybe teflon or steel... and of course pots and pans are super pretty - please check HERE if you want to see more.

Dinner: Leftover risotto


Transportation: Feet

Total spendings today: 3 Brötchen for 0,15€ and a piece of cake for 0,65€ = 0,80€

Berlin in the 1920's

DAY 23

Aktivity:

Once again we went to the movie theater "Sputnik" at U-Bahnhof Südstern. We collected our third stamp on our discount card - so now we only have to go one more time and then we can see a movie for free:-)
The movie of our choice was: Berlin - die Sinfonie der Großstadt, an experimental documentary by Walther Ruttmann which captures Berlin impressions in the year 1927. I super recommend to see that movie anyways but especially the version we saw: Tronthaim (an electronical Music Duo from Berlin) plays a new electronic soundtrack for the movie - and they do that live. Awesome I have to say!!!

They have a website where you can check when and where they are playing next. Please click HERE, they also show a little video so you can actually see if you might like it or not.


Food:

Breakfast: The parents were here for breakfast and they brought Brötchen - so free breakfast!

Lunch: I was making red cabbage to store it away, so I had red cabbage with Spätzle which I still had in the shelf and meat balls which I still had in the freezer from the meat which I bought at DAY 1.

I actually got 6 glasses full of red cabbage out of this cooking session. Making red cabbage is much easier than you think. You just need some onion, vinegar, wine, fat (butter or lard), apples if you want and some herbs. So I paid 2,00€ for the red cabbage which makes 0,33€ per glass which is very cheap compared to buying red cabbage in glasses - I believe a glass costs at least 0,89€ - woohooo!

Dinner: leftover Brötchen from breakfast



Transportation: Feet

Total spendings today: Tickets for the movie - special event: 12,00€ + 2 drinks 4,40€ (I believe)