Around Friedrichshain, Boxhagener Platz, Berlin, with COVID-19 lockdowns easing a bit…

May 30

Walk around Friedrichshain, Berlin. There was also a market set up for the weekend, where I bought a spinach/feta type of wrap and some sort of sweet cake with apple and meringue.

  • Bronze (?) plates they place in front of homes of Jews that were deported to Auschwitz by the #Nazi
  • A spinach and feta type wrap from a stall (in front is the very busy park)
  • Friedricshain street
  • A store selling face masks
  • A collection of water cans at a cemetery

May 28:

I recently moved apartments to Mitte and decided to spend an hour or two walking around Boxhagener Platz. I don’t usually come here, and I might have only been through Boxhagener Platz properly once during the day, a couple of times at night. Boxhagener Platz etched into my mind as to what Berlin is like for my first time moving here early 2017 and I am a bit disappointed that it took a few years and a move to do the stroll around.

You can see from the photos some remnants – limitations of a few people only inside the store and one must wear mouth/nose coverings inside. I grabbed a macaron and an ice cream, the ice cream place like the other places during the restrictions had a small table outside for you to order.

The business owners look relaxed and relieved, not stressed, people cautiously outside. Not completely normal but getting close to it.

The restaurants are also open now, at least a majority of it, some seating arrangements being made to make sure that there are less crowds. I am not sure how things are going to be like when the travel borders open between the EU countries. Right now, we’re at a wait and see moment but I have a lot of trust that the right things will be done by everyone.