We wandered to Nollendorfplatz the other day, and it’s so great in the Winter time with lights everwhere, it gives a cosy feel that makes me prefer being out in the darkness of the night than seeing the grey and sluggish day’light’. Opposite the station I noticed a ticket shop. I wondered for a minute if it was actually in business as there seemed to be a blockade of posters, flyers, magazines and other things inside, against the door. How do they get in? The shop was generally messy looking but in an inviting and laid-back, what I find very Berliner, way, and sweet looking, in particular with the big heart on the shop window. A side note on the word window – reading yesterday about origins of words in different European languages, etc, I found out that the English word window heralds from the Old Norse vinauga meaning the wind’s eye. Fascinating, and slightly unsettling – is the wind spying on us?
Heart Shop
So I guess the fact that there is a plugged-in and litted heart implies that the shop is being used. I will walk over there at regular opening times and have a look. On the way home, on Motzstraße, we enjoyed the square by the Victoria-Luise-Platz of which the middle was covered by a strobe coupole that faded into different colours uninterruptedly. A few steps down on the streets there was another intriguing shop that must have been the ones comissioned to create the light-coupole.
Light Shop
Berlin has such a great selection of interesting shops that you stumble upon in every corner of the city.
