Posts tagged with:berlin

Some time ago i found myself talking with heads of a investment fund looking for opportunities to invest in the Romanian internet. Aside my legendary gloom and discomfort with the way things are going in this industry, we tried to find unconquered niches to exploit (please remember this was a 2010 discussion, some things may […]

So, last night we were out drinking. Some German guys, some French guys and me, the Romanian kid. We go to some German place to eat, we eat and then we go to a bar. We have some drinks and then Pascal sees the cute geek-looking German girl sitting at the bar. So he says […]

I will be attending IFA in Berlin again. On the 4th I will be at the Bloggers Forum in salon4/5, wearing a brown “no one cares about your blog” t-shirt. I hope it will be better than last year, because that one sucked. And I hope more time to play with gadgets.

Well, in my German class, we are a wild bunch. There’s us two, one French, one Chinese, one Saudi, one newzellanden (I think this is the way it’s spelled), one Swede, one Canadian and one Uzbekistani an. All different. All liking Berlin. The French girl was telling me Berlin is a better city to be […]

I was there an hour ago when Mr. Leonard Cohen sang the verse above. And a chill came down my spine when the people of Berlin shouted the name of the city. It was a great concert, a great singer, some great songs for some great fans. O2 held about 20.000 people that witnessed the […]

How do you tell an Englishman that you do not speak German on the streets of Berlin? In French, of course.

Took me half an hour to rent a car. No sites, no usability, no English, no cars, no car details… How do you want to rent a car to foreigners if you do not have a website in English? And why do you send me the order details in German?

A few minutes, on Kreuzstrasse, right across Victoriapark, we saw a small fox. At first we thought it was a dog, but getting closer, we saw the long tail and the red skin. Weird seeing a fox in the middle of a big city. A few months ago, we saw some rabbits in a park […]

Today at IFA I had the pleasure of listening to Robert Scoble speak in a panel about German and American Bloggers. It was weird somehobw, because he did not say nothing i did not knew and his presenting style is not so flashy (as oposed to Hugh McLeod, for example). I listened to some German […]

In Romania, public drinking is prohibited. And in the center of the cities is strictly enforced. Is tolerated in the back of the streets, in poor neighborhoods. On football games, all the shops near the stadium stop selling alcohol. It’s a shock for a Romanian to see so many people just having a drink in […]