Sampling Berlin's Flea Markets
On Sunday we finally found the time to visit two of Berlin’s best-known flea markets. The first was a smaller and better-curated flea market at Arkonaplatz, which is in Mitte or Prenzlauerberg, depending on who you ask. We also walked a few blocks north to the massive market in Mauerpark. This one offered rows upon…
On Sunday we finally found the time to visit two of Berlin’s best-known flea markets. The first was a smaller and better-curated flea market at Arkonaplatz, which is in Mitte or Prenzlauerberg, depending on who you ask. We also walked a few blocks north to the massive market in Mauerpark. This one offered rows upon rows of vendors selling everything from guitars to socks. Right next door in the park, there was a rock band playing in a stone amphitheater. Quite a scene.
I hate flea markets, no matter where they are located.
Berlin is not diverse; I’m canceling my trip.
I lived in berlin in early 90’s. It was lacking in NYC skin”color” diversity but it made up for it a different type. I found that the color came from the dazed east germans, the eastern European countries, Turks, Russian, Kurdish(between borscht and Kurdish stews –yummm ), Egyptians..Irish. (oh, and Germans).etc.
What I didn’t liked was the extended gray winter sky..
I bought some random German Super NES game in Mauerpark last summer….it was awesome
Berlin has a pretty hopping art scene — this according to my German artist/photographer friend — I haven’t been there.
Re Brooklyn Flea, I said this yesterday, but I am not liking it. There is too much vintage clothing and jewelry and food and not enough “brownstone” related things — i.e. antique housewares, art, ceramics, salvage, furniture. Just freaking clothes, clothes, clothes, and hand made jewelry and old costume jewelry. And clothes, did I mention clothes? I found a couple of things there for the time it’s been there but generally very disappointing.
The Bearpit Karaoke in the Mauerpark draws a larger audience than most Live Nation concerts. And the food has gotten better: there’s now a grilled fish guy, and the gozlems are a good grab. But in the summer, with the onslaught of two-year tourists, the crowd can be pretty oppressive. Still, now that they’ve decided to build condos atop No-Man’s-Land, who knows how many years we’ll have left to enjoy it?
Hm. Interesting that diversity is an issue here. Being an Asian woman, all I care is that no one showers me with in-your-face racism. Didn’t have that in Berlin. Had it in spades in Spain and Italy.
well ok 11217, diverse for a German city at least. I lived there after living in Munich and it felt pretty dang diverse…but guess thats not saying much
…and with this visit, you can now write off the trip as a business expense: “Conducted market (no pun intended) research.”