Want­ing to be out­side in the sum­mer (on a note: I stepped out­side today and I wanted to let you know that sum­mer is over and we can finally go back to eight more months of dark­ness and bit­ter cold!) and want­ing the con­veni­ence of cold drinks and a kit­chen and a toi­let at the same time is usu­ally dif­fi­cult to achieve. And while we aren’t stingy when it comes to life in gen­eral, pay­ing an entrance fee every time we want to “hang out” just doesn’t feel right.

So Mar­cus and his flat­mates came up with a make­shift bal­cony in front of their build­ing. It’s par­tic­u­larly excit­ing because we get to sit on one of the live­li­est streets in Kreuzberg, but not really on it. People love to wave to us when they pass by and more often than not, friends come around to hang around with us, to drink with us, to eat with us up there. I’m not sure if it’s legal to mis­use the con­struc­tion scaf­fold, but nobody’s com­plained so far. And what can I say? This is bet­ter than any detached-from-the-world bal­cony. Lucky we caught a few sun­rays before winter struck again… (if you haven’t noticed, I’m truly bit­ter about the weather. What the fuck!).