Day 8- back to class, Prinzessingarten, and beer education

Today was another excruciatingly hot day stuck in a classroom, but after class there was another cultural excursion to an “urban mobile garden” called the Prinzessingarten, or princess garden. It was very hip and trendy, but also a really neat use of the space that used to be an apartment building block that was destroying in WW2. What I found particularly amusing was how organized and tightly packed everything was, because the park has a very limited amount of space, with tall buildings on every side.

 I went to a similar sustainable fresh veggie garden-type thing in Montana a while ago (I think that was a trend in 2015ish?), and it was massive, sprawling, and not very organized. It’s always fun to see how cleverly people can use spaces, particularly when they don’t have much of it! Fun fact: the plants are all in crates because the ground is just rock and the ruins of the old apartment complex, so very little can actually grow in the dirt there.

After the garden I met a friend for a beer, and we walked around the Kreuzberg area, which is apparently known for it’s nightlife and being a fun place for young people. They also educated me about different Swiss beers, which was pretty fun. I learned I definitely do not enjoy wheat beer, and I definitely do enjoy this: