24 Hrs in Berlin. Bike, Borstj und Beer.

3 weeks ago I was invited by @aaronkoenig to speak at BXB meetup in Berlin.

^{Telling about the diversity of Steemit content by showing some of the speakers of SteemFest (pic by @film-editor)}

Albeit being quite (to say the least) busy with SteemFest it was an honour and also a great way to go back to Berlin, a city which stole my heart ages ago when I used to work for TodaysArt Festival and we had annual trips to Club Transmediale Festival.

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I arrived yesterday after 6.5hrs train ride with intermittent 4g/3g/edge/No Service connection and I decided to hire a bike. I had never done that before actually, and was a nice alternative to the U-bahn. I decided to try and visit the Reichstag, but the great Chapel / Kupel was closed for cleaning purposes, so again no luck. I really want to visit and see that architecture one day.

Then I did a small Brandenburger Tor bike-through and buying an Ampelmanchen gift (beanie) for our babyboy, before heading to Kreuzberg and having a coffee, and actually buying some gloves for myself! Because cold it was. I continued my ride, after I discovered internet was supercrappy, to the actually venue of the BXB Meetup: Oak & Ice in Prenzlauer Berg. Here I met with @aaronkoenig who was having an interview with ARD Teevision. Oak & Ice served nice coffee's, illegal beer after closing time and borstj (sour soup popular in several Eastern European cuisines) as the owners of the place are from Poland.

^{My rental bike & Brandenburger Tor}

The meeting/talks iself, the BXB Meetup, was very nice. After Andreas' Avalon Life presentation, I did a short talk about SteemFest and Steem in general. @aaronkoenig wrote a nice report about it and I just wanted to add my slides for anyone interested:

^{(might be not so interesting without the talk)}

After nice chats with fellow Steem user @juanmiguelsalas and some Paulaner's it was time to hit my hostel across the street. I received room number 13. And yes some bad luck it was indeed. My private room was shared with another bedbunk room, which happen to be inhabited by 4 english youngster girls, having the time of their life, being in Berlin and such. So up till 1 AM they where discussing their recent ventures, but when I asked whether I could borrow some earplugs from them (which they didn't have) they thankfully turned down the music and their voices :) And I actually could sleep for about 8 hours straight... #winning!

^{Epic hostel room decorations :P}

And now I'm back in the train to Amsterdam, tomorrow visiting a talk called 'Reinvent Money' in Delft, NL! @aaronkoenig and BXB Meetup group, thanks for having me!

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