Another quote…
There are moments in Berlin night life when it would be nice be a native English speaker, just to be able to appreciate all the nuances. Like when a Swede and a Spaniard who have just met in Watergate and shared a taxi to Alexanderplatz talk about how great they think Berlin is: ‘I fucking love this city.’ Or shortly afterwards in the lift when a Dutch guy who lives in London gets talking to a Norwegian girl, and she’s there with a friend who just moved to London. While they’re attempting to explain all of this - they do have fifteen floors to travel - another Norwegian chips in, telling the Dutch guy that, should he ever travel to Norway, he mustn’t go to Bergen as it’s incredibly boring.. Then we reach the top. The door opens and the lift operator lests everyone out. On his way out of the lift, a guy in his late twenties who sounds as if he might come from Australia, and who has been listening to his companions’ conversation the whole way, says, ‘Norway, Norway - that’s the country with the fjords, right?’
Tobias Rapp, Lost and Sound: Berlin, Techno and the Easyjet Set
