travelling short stops by the door

this weekend, among other things, i had to arrange the breaking of my mobile contract from home (which disabled the use of my new local SIM card until now). took me two hours since they could barely break into the system and at the Nth attempt only, so even the price was lowered. on my way there i was using the Bahn for a few stops and suddenly two people entered at the door I was standing at, and both shouted suddenly and simultaneously. the one´s pronouncement was MUSICA! while the other said FAHRKARTEN! - and in line with their announcements, the former started hitting his guitar and singing while the latter went around to check on our diligence to pay.

the rare switching of people in the zone of the Moon

almost a regular by now (this word sounds very German somehow, even in English...), have even made it to the office each day this week (ok, this is only the 3rd day yet and today i arrived in the early afternoon hours only, aber immerhin), i started to notice how uncommon my daily path to this place and back really is. i am basically travelling from kreuzberg´s core to one of the centers of what used to west berlin, so where i am switching lines each day there are only a handful of people doing the same.

this point also happens to be in the strip area, the one among several that feels like having arrived on the Moon.