View of Schönhauser Allee at the Kulturbrauerei, looking towards Mitte. On the left is the fence of the Kultubrauerei, in the distance you can see the silhouette of the Park Inn Hotel and the TV Tower, as well as the bell tower of the Herz Jesu church.

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At night on the empty Kastanienallee, looking north from the junction on the corner of Oderberger Straße towards Eberswalder Straße subway station. There can be quite a lot going on here during the day – and Kastanienallee is often quite lively at night too. But on this evening, a Thursday in early March, there was almost nothing going on. Also nice for a change.

View of the Friedrichstadt Palast from Reinhardtstraße. The colors may seem a little off – the camera on my iPhone12 Mini probably had a little difficulty capturing the Blue Hour. The result is a somewhat artificial-looking picture, but it captures the evening atmosphere with the glittering lights of the city quite well.

Winter has returned once again. It snowed for hours on end on Thursday – so not only were the trees, bushes, car roofs and footpaths covered in snow, but after a while the roads were too. A rather rare sight in Berlin.

Today the BVG is on strike again. Most buses, streetcars and subways will not run for 24 hours – from Monday, February 10, 3 am to Tuesday, February 11, 3 am. However, some buses, all S-Bahns and, as far as I know, ferries are running.

The streets are accordingly full: lots of cars, including a conspicuous high number of car-sharing vehicles are on the road – but of course also cyclists, e-scooters and pedestrians. And as today is also the first day of school after the winter break, the strike is hitting schoolchildren particularly hard.

After all, it’s “only” relatively cold with temperatures around freezing point – but it’s not raining. And it’s not particularly windy either. Well then – stay brave!