August 2015
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On Expat Entitlement
This was going to be a post about how shitty customer service is in Germany. We’ve all heard about, or experienced, things like: surly bar service, valuable deliveries that dropped off the grid without a trace, unanswered emails, ignored tweets, blah blah blah… …it all started, as it so often does, with an undelivered package.…
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Doggystyle: Paco and Damen
“Damen is an Amstaff (American Staffordshire Terrier) and he’s five years old. It’s too hot for him in summer, but he’s still happy. He loves to swim.”
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Is writing about whether Berlin is “over” over?
by Katrin Strohmaier. So Berlin is over. We’ve heard, read and – let’s be honest – said it ourselves on numerous occasions: while we were standing in line for two hours last time we wanted to go to that open air club that only a year ago was still an insiders’ tip; when we went…
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Berlin Moments: July 27th – August 8th
Berlin Moments is a weekly collection of our favourite photos from our favourite city! Unless otherwise stated, all photos are by Zoë Noble. To be featured, just tag your photos with #uberlinmoments on Twitter and Instagram, and we’ll include our favourites in our weekly roundup.
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On blogging: Why we turned off comments
The more observant of you will have noticed that we’ve turned off comments here on überlin. Maybe you found you couldn’t enter a competition, because I’d forgotten to turn comments back on in those rare cases where we still allow them. Perhaps you were particularly incensed by the latest thing this expat/hipster/douchebag/gentrifier/all-of-the-above had written. Or…