Spending the week cat-, dog-, and housesitting with my ex-dog Max (and a cat, whom he is jealous of, and later another four weeks.
4 February: First, a failed photo of the full moon just before it set:
Went on to checking out the nearby forest and “ehemaliger Schießplatz”, a lovely area in Erpetal where dogs are allowed to run off-line. Not as long a walk as I had wanted to do today but Max seems tired after running about five times the distance that I walked. Here is where we were. We will definitely go back very often. A couple of photos – not from the Schießplatz which is quite a large, open space.
5 February: Max is lucky to have a number of frequent visitors in the trees outside the windows of his new home. However, he does not seem to appreciate it. I am hoping for some better photos later, with more practise.
6 February: With Max’s longer mid-day walk taken care of by his new local dogwalker, I went to Friedrichshagen to take a look at Bölschestraße – a very nice street with shops, cafés and restaurants – and an Alnatura – my preferred eco-supermarket – after spending some time plodding around the relatively unspoilt area by Müggelsee on the other side of the Spreetunnel. Here is the route on MapMyWalk. Total distance walked on this day 14 km.
Snuck in a street photo – I know I should not, but I could not resist that impressive beard:
Back in the flat, I was happy to spot this Eurasian Jay in one of the trees outside the windows:
9 February: Another day out with the dogwalker for Max, so I went to take a look at Altstadt Köpenick. Hmm. The best thing to say about it is that it is surrounded by a lot of water. But they have done nothing to exploit that fact and it is actually nowhere near as attractive as it could have been. I am hoping that later in spring and summer it will turn out to be nicer and I will discover that it is more conducive to outdoor city life than meets the eye in winter. There are two or three cafés that look really nice, but with no outdoor seating space, and nowhere near a waterfront. I stopped for a cuppa in Café Milchkaffee, and will stop there again, given the opportunity.
