No Public Transportation

During the week I usually head over to my guy's place for dinner and a sleep over. Which is exactly what I did yesterday with the dog in tow.
Phillip, the hound dog, is a chicken and scared of everything. He does not like riding Public at all, so, I opted for hoofing it!
It is 5.8km, that's 3.6miles! (I googled it) It took us about an hour and 20 minutes. It was a straight shoot more or less but long, and full of obsticales. Pedestrians, bikes, cars, and millions and trillions of things that needed to be sniffed.

A fourth of the way there crossing over the canal.

The U1 to Warschauerstraße, heading over the Bridge.

Crossing the River Spree under the train tracks, 2/3rds of the way there.

The Berlin skyline from the bridge

 We made it safe and sound. Phillip was so tired that as soon as he was given a comfy place to lay out we didn't hear from him till the next day.
Then the next morning we retraced our footsteps all the 5.8kms home.

This time I opted for off leash,(except when crossing busy streets) it was easier then I thought it would be.

This is the same bridge we crossed the evening before but we were in the area underneath the red bricked section. It looks cooler from outside. You can't see much coming from the other side.

The bridge is right next to the beginning of the East Side Gallery, a preserved section of the Wall that has been painted by many artists over the years.

It was a good walk, I learned a little bit more about how my city is connected. I had been to a few of the places I past but never knew they were connected in such a way. It is completely different to walk from place to place then to sit in Public and pop out at different spots on the map. I am wondering what other areas to explore this week while I have the dog for a walking buddy. Cuz Lord knows no one else will.

Doggy-sitting and Allmende Kontor

I am Babysitting Phillip this week.

He is the Family Dog of the Toddler I babysit

So for our morning walk we went out to Tempelhof, the Retired Airport that was the location of the Berlin Airlift. It has been open to the public a little over a year now to be used as a park and location for events.

All over Berlin people walk with their dogs off leash, well most do. Though techniqually it is not allowed. 

List of Notices (aka rules): Mandatory Lead Policy, bummer!

There are a few nice sized dog runs fenced off around the grounds. We only made it to one, the rectangle shaped one, this time. But we still had plenty of fun!!

 FUN in action!

Sniffing out the vermin. . .

that is one big rabbit hole!!

Then we investigated what was going on in the area next to the BBQ grounds.

It was a little makeshift village of container gardens.  

Turns out this area has been designated for a community garden. It is named 'Allmende Kontor,' the medieval term for community garden. It's really cool! Here is an article about it from the Huffington Post.

Compost Bin, nice . . .

Anti Nuclear Energy Flag

Though the area is a little dodgy looking, don't let it get to you because the plants are growing very well in their containers. There was really full heads of lettuce and greens, way better then what my Balcony Garden has been looking like.  Jealous much? Totally! I would add more pictures but blogger is being difficult and not loading them. poo. . anyway . .

Maybe this is something I can do next year. It is so close to my apartment and it would definitely beat my balcony garden!

German Language Websites of organizers: 

Rübezahl Gemeinschaftsgarten

Allmende Kontor