Just Döner... oder was?

Can there be any more fulfilling moment in life than tucking into a Döner Kebab late at night? Well, I'm pretty sure there can be. Your wedding day for example, or the birth of your first child. Perhaps even your first century opening the batting.

Those things are all great obviously - but can you have them with three types of sauce? Don't answer that. In Berlin Döner joints there are three standard toppings you see - yoghurt, garlic and spicy. Everyone has their favourite. I'm a yoghurt man myself, but I can see the appeal of combining garlic and spicy.

The meteoric rise to fame of the shawarma has made me have second thoughts though... It's in pita bread you see, and the meat seems to be a little more, well, meat-like. But one thing you don't get in a shawarma shop is that crazy Döner atmosphere. Just check out the number of guys behind the counter at Prime Kebab at Ostbahnhof.

Spring is in the air.

I try not to talk about the weather in Berlin, it always seems so irrelevant to the inhabitants. Whereas your average Englishman could start 20+ conversations in one day with a remark about the weather, most Berliners tend to find such comments useless and interpret it as an attempt to ask for money. But, anyway, the fact is inescapable: the snow is now apparently gone for good. And that deserves a mention.

The people are outside, the dogs are pooing on the pavement and the parking police are out booking cars again. In fact, some guy in Wedding was so excited about it all, he decided to just bust out and take his couch out to the tram stop. Whether he actually spent time sitting there waiting for the tram or whether it was just a good-natured gesture to the people of Berlin, we will never know. Either way, it's definitely my number one spring time photo.