Cafe Ponte CarloA popular daytime hangout for the tenants of the various crazy-factories on Rungestraße, Berlin. Everyone loves Gambi, the Italian owner who has let's call it "diverse" taste in music that blasts in the cafe from a home-made music system that resembles a pile of laptops and cables. Black metal, ballroom, Frank Sinatra, country-western. You name it. He surfs between four languages during the hour, at the moment there is a young French woman waitressing the lunch crowd. Today, Gambi was talking on Skype with someone in Italian. He had no headphones so he used the speaker system and the entire cafe was listening to the conversation at normal volume over the theme song to "Austin Powers," I think it was.
It went on for twenty minutes.
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Nobi in der Großen Freiheit. Two blocks from Beatles Platz, Hamburg.
The historic house from 1772 a spit away from the Reeperbahn.
And you hear the ruckus at night.
I'll be crashing here until Saturday.
The historic house from 1772 a spit away from the Reeperbahn.
And you hear the ruckus at night.
I'll be crashing here until Saturday.