A jolly good time....

 was had by all at Stephane's photo show held

 at our swanky little corner barber shop, SOOKIE's.

LONG LIVE THE MUSTACHE!

Below is the link to the interview Stephane did on the local news culture segment. (Stef's is the 2nd clip about 2 minutes into the segment.) World famous in Caen....

http://basse-normandie.france3.fr/2013/04/24/locb-du-24-avril-les-10-ans-du-carre-du-perche-et-une-expo-photo-chez-un-barbier-240593.html

Spring is finally here!

Yes that's right...

it was over 20° here last weekend for our visit to Falaise.

 So we streched our legs and checked out the neighborhood.

The castle in Falaise. 

This and That

 The interior of a German bank.

A daycare's roof top play area in a building we visited.

A club with tons of individual light bulbs in the ceiling. I thought of Jeff...

The Holocaust Memorial

We took a break from  driving our Trabants and had a bratwurst.

A cool mosaic.

Assume the ad is for beer 

but would love to be able to read it!

The trolls have arrived.

Below are the postcards which were just too good to mail....

Fine looking 70's men...

Geez, I didn't know Stephane looked soo good in white!

The Wall

 A miniscule glimsp of the 1. 3 km section of the Berlin Wall,

 known as The East Side gallery. More than 105 artists participated in the paintings.

Trabant

The Trabant was produced in
former East Germany starting in 1958.

Praised as having room for four people plus luggage in the trunk.

 Plus a light and durable shell.

 Look close ! Stephane is driving the powder blue two door.

 Did I mention it was a two stroke engine? 

We even got a German drivers license...

Street Art & Graffiti

I learned the father of modern graffiti 

is a guy named "Cornbread" from Philadelphia. 

I learned there are only 33 members of

 the Berlin graffiti task force charged with enforcing the entire city. 

I learned this piece was done for the 2006 World Cup.

I learned the artist who did the dog below

 is a French girl named Paulette.

I learned the graffiti task force once used

 helicopters to try to catch taggers in the act.

This vacant lot /squat had the perfect view for these two gigantic pieces.

No kidding, this was spray painted at the entrance 

There is a lot of  graffiti in Berlin. Lots and lots, loads.

We even got a chance to do our own.

At The Urban Spree (as seen above) 

 expo space/cultural center.  

The Italian graffiti guy giving the presentation.

positioning the stencil on the canvas

et voilia!

 the finished products

Stephane's Berlin TWO TIMES

And amazingly,

 I avoided getting paint on myself or anyone else.