Back in Berlin

After a couple of terrific days spent with Pauline I headed back to Berlin to see another friend Annegret, who is living and working in Berlin. We did some more sightseeing (there's so much to see!) and were just browsing around.

We went to a Thai take away restaurant and had dinner - I love Asian food and they are always so good at making gluten free alternatives! After that we wanted to go see a movie (in English) so we went to the biggest cinema in Berlin. Unfortunately the cinema was closed to the public because of a big premiere of "Männer Herzen", and all we got to see that evening was a big bunch of German movie stars on the red carpet - bummer.

My Berlin stay was ended in the best of ways, at a cafe - Eis voh! This is an ice cream cafe, but for all you gluten free people out there (and the rest of you as well of course) this place is not to be missed if you're in Berlin! I went there in hope of having maybe one or two gluten free cakes to choose from, Never I said NEVER had I expected to find what I did - a gluten free HEAVEN with.... wait for it.... 12 (!!!!) different kinds of cake all gluten free and organic. The slices were big and the price very good. The owners, an older couple, were very sweet and spoke English very well and they told me a lot about their cafe and I got to write in their guest book and all :) I will definitely go back here next time I'm in Berlin!!!

Check out their website, it's all in German, but you don't need to know the language to read the pictures :P http://www.bioeis-berlin.de/index.html

  

(The pictures are borrowed from Eis Voh's website.)

EisVoh
Bundesallee118
12161 Berlin

It's not exactly in the city centre, but the underground station is only a block or so away, and I've said it before - GO THERE!

Love Erika

Arriving in Germany

Last autumn I decided to go on a trip to visit some of the friends I made when I was an au pair in England. And as I promised before, here are some of my experienses from when I was travelling around in Germany and the Czech Republic. My trip lasted for more then three weeks, and altough I did all the travelling on my own I spent most days with my lovely friends!

Berlin was my first stop and I got there really early in the morning. Nothing really was open yet, so I sat down on a bench and ate my breakfast sandwiches that I had brought with me from home. After a while a coffee shop opened and I bought myself a cup of tea to go with my breakfast.

After 9 my dear friend Pauline came and we went around in Berlin doing some sightseeing, before we went to Bernau - a lovely little town outside Berlin - I loved it! Paulie had to go to work, but I stayed in Bernau to run some errands, important things like buying a German Sim-card and checking out the range of gluten free products.

I went to a supermarket EDEKA center close to a shopping mall. At first I had some difficulties in finding were in this big supermarket I could find what I was looking for. But then, a BIG shelf full of gluten free goodies! I filled my basket. Then I continued to look around in the shop and after a while I realised something that made me very happy, as a coeliac person, on the price tags there was a gluten free symbol on the products not containing gluten!!! VERY helpful to me who doesn't speak any German at all, especially when it came to sausages, yoghurts and other things where they might hide gluten. Why can't supermarkets have that everywhere?!??

Happy with my gluten free findings, I went to a cafe and had a coffee before I took the bus to Lobetal where Paulie and her family lives. I was shown to where I was staying, in an overnight apartment close to the church where Pauline's parents work, I was so tired I had to take a little nap.

I had a lovely home cooked gluten free dinner with Paulie and her family. When I went to bed that night I was dead tired, but very pleased with my trip so far!

To be continued...

Love Erika

Back in my home town...

Hi everybody!
I'm very sorry I haven't written anything lately, but there is not much going on at the moment... I've left Brighton an England and are now back in my home town in Sweden - where there is a lack of gluten free experiences. Sad, but true.


To make up for this I will try to give you some of my goodies that I've saved from before I started this blog, what do you say about hearing something about the time I spent in Ireland, the trip I took to Germany, or what I found in Prague? I might also tell you a bit about the cafe I've been in charge of during my home town's festival week :)


Love Erika