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Autumn seems to have arrived in Germany already, bringing along its more unpleasant aspects such as dreary weather and cool rain. Therefore, the plans of our Berlin community (who now meet regularly every last Thursday of the month) to bid August a fond farewell with a picnic outside on the 28th of August were unfortunately thawarted; however, the InterNations members gathering around Friedrich Rojahn (a regular at these events, taking over for our poor Ambassador Isabel von Kap-herr, who’d suddenly become ill) didn’t let their bad luck spoil their mood. Instead, various expats from Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Great Britain, India, Morocco, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the USA as well as locals from Berlin all expressed a keen interest in meeting up for an excellent cocktail at Victoriabar, a bohemian retro-style hang-out in the Schöneberg neighbourhood; they enjoyed their time indoors every bit as much as the open-air event originally planned. The last ‘die-hard’ party-goers left at two o’clock in the morning in search for a near-by club for the rest of the night…

(Christina, thank you for sending us your photos!)

Filed under: InterNations News on September 1st, 2008