{"id":778,"date":"2009-08-17T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/?p=778"},"modified":"2024-04-26T05:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:29:40","slug":"arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"_mg_0145_gettingdirections\" src=\"http:\/\/peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0145_gettingdirections.jpg\" alt=\"_mg_0145_gettingdirections\" width=\"446\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0145_gettingdirections.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/_mg_0145_gettingdirections-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I arrive into Berlin at about midday, after a long 30 or 40km or so through its outer suburbs, trying to avoid major roads. I send a few emails , to arrange to pick up keys to the apartment I will be borrowing for the next 13 days. My phone has seized up since being rained on in Dresden as I hunted for a hostel.<br \/>\nDoze and read next to the canal.<br \/>\nI meet up with an old friend, Courtney, who has the keys, to 68 Manteuffel strasse, and we catch up over a Berliner beer.<br \/>\nThe apartment is beautiful, and I pass the evening in it, glad to have somewhere that briefly I can call &#8220;home&#8221;, thanks to Staf and Desh.<\/p>\n<p>So I will be in Berlin for a couple of weeks, until Caroline arrives here for a weekend, and then we go to London together. I really like this city already, but know its going to get a whole lot better once she is in it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrive into Berlin at about midday, after a long 30 or 40km or so through its outer suburbs, trying to avoid major roads. I send a few emails , to arrange to pick up keys to the apartment I will be borrowing for the next 13 days. My phone has seized up since being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterstenhouse.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}