Shteyngart on ‘New Berlin’: It’s ‘Easily Europe’s Coolest Metropolis’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 07.30.08 | 12:29 PM ET
Yet “it’s still okay to be excited by things” there, writes Absurdistan author Gary Shteyngart in a fine story in the latest Travel + Leisure.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Elyse 07.30.08 | 4:54 PM ET
I like the bit about being reprimanded by some indignant young mom if you cross the street at a red light. Germans always seem to wait until the light goes green, even if it’s the middle of the night and no cars are on the street. I don’t get it.