Welcome to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Berlin

You have landed at the blog of the ex-pat Berlin blogger rootberlin. Should you decide to continue, you will have chosen of your own free will to experience my personal therapy sessions. My plan is to exit the house in good spirits every day so I need to leave the complaining at home. As I don't want to come home to it, I am going to blog it and put it out there in cyberspace - still accessible should I want to revisit my rantings but not cluttering my flat (nor, hopefully, my head)!

Berlin is a fascinating city of extremes. Extreme reasons to love Berlin and extreme reasons to hate Berlin. I refer to Berlin as my personal heroin. She is addictive, she causes euphoric highs and she smashes me down ruthlessly - sometimes simultaneously - and I cannot stop nor do I want to stop the process.

Each entry will be a rant and a compliment. I am forcing myself to write a good thing about Berlin for every rant that I want to shout. There is plenty to compliment Berlin on, I am therefore requiring myself to identify at least one positive for Berlin for each negative I find worthy of publishing. I cannot leave Berlin. I have to find my peace with her.

I hope you enjoy my therapy! Comments on my complaints, my compliments as well as my therapy are, at this point, welcome. Let's see if anybody cares enough to comment.