Revealing secrets: Where I spent the May Day

The end of the month is near - some pumpkin heads are ready to celebrate the end of the world...- I'm ready to tell a little shinny secret: where I spent the famous May Day...85% of me wanted to go to see the big fights. The historian temptation to be in the middle of the events. But my dear peaceful ones had had something else in their mind and politely invited me to a trip to Berlin's oldest village: Lübars. 

On this occasion I visited for the first time the lake area near Alt-Tegel, with Greenwich Promenade and the overcrowded icecream shops. From Alt-Tegel, you take a bus for another 20 minutes and you are there, at the old good green village. Flowers, green grass, interesting trees and an impressive number of tourists. Actually, I never in my life went through the woods and met so many people - and no, it wasn't scheduled any class trip. Bikes, dogs, children, families...Sometimes it was very hard to find a moment of silence. If you like horseriding - as I do - you can find here various options for long or short term classes and practice.

But, overall, the sun was burning and the people were smiling so decided that life is good and tasty and the decision to keep me away of the beating heart of the burning cars was good. 

The oldest habitat in Germany

Working class heroes

This was the Turkish variant of the May Day - with a special dedicated party, red colours, love for work. Found near Kleistpark.

May Day in Berlin

This is the third year of my Berlin life when I miss the May Day street demonstrations - and confrontations. Every year I was out of the city or tried to be as far as possible. I don't like the idea of fighting - "revolutionary ideas" are very far away of my poor bourgeoise mentality - simply for fighting and don't like either the anarcho-utopian militantism for an equal world of all of us, uttered by people benefiting of the social support of the state despite their refuse to work. 

Today, I was about to have the possibility to document live the 1st of May in East Berlin, but my sweet fate gave me the chance to miss such a journalistic opportunity so I stayed away of the red crowds. But I saw this announcement on the wall of a subway station, and noticed the presence of some police cars in some very lonely corner of the West Berlin. In my parcel of Berlin, life continues it's good track. Maybe will watch the news lately.