What does a guy like you wanna do there?

I once went to an exhibition in that mosque wich is in the same place i'm moving to.Can you see me?

Looks like an opening scene for some pretentious gangster movie.

The city I live in... at the turn of the century.

It's a supermarket.

I realize this, but the lonesome suitcase, the dull grey vibe, the obvious UK setting, all makings for superb pretentious gangster film.

dull grey vibe? that looks like a beautiful day for england. it gets a lot duller and greyer than that. look, theres some blue in the sky.

And you wouldn't want to walk around there at night,i tell you.

dizzie rascal was born and lives round the corner so i can't complain.I-I-I LUV YOU I LUV YOU!

whats this building?are you in berlin? its not koepi is it?

If I remember correctly, the above building is on Friedrich str., very near to Oranienburger Tor U-bahn...

oh dear what?

nAAATHING.I must have walked past your house a million times.Some of the shops along there look like they never open.

well anyoee who lives in east london has probably been past my house many times as it is situated on a main road right by a busy junction

its tacheles which is the most established squat in berlin. that buuilding comprises a beach, several bars, art gallery, bands and three cinema's. its not as good as it used to be though its turned into a tourist attraction and place where drunk english football hooligans go.

iain is right but you can also get to it from oraienburgerstrasse.

theres another squat that looks very similar, my mate used to live there and i spent a week stating there in the dead of winter a few years ago.
its on koeperniker(sp?) strasse in kreuzberg (sp again?) , hence the name koepi.
it wasnt a nice place to stay. the people were pretty miserable, there was a very bad vibe in that place, very bitter people. i did go to another squat to see a kraut rock band called embryo which had much more of a warm hippy vibe going on. cant remember which part of berlin it was in but the gig was amazing.
i thought the pic you posted was a view from the back or something. i didnt do alot of exploring while i was there. i spose alot of old buildings in berlin look pretty similar. it is an amzing building though.

it used to be a jewish department store until the 30's when it was wrecked by the nazi's. after the war a lot of buildings were never renovated on the eastern side due to lack of money and when the wall came down these became squats, hence the reason there are so many in berlin.

i'm currently living here.. but moving to this nice street: