I’s gonna get hot tonight at the Gürtel - the “Volksstimme-Fest” does not take place this year, and the mile will be overcrowded. I have already prepared myself and showed up at several places along the mile yesterday night. It was cosy as usual at the rhiz, my preferred Gürtel bar. The Chelsea was no fun, which is not surprising - I never liked this bar (except for watching English football). But I was eager to see the b72. I haven’t been there since the last New Year’s party when I was witness of some fraternizations between bar officials and bad guys that were grabbing women all night long. I then decided not to go there for a while. Yesterday I felt my boycott has to come to an end. During the last half year the crowd has turned much younger. The music is more mainstream now. Still, it was fun dancing, although I definitely was one of the oldies. I even fell in love with a woman (of my age) spontaneously, but when I told her, she was convincing me that her boyfriend is much stronger than me. So I kept dancing. (Just to tell you the end of my romance: Around 5 a.m. I was meeting her again at a Würschtelstand. Her “boyfriend” turned out to be her brother, I accepted that she tricked me and went home.) And tonight?