Jules and I spent our Monday meandering through Kreuzberg, looking for our chosen Kulturbingo location: Galerie Open. We passed a lot of Halal and falafel places on our way, as well as the ubiquitous signs for Berliner-Kindl beer, and generally took it pretty slow as we were walking towards our destination. The feeling of the neighborhood changed drastically as we started to move into the more residential areas further from the U-Bahn, but the architecture and the layout of the buildings remained about the same. It began to get much quieter, less crowded, the buildings and doorways less covered in quickly-scrawled tags and peeling stickers, and the shops fewer and farther between. It still felt very lively but in a more subdued, domestic manner. As we followed the blue line on my phone leading us to our destination we took the time to grab a beer from a corner store and eventually came within site of the small park and pond that were shown in front of the gallery on the map, which was ringed on all sides by a road and shops, laid out in a manner similar to a cul-de-sac, with the park in the center, lowered beneath the level of the street surrounding. As google told us that we had arrived at our destination, though, Galerie Open was nowhere to be seen, and in its place stood a fancy boutique clothing store. Jules was less quick to give up than I, and decided to ask the people in the shop where we might be able to find this mystery gallery, and we were disappointed to find that it was now “Galerie Closed”. Nonetheless, it was a lovely day spent wandering through an area we had yet to experience, and we ended our adventure with a couple of consolation drinks at an interesting bar nearby.