Shopping in the sun

I enjoyed browsing Berlin in the sun yesterday, first doing some shopping around Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz (lots of tulips to decorate the flat, among others) and browsing the fleamarkets and second hand shops in Schöneberg, then on with Hanne to Winterfeldtmarket and further to the "Castle" (Schloss), a mall in Steglitz. She took one of my many spring jackets, we both got great t-shirts at Goltzstraße (Nicowa, 7 Euro - dead cheap), and finally I never found a bikini, but she bought four pairs of shoes. (!)
Quite a few shops are closing down around my kiez (check here what it was like this January), like my favourite newspaper and cd place and the new flower shop (lasted only six months, the bookstore that had been there before only 12, some places are doomed), and some new ones open up. "Starbucks" will be here at the busstop on the sunny side of Hauptstraße/Akazienstraße, soon I will be able to sit in the sun and enjoy a starbucks coffee (yuk).
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz will be looking lovely again after renovating for more than a year. It will even have a fountain! Hopefully it will all be ready by July (read more here).
Hertie has changed a lot: Debenham's took over, and now it's totally into british lifestyle and women's fashion, designed by John Rocha, f.e. Schöneberg is one of three places in Germany where this new concept is starting. Lovely! I don't have to go to London now to buy London fashion!
Today it's off to the fleamarket in Berlin Tiergarten, and then looking for cats at the local animal home. It used to be in Lankwitz, just a short busride away, but they grew and moved, and now it takes me two hours to get there by bus and tram and train. It's faster to get to the animal farm in Stuttgart, by plane and car!
But still: It would be nice to have two cats meeowing at me when I come home, purring to get some food and hugs. Anna chose two brothers on their website, Gustav and Garribald. If they're nice, and I find neighbours to take over when I'm travelling, I'll get them. :)