Summer feeling

Isn't it great to wake up early in the morning, sun shining brightly through the windows, blue sky, warm already, and getting even better whilst you're sipping your coffee, reading the local newspaper and/or mails to find out what to do this lovely day!
Time for bathing season to start, like on the swimming pool at Spree close to my office (click pic to see better). It's the red brick building to the right of the second bridge.
Work is going smoothly. I applied to an international meeting on longtime archives in Frankfurt, was invited and booked a room in a colourful hotel near the main station. I had been there quite often in the late 90s when working with the trade union artists, it seems to have changed and improved a lot since then.
First calls with longtime collegues outside ver.di yesterday to tell them I'm back and ready for some new projects we'll do or at least start this year, and first meetings with more friends to start my Berlin evening program: besdies swimming and hopefully hiking and biking soon, it's choir singing, to name just one that will start next tuesday (Chor Märkisches Ufer) and thursday ("IG Peng", a trade union choir in Friedenau). Rehearsals are planned as well already, one in St Hedwig's cathedral on June 21st, the day of the "Fete de la musique".
No meeting any HC-members last week, neither Mika from Helsinki and the German-finnish-society, nor Gabi and her guests at "Union Jack", the "Gilmartin Potter Band" with new songs of their cd they had done in Cologne recently. I was too tired in the evenings to see anybody - couchpotatoe for a change to regain some energy -, but Hanne will come this morning for a look through my wardrobe (hopefully taking away a few of my jackets I don't wear anymore for reasons I have no clue about), and a walk to Winterfeldt market.
Oh, by the way: I got a great jacket at "Humana" yesterday, even bargained and paid less. It's by Blacky Dress, a shining black, with a huge pleated collar, and just perfect for international meetings! :)