WELCOME TO NOWKOELLN FLOWMARKT!
One of the most trendy
hipster place I've ever been in my whole life. Let's say that I am just average girl who is definitely not stylish and fashionable and suddenly I came to one of the coolest city in the world (Berlin) and BAM! stranded in the middle of a land where there are so many stylish people. I felt alienated.
Actually I really have no idea why I decided to go to that place. It's just I woke up in the moning and it's sunny outside and I thought it's gonna be great idea to spend your day in Berlin instead of hibernating in lovely Cottbus. Plus I have never been to flohmarkt before. So visiting this flohmarkt, i thought,
would be a great idea.
Well, this flohmarkt, it is, a very good place for people, who so fucking stylish and un-mainstream to buy something. There are so many cool stuff I must say, but for me those stuff are too expensive for second-hand stuff. I mean, for a vintage leather satchel bag which costs like 50 euro or something will be a reasonable price for some people. It's vintage, it's leather, and it's satchel! you will look extremly fashionable with that bag, really. But for me, 50 euro vintage second-hand bag is waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy too much expensive. As a budget foreign student in Germany, I'd rather spend my 50 euro in H&M and buy five 10-euro bags there, plus it's
new. (Oh, I love H&M).
So, my good idea of visiting flowmarkt turned out to be jaw dropped moment for me since I saw so many so-stylish-yet-cool-people there. I mean for the zillion times in my life, I was feeling so not-stylish and looked like a crap in the middle of those people. I had this urgency to leave that place ASAP but I felt miserable since my train was 40 minutes ahead, so I had nothing do but going around that place for hundred times. Good thing, they offered cool foods. I was eating a taiyaki, a fish-shaped japanese cake with red bean inside and it tasted sooo good! It also offered variant foods and beverages such as brownies, grilled fish, coffee, gluhwein, and of course BRATWURST ! (remember, you are in Germany, mate!)
Despite the amount of people who wear docmarten, fjallraven backpack, round sunglasses, fucking-high-creepers, and green lipstick; Nowkoelln flowmarkt will be a paradise for you if you are into some cool/not-maintstream and great vintage stuff. Just remember, don't forget to dress up stylishly ( I don't even know that word exists or no) so you can blend easily. For myself, I won't go there anymore before I buy pink docmartens and black fjallraven backpack. I guess I am not hipster enough to be in that place.
you can find more picture
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P.S : I took all those pictures candidly because I was afraid the seller will yell at me and throw some snow onto me and asked me to get the fuck out, but bitch please, I am asian. Asian love to take picture, especially Indonesian (read : me). PLUS I FELL ON MY BUTT ON A FUCKING SLIPPERY ICE AND NO ONE HELPED ME THEY JUST LAUGHED AT ME INSTEAD. THANK YOU BERLINER! OKTHXBAI! (my butt and my back and my left palm literally hurt *crying*)
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