Berlin-by-Number

Number of overnight guests: 54

Total number of nights with out-of-town or out-of-country company: 87

Number of meals cooked for guests: lost count (never counted in the first place!)

Museum tickets: 55

• Contemporary art: 3
• Expressionism: 5
• National gallery: 5
• Egyptian: 10
• Schatzkammer in Munich: 5
• History of Bonn: 5
• Story of Berlin: 5
• Technik in Flensburg 5
• Natural history: 10
• Speer's Germania: 2

Concert tickets: 37

• SEED: 3
• Hip hop festival: 2
• Messiah: 5
• Piano: 3
• RIAS Kammerchor: 2
• Jessye Norman: 2
• Jazz clubs: 6
• Sarah Kaiser: 6
• Organ in Dom: 5
• Black Seed: 3

Opera tickets: 4

• Madame Butterfly: 2
• El Turca en Italia: 2

Ballet tickets: 7

• Alice in Wonderland: 3
• Nutcracker excerpt: 4

Musical tickets: 8

• Robin Hood: 3
• The King and I: 5

Professional basketball game tickets: 20

• AlbaBerlin: all 20!

Street festivals: 8

Open-air markets: 5

Church services: 40-some + one midnight Christmas Eve mass