I'm currently sitting on a train with my wife on our way to Strasbourg, France. We're leaving Berlin at 250 km/h after four nights spent at a fancy hotel. Sadly I've still no James Bond book purchases to attribute to this trip.
I was very optimistic about finding James Bond books in Berlin. I just needed two more paperbacks published in the 1960's/1970's to complete my Phoenix Shocker series of German language books... but finding them was not to be.
The question why is very clear; there were no secondhand book shops within a one hour radius of our hotel. Sure there were plenty of book stores close by selling new books; Dussman, Thalia and Relay for a start. But there were no antique or dusty old secondhand book stores that didn't require a train journey to a different German borough. Well that's according to our research on Google Maps anyway.
So my Phoenix Shocker series will remain incomplete for now, still requiring a replacement copy of "Colonel Sun" (as my copy has some cover damage) and a copy of "Tod im Rückspiegel" which contains four Ian Fleming short stories taken from "For Your Eyes Only" or "Octopussy". The image below is courtesy of a nice little website called Hefte.
Here's some photos from the new book stores we visited which included several James Bond titles:
Thalia which we found in the Mall of Berlin. They operated two stores adjacent to each other; one for German language books and the other for English. I was unable to find any James Bond titles in either store. There were some really nice German language books though.
And finally, here's some photos from our travels in Berlin:
The most famous mural on the longest remaining section of the Berlin Wall
The Reichstag building with its glass dome
The Brandenburg Gate
The TV Tower, ever visible when walking around Berlin, completed in 1969
Another section of remaining Berlin Wall
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