light EZY8629 from London Gatwick touched down at Berlin Brandenburg at 05:40am, and with it came an unexpected pang of nostalgia for Berlin’s old Tegel Airport.
I had flown there in 2020, shortly before it was closed and repurposed as a refugee arrival and accommodation centre.
I had been training as an English teacher with the Berlin School of English at the time, and used to love taking the S- and U-Bahns from Friedrichstraße to Charlottenburg, and Wilmersdorfer Straße to Fehrbelliner Platz to visit my aunt and uncle who lived nearby.
