I love being a flâneuse in a foreign city. And ahead of a live sketching commission, I had a perfect excuse to explore the creative and cultural life of Berlin. Highlights were the Buchstabenmuseum, a museum of rescued signage, the Museum of Things, which looks at the Deutsche Werkbund and attitudes to taste, studio and gallery complex Bethanien, concept shopping site and food hall Bikini Berlin and the modern art museum in the Hamburger Bahnhof. Visual refreshment!