Most men would be overwhelmed, but not José Ortiz Romero. He sits supremely in one of the four corner mega-sofas of the main lobby of Hotel de Rome in Berlin - he's a longtime Four Seasons guy, and his role at Hotel de Rome is to get it ready for rebranding.

Girlahead was considerably awed by the location of Berlin’s Hotel de Rome, at the west end of Behrenstrasse (see the hotel’s flags, above), Over a kilometre long, Behrenstrasse’s named for Johann Heinrich Behr, who helped plan Berlin’s Baroque expansion, Friedrichstadt.