Aplogies for the delay from my Berlin report. I'll do my best to update in the next week!
Admittedly, licorice is an all or nothing treat... you love it or you hate it, and in this country it isn't terribly popular. But, for those of us who love licorice, trips to Europe can mean anis-y, salty and molasses-y gluttony. And since our friend Eric knew that I was a decided fan of European licorice, he pointed me in the direction of a sweet (a salty) little storefront near his dad's art studio in the newly hip Kreuzberg district.

The store front is probably a mere 10 x 12 feet but it is filled with beautiful jars of every type of
licorice imaginable. Overwhelmed, I decided to get a mixed selection of 100 grams- unable to choose from the enormous selection I asked the shopkeep for a 2/3 sweet 1/3 salty combo. The combo came in a beatifully minimally paper cone enclosed with a little kado sticker. It lasted a full 18 hours of our trip-- I must say I showed incredible restraint, but I'll admit that I didn't share. Fortunately my hubby is not a licorice lover so I didn't have to ;-)
If you aren't in Berlin, Kado ships worldwide. Check out their delicious website. The site is unfortunately exclusively in German, so you may have to wing it a bit. But the licorice appears to be from all corners of Europe, if not the globe. So if you were really craving Turkish Pepper (an incredibly strong licorice confection popular in Denmark) you could probably locate it on the site with the aid of the photographs.
Kado's website is www.kado.de
Images from kado.de, and Maja Brugos