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over a year ago
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Brilliant city, Brandenburg gate and reichstag are for the tourists, I enjoyed just walking around a city that people seemed to enjoy living in been honest, went in April and god it was cold |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Just go and explore, that's what travel's all about. Only by exploring do you uncover a places hidden gems. We don't go to places recommended when we chat about places with people. We wish to find out for ourselves. |
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over a year ago
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My family friend is a woman she is 23 and love the bars and beer out there and night life and feel very safe ... She has in a job youth hostel and moves around seeing new places after a year or so. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I lived in Berlin in 88/89, it's a really nice place. I only saw it from a teenagers point of view mind. It's a much different place now, I left just after the wall came down. I used to go to a place called the blub, which was a swimming baths with saunas etc. it's derelict now I believe. As a 14 year old it was great, the changing rooms and saunas were all unisex, I spent many an hour naked in the saunas perving on all those German girls  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Newton Bar is quite fun if you like watching rich bankers and (what look like) expensive escorts... and it has decorated with huge images of nude models by photographer Helmut Newton. Drinks are expensive though.... kebabs are great (or even better find a Turkish cafe/restaurant in an area like Kreuzberg and ask for shawarma). The TV tower at Alexanderplatz is worth a look if you have a head for heights - great view from the top with East Berlin to one side and West to the other. BauhausArchiv museum is very interesting if you're into that sort of thing, the Jewish Museum 'clinking faces' installation (assuming it's still there) is genuinely chilling, as is the preserved concentration camp at Oranienberg, accessible by train if you fancy a day out. |
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I spent 3 years in Berlin in the 70s in the military when it was a divided city and the experiences are still fresh in my mind. Depends what you're looking for really. Culture-wise you can't go far wrong, Berlin can cater for just about any cultural taste. Even in the 70s it was a sexually liberated city, again just about any taste catered for. The place to go for night life is Kurfurstenberg or the Ku'damm as the locals know it. That's one very long street that runs up from the old cathedral and has some very high class clubs and bars. At the top of the Ku'damm used to be a lake where nude bathing took place. I don't know if it still does.
One place I would really recommend going to see is Treptower Park. It is a vast Russian war memorial and is very moving emotionally. As you enter the place there's nothing to be heard - no birdsong or other noises of nature. It is eerily silent. It is said that each granite memorial plinth contains the remains of thousands of Soviet soldiers killed in the battle for Berlin.
Take a boat trip on the Wansee - a vast lake that has some beautiful villas facing onto it. If you get off at one stop called Kladow, it's a short walk to the village and some excellent food and drink.
Prost!!
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"Headed to Berlin next month
Any tips for TVs/cds "
their very open minded in berlin,i hear theres quite a scene ,but not been myself,,its on my to do list |
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By *ina75Woman
over a year ago
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If you like chocolate go to Fassbender unt Rausch in the Gendarmenmarkt. downstairs is like Harrods foodhall for chocolate. Upstairs is a posh cafe with amazing cakes and fabulous hot chocolate which is basically melted chocolate with a little cream added. |
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