Berlin

Don’t get me wrong, Berlin is an awesome city, I loved every single day I spent there last year. Seeing museums, taking wine tasting tours, going to events like Berlinale. The only downside for me was the crime I experienced. I was staying in a hotel near Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn station which apparently has troubled a few travellers I’ve met. Anyway my hotel was broken into and all my belongings stolen, so definitely think twice about the area you stay in when you go to Berlin. It’s still a great city of course. Just don’t stay in this area if you can help it!

http://www.subwayhotels.com/Berlin/Zoologischer-Garten-hotels-531.html

Cheers,

C

ok, so it was a school trip for one week. We stayed in the Kolumbus Hotel. Not the best accommodation, but the West side of Berlin was by far the best place ever!! the shops there were amazing! but then there were the places of historical importance. Mind-blowing, and yes, i’d like to go again someday…maybe pick up the language a little more (danke is all i know… :/)

This city is beyond cool. We spent the entire day wandering around. We visited the Pergamon Museum, which still showed damage from World War II. We also walked around the Brandenburg Gate and saw the remains of the Berlin Wall.

There is a lot to see, and I would love to go back and stay longer.

This city is beyond cool. We spent the entire day wandering around. We visited the Pergamon Museum, which still showed damage from World War II. We also walked around the Brandenburg Gate and saw the remains of the Berlin Wall.

There is a lot to see, and I would love to go back and stay longer.

berlin is my favorite place. i lived here 2004-2005 in neukoelln. i revisited with my husband (who had never been out of the US before) in may 2009. we subletted an apartment in the heart of kreuzberg. it was all still very familiar and hadn’t changed terribly. luckily my favorite vegetarian restaurants were still there!

we had a wonderful trip, though not enough time to show my husband everything about the city that i love.

can’t wait to go back again! my goal is to live here again in the future.

I’m a pacifist so I liked the Room of silence in the Bradenberger tour. I also likes do:ner kebab. I’ve been to the zoo and saw marabu and tapir. I Like the souvenir called Berliner luft, the canned air of Berlin sometimes with a little organ upon. I also saw a shell of Buddha nut in some of boutiques. There I bought a daypack with the word Berlin written on squares of different colors and some stones of the Berlin wall. I was there in 2004 so the block monument for Jews wasn’t built but was started. I visited Reichstag and saw a cracked stone in the yard. Saw those special traffic-light men. I lived in the Copenick canoe club there I fed ducks with a pita that was bought in moscow 2 days ago. I lived on the upper floor of the canoe club house and opened and closed the window in the roof (which I’ve never seen before). I visited the volunteer festival (I traveled to Berlin as a volunteer) and tried potato salad with fried wurst.Traveled by U-bahn and S-bahn.

Last time I was in Berlin, I found a huge second-hand shop by mistake. I can’t remember which street or train stop it was, but I do remember I’d originally been looking for a flea market (maybe Arkonaplatz?), and that the shop wasn’t far from the station. The shop was about five or six storeys, the top few storeys each being devoted to clothes of a certain era. Anyone know which shop it is, and where it is? I’d be grateful for any answers.

Berlin now ranks as one of my favourite European cities. Lots of history, al fresco dining and very green with trees and parks everywhere. Plus the city transport system is excellent, with very good connections between the U-Bahn (underground metro system), the S-Bahn (overground rail system) and the trams (routes prefixed with “M”).

At the moment the city is football mad because of Euro 2008. Germany is in the semi-finals this week playing Turkey. There are huge flat screens up at many restaurants for people to follow the game. Great atmosphere!

See what remains of the Berlin Wall. I still remember watching it coming down on TV 19 years ago (wow, that makes me feel old!).

I had plans for attending the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in Berlin this year. It’s pretty much career-essential, since it’s the best (and for me only) way to meet your foreign associates. I was cut due to budget constraints, so auf wiedersehen Berlin.