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Berlin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Berlin, Germany
A fitting end to an amazing journey
This is a top pick! ... is the realisation that the anti-graffiti protective coating was initially to be supplied by Degussa, whose subsidiary company Degesch even produced the Zyklon B used to poison people in the gas chambers. Goodbye Germany, and thanks for all the ...
Chapter 54: Reunion!
This is a top pick! ... We took a day trip on Wednesday to the city of Erfurt, which is a college town of about 200,000 in the center of Germany. Jonas was starting university there in a few weeks, and needed to go apartment hunting. The first appointment went OK, but the ...
One year, 4,000km, one beard
This is a top pick! Documentation of a German travelers whose face (beard) changes over time and space. http://www.thelongestway.com/ ...
Riding Along On Your Push Bike Honey
This is a top pick! ... our guide, a history graduate currently studying for his doctorate. The tour was fantastic with highlights being the old Berlin Wall, Reichstag Building, old Luftwaffe Headquarters, new Jewish Holocaust Memorial and the site of Hitler's Bunker. We also ...
So modern and epic
This is a top pick! ... if his parents drink, and he laughs ("Of COURSE!"). He says it´s a health thing. Wow, health propaganda in Germany must be working. Actually, I heard the same thing about smoking and drinking from British and Turkish kids, so it ...
Finally, a Mohawk Sighting
This is a top pick! ... town). Luckily the common room had couches and the people running the hostal didn´t mind ¨party crashers.¨ We flew into Barcelona feeling a little fried from our Berlin experience - I guess that´s the price we pay for drinking with college-age ...
Berliners
This is a top pick! Ahhh I can't believe I am in Berlin already. Noooo. I mean, yessss! I have such mixed feelings about this. Last night in Prague, I hung out at the hostel, drinking wine and meeting new people until the last minute. Then I walked ...
Munchen (munich) we knew we were in germany ...
This is a top pick! ... BAMBERG Bamberg avoided being bombed during the wars, and a stop here was recommended to us by a German girl as "proof that Germany was once an attractive place... before the postwar architects got their hands on it." If only Paul had thought to get ...
Shopping and Blogging and Planning...Boring
This is a top pick! While Jackie was working on the computer I figured I'd find a place to get my haircut. I asked at the front desk where the cheapest place would be and his directions turned out to be very bad, I happened to stumble on one as I was on my way back to the ...
Inge und Gerhard's Goldene Hochzeit
This is a top pick! Heute sind Studentenverbindungen eigentlich out. Vor 50 Jahren war das wohl noch ganz anders. Und irgendwie sind Petra und ich dafuer dann auch dankbar. Denn sonst haette es uns beide wohl nicht gegeben und ihr muesstet diesen BLOG nicht lesen. Falls das ...
Berlin
This is a top pick! ... But after suffering decades of depression and political struggle, i was pleased to see the resiliency of the people and therefore, creating Berlin of today. I'd highly recommend a visit here if you're ever in Europe and you'll surely enjoy it as ...
Greece-y Turkies and a dessert of Berliners
This is a top pick! ... is meant to be all "educational" or something. Whatever. More descriptive plaques, blah blah blah. Our last night in Berlin, we had a wine-drinking extravaganza with some other people staying in the hostel. I, apparently, had a great time. Until ...
Bear - Love Parade = Berlin 2004
This is a top pick! ... and watched Greece beat Portugal, much to most of Germany´s delight. There are some really cool things about Berlin. Actually they probably apply all over Germany, but being the awesome city it is they just seem even better in Berlin (or so I ...
History Class in Berlin
This is a top pick! ... to see the Checkpoint Charlie sight. This was where the US and Russian tanks faced off at a checkpoint in the wall in Berlin. Luckily things were stopped/controlled before any fighting actually occurred. At present there is a small booth on what was the ...
Berlin
This is a top pick! ... suis alle me perdre dans Berlin. J ai marche 4000 heures. ET OUI JAI VU LE MUR!!! J ai meme signe le mur de Berlin! C est quelque chose! Enlongeant le mur j ai decouvert une breche qui donnait sur une plage! Il y avait 3 bars sur la ...
Germanie
This is a top pick! ... sous la pluie encore une fois, theme recurrent. Je vais rester encore 3 nuits ici, cela fera donc 5 nuits en tout a Berlin! Mon record! Moi qui voulait voir un musee avec toutes les horreurs de la guerre j'ai beaucoup de difficulte a trouver tout ...
Checking out Charlie..
This is a top pick! ... ahead of you and avoiding the local pedestrians and traffic. This covered sights such as the Brandenburg gate, holocaust memorial, Berlin wall and Checkpoint Charlie with the history behind each place. It was quite interesting hearing about WW2 and then ...
Not Another Royal Palace!!
This is a top pick! ... bridge was once used to exchange spies from the East and West Berlin states - yes the wall came down to this part of Germany also. Potsdam was where Friedrich the Great decided to build his Royal Palace. He was named 'the Great' as he ...
Berlinoiseries
This is a top pick! ... blague voyons. Compare a Amsterdam le reseau de pistes cyclables fait pitie ici, ca ressemble a Montreal. Se promener a velo a Berlin est donc une aventure qui demande concentration. Hier soir j'ai rencontre un sud africain qui a l'air aussi ...
More Berlin: Galleries, Mammoths, and Protests
This is a top pick! We're near the end of our stay in Berlin and still had a lot more sightseeing to do in the city, catching up with Frank's family and friends, and also catching up on sleep! So we decided to axe Prague from the itinerary. Darn, next ...
Berlin - The Wall.
This is a top pick! ... past. A massive new monument to the Jews who were murdered (yes, the word murdered is now used) has been recently completed in Berlin. Germany is deeply in debt because it took on the problems that the communist East had when it was unified, but there is ...
Sick as a puppy!
This is a top pick! ... days off and sleep all day. I've got no choice but to get up, pack my bag and walk to the train station here in Berlin, get on the train and endure the 9 hour trip to Paris... and then circumnavigate Paris' metro system in getting to my next awaited ...
The Third Reich
This is a top pick! ... , we hit the cake shops as I was actually hanging for a mandlehorn as I did not get one when we were in Leipzig. This is Germany after all, so free U-Bahns everywhere and we ended up at the Zoo station. We wanted to see the old church that had been bombed ...
Rye bread - too easy or too hard?
This is a top pick! ... baking bread came from living and studying abroad, where great bread is a part of almost all daily meals. In Sweden and Germany, where I spent most of my time (I was studying German literature), my typical meals consisted of cured meats, cheeses, ...
Business in Berlin
This is a top pick! ... got into Berlin at about 12pm. I decoded the S-bahn (local train) map and got my way to the Generator Hostel in former East Berlin. Exhausted, I sampled a local kebab and went to bed. Next day I found my way back into town for a free tour that was ...
Ich bin ein Berliner
This is a top pick! ... off we went. We went straight to the Zoo station and picked up a walking tour. Really interesting tour. Didn't realise that Berlin had 2 of everything. 2 zoo's, airports, and many other things. We saw the burning of the books, once you start burning ...
K-Nutting Around
This is a top pick! ... tour, following Rick's guidebook. This took us past the Victory Column and to Reichstag, the parliament building of Germany. The Reichstag was almost burnt down in 1933, and it was believed that Hitler used this as an excuse to frame ...
Dynamic Berlin
This is a top pick! ... city destroyed at the end of World War 2 and then misused by the SS in the East is now rapidly developing into the new Berlin, full of adventurous architecture and shopping malls. We went on a walking tour of the city (led by an Northern Irish actor!) ...
Back to Berlin
This is a top pick! ... movie and the whole experience was bizarre enough to make me laugh so I let them go this time. Anyway - that's about all from Berlin. Feeling rested and with a bit more energy, I caught a flight to Krakow in Poland to have a look around before meeting ...