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- Berlin
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
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- 83,029,536
- Population
- DE
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Berlin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Berlin, Germany
A Day in Berlin
This is a top pick! ... new things I wanted to see, Berlin was going to be our chosen city. Drive, Stansted, Fly, Schonefeld, S Bahn, Zoo Berlin Once we had thrown down a wake me up coffee, we grabbed Brenda and took a walk to our first stop. Bendlerblock. ...
Berlin - Autobahn to Munich
This is a top pick! Flew into Berlin on a cheap flight from Riga with the aim of hiring a car and driving the 600km to Oktoberfest the next day. A couple of australian girls, Belinda and Rebecca (who we met in Riga) came along for the ride and shared ...
Naked in the Park
This is a top pick! ... next to the American tourists posing for photos in Russian hats is a great little museum all about escaping the old east Germany for a 'better' life in the west. The pictures of the wal eventually being torn down are heart wrenching. Day four The ...
Loving Berlin 7 Month Anniversary
This is a top pick! ... I'm very glad to be out of Switzerland, which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment for the budget backpacker. Germany, on the other hand, continues to impress with its outstanding tourism infrastructure, ease of getting around, friendly locals and ...
Der Herbst
This is a top pick! ... our families, they never expected us to return and now we have and we have given hope that we will stay. They feel we haven't given Germany a chance yet. They are right but what is the point when you know where you need to be? This is the hardest part of ...
We love Berlin
This is a top pick! ... -spirit in you and experience German hospitality every day of the week even if it's just a beer on someone's balcony. Berlin feels like home...maybe because of all my friends who moved there and never want to leave. We came to explore and ...
Capital Construction
This is a top pick! ... is set to change as Berlin has just became the capital and there are hundreds of cranes topping up the skyline giving Berlin a huge construction site feel. The highlight of the day was a walk around the remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, which still ...
first night on the road
This is a top pick! The first day and a half or so did not go without event. My first flight, Cinci to London, was stuck circling at the destination due to a backup. Then, we were forced to fly to Manchester to land because we were going to run out of gas. The detour, ...
Berlin... a must do city.
This is a top pick! ... of naked bodies, but you get use to it after a while. There were literally hundreds of people bathing in the nude...people of all ages this time, and of both genders but mostly male. If you enjoy sunbathing in the nude, Germany is the place to come ...
Plane rides and grey cities
This is a top pick! ... -off bursts. A short shuttle ride to the conveniently-located train station later, I was aboard a high-speed ICE train to Berlin. Unfortunately, as I hadn't reserved a seat (deliberately, in case the flight was late), I had to seat-hop quite a bit ...
New Year in Berlin
This is a top pick! An Aussie guy we knew had arranged to go to Berlin for new years, and as my life was back to normality, i.e. Lucy was back, we decided to tag on to him as he had cheap accommodation. £10 per person per night. So we flew in, caught the S-Bahn and then the ...
World Cup fever
This is a top pick! ... imagine. Finally, out for dinner with the group, before going on a bizarre pub crawl that took us to what were surely Berlin's strangest nightspots. All's well that ends... weird. We all said our goodbyes and went our separate ways. No more being a ...
the end
This is a top pick! Back to Germany. This time, seen through very different eyes. Much more routine this time around. No longer shocked by the fact that I can't communicate verbally with most people. Public transportation is no longer daunting. The small challenges of ...
Decisions Decisions..
This is a top pick! ... to 30 people there.. Jennifer was extremely passionate and knowledgeable as she had spent the past 6 years studying and working in Germany, her first couple actually at Dachau itself. She was very happy to share her experiences with us. ...
Ronflements et terrorisme
This is a top pick! ... . Il etait temps que je parte. Je voulais arreter a Hamburg mais il n y avait pas d auberge disponible alors ce fut directement Berlin. Ca ne me derangeait pas, je savais que Berlin etait une valeur sure au niveau action. Je me suis donc tape une autre ...
war, wall, peace
This is a top pick! ... in history. It's only been just over 16 years since re-unification of east and west Germany and the amount of development that has occurred in Berlin is breathtaking. The Berlin wall and separation of a city occurred within my generation and ...
Getting a feel for Berlin
This is a top pick! ... Cool. After some talking in german, the band begins their first song. ALAN JACKSONs chattahoochee. Wow. So, let me recap... im in germany, at an irish pub, listening to bad german alan jackson covers. by the way, half the lines were in german, half ...
What is Brazilian Lifestyle?
This is a top pick! ... thin, but not too thin, they are really well shaped. They wear modern good clothes,with a depth cleavage ;) and very short skirts. In Germany people would look at me a lot if I would wear such clothes. Everything is a bit too small, but not the underwear ...
Brandenburg Gate (World)
This is a top pick! ... Country's Division and Unification" The first time I saw Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) was on our way to a conference dinner over in East Berlin. We drove by it. It was all lit up, and quite pretty. Over the next couple of days in Berlin, I got to ...
Start in Berlin
This is a top pick! The adventure begins in Brandis (a small city in Saxony) Brandis and Berlin NO NO NO I am not nervous ;) ... not at all. I mean that are only 24 hours travel alone. So don`t worry :~ Martin and I we started in Brandis a bit earlier, because ...
Berlin!
This is a top pick! ... that could even be in Canada. There is no signs of anything....except for museums, memorials and textbooks. I thought Berlin would be more exciting because of the history, but it seems all covered over with modern architecture. The ...
Foot in the door
This is a top pick! Just a quick one here... They say that the darkest hour is just before the dawn and in this case it is true. The day that I posted that last entry, I got a call from a friend here and she asked me if I wanted to move in with her. It isn't ideal or ...
Small town, BIG night!!
This is a top pick! Today we headed back into Germany to a small place called St Goar (pronounced Saint Go-are). This place boasts the world's largest free-hanging cuckoo clock!! But on this occasion it was not working, and to be honest, I was a little disappointed. As this ...
minor inconveniences
This is a top pick! So, as said before, massive delazs on my first flight caused me to get into Berlin a bit later than expected. While riding the bus from the airport to the tourist office, I noticed a large sign for a hostel. What nice luck, eh? After checking in and ...
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Berlin
This is a top pick! ... I found a seat, I had walked fifteen long carriages with my three bags on - not an easy task in a rattling train. Arriving in Berlin was amusing because we took the train to the Warschawer St and I was confronted by a one-man-band-sausage-standİ which ...
Back to Berlin
This is a top pick! ... the tour and told us this awesome story that I won't write down, but I'll sum it up for you. The people in East Germany were very unhappy in 1989 and mounting pressure meant that people were rallying in Leipzig in the square there. The first time, it was ...
Leaving home
This is a top pick! ... and be a shivering wreck in the corner of the room - I think this will mainly be due to the cold and party be due to living in Neukoelln, the Bronx of Berlin ahhahahaha. Everything in moderation, but we all know that a kebab a day keeps the doctor ...
Gift from the gods
This is a top pick! ... am about to describe... The perfect Döner Kebab experience begins with what most people experience every day - hunger. Great thing about Berlin is that there are "Schnellimbisses" *(mini fast food outlets) dotted all across the city: I don't think you ...
Safe as houses
This is a top pick! ... and try to do my masters here - according to this dude I met, education here is free, even if you're not a citizen of Germany, but I'm guessing that they would therefore make it very hard for you to get a student visa in the first place. I am going to ...