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- Berlin
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Travel Blogs from Berlin, Germany
Operations town to town woodsman and ...
This is a top pick! ... reach town B from town A. Still seriously behind on points, it occurred to me to walk the 77 Km from Freiburg, Germany through the Black Forest to Basel, Switzerland. I'd sleep in the forest overnight (Operation Woodsman), climb a mountain and yodel ...
Priceless party
This is a top pick! ... and a parade with crazy costumes and whatnot. What the Love Parade was in reality was a huge advertising gig for the nightclubs of Germany. There were loads of big trucks with speakers and dancing people on the back and they were all fitted out with signs ...
Big Berlin
This is a top pick! ... are the only ones that buy the tickets and support the system for everyone else. I also took a boat tour through the canals of Berlin seeing all of the old buildings and heard a lot about the history of the city. The Berlin wall was also quite the site ...
It's getting hot in here!
This is a top pick! My apartment in Berlin is very cheap - one of the main reasons why it is so cheap is that it has coal heating. Coal heating is a lot harder to use than central heating. Central heating involves turning a tap and waiting. Coal heating however is a totally ...
Secret cinema
This is a top pick! ... bars in houses, crazy parties, but what I'm about to tell you about takes the cake! It is stuff like this that makes me love Berlin! Hit and Run Kino (Kino means Cinema in English) is this 'business' where there is a group of people in the know and ...
Driving ambition
This is a top pick! ... .org meet up in the middle of nowhere on the weekend and met a lot of crazy people. One of these people recommended that I hitchhike from Germany to Hong Kong and then fly home from there in a bid to save money. He wasn't too clever - I am sure that it ...
It's jungle time!!
This is a top pick! ... too, felt a bit more of a lady!! Got home, had a jungle of a time, then sleep for our walking tour the following morning!! Berlin was a little different to what I expected. I'm not sure what I thought it would be, but it was different. A hell of a ...
Rock bottom
This is a top pick! ... you save 15 minutes travel time. So I get off after one station at Westhafen and take the ringtrain in the clockwise direction to Berlin-Gesundbrunnen and alight once more. This time I go across to the other platform and take the S25 in the direction of ...
Operation shooting star 2 you don't have to ...
This is a top pick! ... there aren't too many good white rappers. It pretty much starts and ends with the Beastie Boys but who should I spy in Freiburg, Germany? Eminem, the guy who had that enormous and slightly risque song called 'My Name Is (Slim Shady)'. To be honest I ...
Mucha lluvia. Agotado: Berlín (Alemania)
31 mayo 2010: Lille-Berlin ( kms): Hotel F1 Berlin Sud Brandenburg Park (33 euros con desayuno). Autopistas infierno con tanto camión y los chorros de agua que proyectan sobre mi en los ultimos 450 kms Salgo de Francia, paso a Bélgica, paso a Holanda y ...
Travel Day and Berlin, Day 1
... for our feet, service was very slow. Next it was back to Checkpoint Charlie to read the many informational billboards concerning Berlin during the Cold War. After learning a lot we walked to the Topography of Terror – an exhibit located ...
Vie ich dich liebe Deutschland!
The train from Gdansk to Berlin, transfer in Poznan. 8:18 - 17:16. Arriving in Germany was strange because the entire day all the land had been covered in mist and the sky didn't exist, we did manage to transfer at Poznan without incident also. We were a ...
More travel, More Drama
... as we will be needing them soon, but thought we would wait for Berlin. We then caught the midday train direct from Munich to Berlin. It was a crowded train, and we did not manage to get Window seats, which meant for a very unpleasant 7 hour journey. ...
Where to begin with Berlin?
... version of Oktoberfest the next night. I say 'fake’ because the proper Oktoberfest really takes place in the Bavarian area of Germany - or basically just in Munich. But, that didn’t stop us from going out to a little fairground in Berlin and ...
Charmless Charlie & the Jewish Museum
... of a world renowned cellist playing at the wall as it was coming down behind him. The cellist and the cello had fled East Germany over 20 years previously and as soon as he heard what was transpiring in Berlin he had packed up the Cello and headed ...
Berlin, Part II
... ; When we walked through, there were 3 different protests going on in the plaza. That's one thing I observed about Germany....people protest everything. Whether it's big or small, there is someone, somewhere in Berlin protesting it. One ...
Berlin, finally
... my little corner called Kreuzberg. It is primarily a Turkish community, but it's really just the multi-cultural center of Berlin. Lots of interesting shops, little cafes, hoppin clubs, and odd boutiques. I live on a very busy ...
everything has changed
... ve only missed a half day so far and i needed a day off. i went to the Jewish Museum and walked around a part of Berlin I have not seen before. I spent time drinking tea, wrapped up in my bed reading a novel a friend of mine lent ...
Everything has changed...again
... camp 'nice.' I'm glad I went. So everything feels great. Before karaoke last night I went to a famous Berlin eating establishment called Cafe Einstein. It has turned into a franchise cafe chain, but its original location is a ...
Berlin
... my haircut I bought myself some Birkenstocks wooop wooop…they are soo cheap here…half the price (since they are made in Germany). The rest of the evening and night I hung out with my mates and grabs some dinner with them at a local kebab ...
More traveling.... and arrival in Berlin.
... am wearing sneakers... they get soaked, so does my bag and everything else including the inside of my umbrella. I'm guessing rain in Germany blows sideways and up? We head to the Topography of Terror and Dr. Piper gives us an amazing history of everything ...
Live Aus Berlin
... from my first full night sleep in what seems like weeks, I inspect the bathroom and come to face one of my worse enemies of Germany... the hotel shower. Showers in hotel rooms in European cities for the most part all are the same. A ...
Match de Soccer
... maison. Et la, je vais voir un match de soccer de la Bundesliga avec Doreen l´amie de Ramona. Le match c´est Berlin contre Wolfburg. Le match est a 15h30, on part a maintenant... Le match etait vraiment super. Le Stade Olympique est vraiment ...
Visit with the Kurz's
This afternoon I got to go into Konigs Wusterhausen, the town where Reinhard and Erica Kurz live. It's located about 15 minutes from the school. Naturally, when Reinhard told me I'd be following behind him in one of the school's vehicles I was a little ...
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Biking Around Berlin
... a bike, I have quite enjoyed cycling around town and finally feel confident. Tomorrow I head back to London, and am sad because tomorrow Germany is in the Euro Cup Finals so it would be wonderful to be here for that. I suppose there will still be plenty ...
History Lessons in Berlin
... , which is now rubble and sits under a parking lot. We also visited the old Luftwaffe headquarters, a section of the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag and the Berliner Dom, among other sites, and heard lots of interesting stories along the ...
Teaching, so far
... and gain some truth nuggets about integration. On Thursday I'll be heading out to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp just north of Berlin, with some of the students on a class field trip. Should be intense, thought provoking and possibly enlightening. ...
Da sind keiner Berliner ins Berlin...
... of a certain statue), WW I (where everyone whooped everyone else but no one seemed to get anywhere), and WW II (where Germany managed to go everywhere but got whooped in the end and ultimately got nowhere). Lucky last is the Berlin Wall (160km of). ...