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- Berlin
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Berlin Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Berlin, Germany
Hang Ten In East Berlin
... though off to get our train to Berlin HBF. We were hoping for a nice quiet relaxed train ride through the scenic countryside of Germany, we got the countryside but a painful 6hour + trip for a great price of 250 euro. Worst train trip ever. Arguing with ...
4 years and a 10 hour bus ride later I return
So its been 4 years since i was last in berlin / germany, I am right now in a cyber cafe close to alexanderplatz, something looks differnt, if i remember correctly this whole area was under construction last i was here. My last visit was ...
Work Sets You Free
... would be like. We got back to the hotel at 6:30am On Sunday we got up late and did the tourist sites. Went to the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Postdam Platz and the Brandenburg Gate. Raj picked us up at a Café and took us to the airport. I would ...
The trip begins
... it for months (or even years) it was finally time to check in my luggage, say goodbye to my family for a while and board Air Berlin flight 8352 from Berlin to Moscow to kick off my world trip :-). Spending the past several days sorting various equipment ...
A traveling day
... and I will be stuck in the middle seat! horrors!*&(*&^% Finally a counter is open but it doesn't say which counter. Air Berlin likes to keep secrets apparently. I wander the airport, going the wrong direction with a 50/50 chance, come back to the ...
Excursion à Postdam
... faites en français et je me suis déjà demandé si cela dérangeait les anglophones ? Un commentaire quelqu'un ? ;) À Berlin, les annonces dans les transports en commun sont faites uniquement en allemand, et en Flandres, uniquement en néerlandais. ...
Fun and Games at Deutsche Post
... they very uncivilised hour of 3:00am. Talk to you next from Rome! PS: for those of you who enjoy a bit of undergraduate humour, some of the streets signs in Germany have been a constant source of hilarity, a small sample is provided for your ...
Berlin Bmx Bandits
Am still feeling very delicate so stay in bed when Gary is off to the gym. We get on our bikes and head back to the Tiergarten for amazing pizza and shandies in the pretty lakeside bistro. It is rather scorching again today so after lunch, we ride ...
12.5 Hour Trip 5 days And Counting.
Ah, our last morning in Berlin. Pretty sad to see this amazing city off but more adventure awaits! Gym, pack, out the door and into a cab - our journey to the train station only delayed by an army march through the streets. Very random but a nice surprise ...
Out Of Berlin
... . Pavement is everything I’d hoped they’d be, having been listening to them again since I heard they were playing in Berlin. The trains back from the gig are suitably packed, and my eyelids are heavy enough that I nearly fall asleep standing ...
Look where we are!
... – it wasn't overly exciting if you didn't want your face painted, but we were told that there was a big screen showing the Germany game at Potsdamer Platz this evening. Newly armed with a plan of sorts for the evening (check out the big screen & ...
Berlin
... write anything since I have ten minutes of Internet left at the Internet cafe and I am using a German keyboard. I arrived in Berlin on Saturday after taking an eighteen hour bus ride through France, Belgium and the Netherlands. We had some random passport ...
DAY 25 - Lucerne to the Rhine Valley, Germany
DAY 25 - Lucerne to the Rhine Valley, Germany Today we left Switzerland and travelled back into Germany, towards the Rhine Valley. Unfortunately, after our first service stop, we got stuck on the Autobahn in a traffic jam for about three hours, only to ...
Berlin Day 2
... is not my forte) in to, and they started saying "Oh! You are from USA!" and talked and talked to them about how I am liking Germany and the area. I came to my stop and they got off with me, and asked if I wanted to hang out at this bar they were going to ...
First stop: Berlin
Upon arriving at the Berlin Tegel airport, I quickly looked for my friend John, who arrived an hour before me. Two of other buddies, Joseph and Marie, already arrived several hours before we did and were probably in our hostel already, sleeping or ...
Berlin!
... did in 2yrs of Modern History. *rambling a bit arent I?* On our 2nd day, we went to a concentration camp not far from Berlin. Think it was sauschausion. ok, nothing like that, but looked similar. Anyway, the train we took was on the same line ...
Berlin
... , and for all of the other hospitality! We also had a great time visiting with my friend Esther. Saw the Dali Lama who was here in Berlin, as well as some of the major tourist attractions, the remains of the wall, Brandenburg Gate, ...
Willkommen in Berlin!
... JFK (where there is surprisingly no free Wifi). On the plane, I was finishing up the book "The Five Germany's I Knew" which was required before we got to Berlin. Luckily for me a huge orthodox Jewish family was sitting on all sides of me. After one of ...
From Checkpoint Charlie...
... and ceiling are particularly notable, and they have a nice collection of vintage before and after photographs. Then we went to the Berlin Zoo, which was fantastic! Very lovely, landscaped well, and lots of animals to see. We particularly liked the bears, ...
Ich bin ein Berliner
... was at a local Italian restaurant walking distance from the hotel. Not sure why we went to an Italian restaurant when we just arrived in Germany, but the food was good so no complaints. I was seated on what I deemed 'the cool table', as I was with some ...
Monkeying around in Berlin
... ‘must-sees’ are and how we want to go about seeing them. So please bear with us as we explain our visit to Berlin, Germany. We made it to Berlin… by the grace of God. Once again uncertain of what our tickets actually said, we ...
The Sweetest Thing
... not two hours before. Now imagine it's five am. You've just left the cannibus-filled air of Amsterdam for the drizzly streets of Berlin. You have only the name and phone number of the hostel you've booked for the night, along with a cartoon map of the ...
Berlin and Prague
... Potsdamer Platz, the pre-war centre of Berlin which was cut in two by the Berlin Wall. Like much of what we'd seen of Berlin, the area looked very modern. Had a few minutes at the Sony Centre (which was a covered circle of modern buildings). Walked ...
Berlin
After Amsterdam, Paige and I heaed off to Berlin. This was my first time in Germany so this was pretty exciting to me since I've always wanted to visit Deutschland! We arrived at night into the Berlin Hauptbahnhof (which is a fun word to say, ...
Goth clubs and Gay bars
... So we've decided to make up for the fact that we have been shockingly sober in our trip so far by going out every night in Berlin. It hasn't been as we expected, but we've had fun nonetheless. Our first wee adventure was to a goth club called The Last ...
First night in the big city
... ; That's about 142 miles/hr. We have a very cool one bedroom apartment in the Wilmersdorf section of the former West Berlin. It even has a small clothes washing machine in the bathroom which is very cool when you are travelling so you don't ...
Berlin
... that I would like to see Berlin. Strange choice but now that I am here I am realizing how intelligent a decision it is. Berlin is the best stepping stone to the West, being that the wall was here that divided the two. Its really interesting cause ...
Berlin - Verena und Tobi
... , Berlin calling, wie Verena so schön gesagt hat. Verena und Tobi haben uns wirklich von A-Z verwöhnt, wunderbar war es in Berlin! Nach einem tollen Brunch sind wir in die City und haben zwei tolle Schiffsausflüge auf der Spree gemacht. Berlin ist ...
Berlin is fun
hey everyone! so we got into berlin two days ago and had a blast touring the city yesterday. this city looks like its from the future with all the skyscrapers, and you would never guess it was nearly demolished 50 years ago. now were off ...