Berlin
Travel Blogs from Berlin, Germany
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, ...
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
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 ...
Hitting Berlin with Ulrike
... were enjoying it. I got chatting with the man behind the desk, and he told me some extra interesting stuff about Berlin, and Germany in general that I wouldn't have otherwise. For instance, he knew that Mannheim was the top target for the Americans to ...
Berlin City
... impossible from our stop so we headed straight to Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie was right on the border of East/West Germany divided by the wall.. it was the site of many crossings from East to West and many deaths of people attempting ...
Even the dead must suffer
... you see. In my last post, I talked a lot about the Berlin Wall and how tragic it was for the citizens of East Berlin. Today, however, as I ventured back out into the city, I found myself tracking the path of the wall for about a 4-5 mile ...
Queues and Men and New Years'
... i am back ath the ostel and it onlz 3am and it was 2,30am when i got back to the hostel, and mz new zears in berlin is ruined´... it could have been salvaged in arvs eer ansered his Fing phone but of course he dindt# so i jsut wanted to write this ...
Berlin
... from Minnesota. I was right. He was a great guide, and was very knowledgeable about the history of Berlin. We saw Tiergarten, Alexanderplatz, the Russian War Memorial, the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial, the historic Reichstag ...
Berlin
... the city aswell, so within East Germany you had Berlin where half was under West Germany and half was under East Germany, follow? Anyway the Berlin Wall was built to entirely surround the West Germany side of Berlin so that the East Germans could not get ...
Shalom!
... really good on her :3)... on the way back we were a little hungry, so we got brezels. YES. MY FIRST SOFT BREZEL IN GERMANY, YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Meeting Charlie in a few hours. :D Going to the ZOO tomorrow. Zoo! Are we going to the zoo? THE ZOO. ...

