Hotel Bongard Berlin
Holzhauser Str 180 Berlin, 13403, Germany
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The new and cosmopolitan Berlin.....
... If I don't keep watch on my bags, they may not be there when I return from dining (I've seen that happen to other people). The other benefit of buying a snack at the Kiosk is that the price is generally better than on the trains.
The train for Berlin arrived only a few minutes before it’s scheduled departure time, so loading was done very quickly. A few minutes before it arrived, a station official went up and down the platform telling people ...
Destiny and a new set of wheels....
... further north. We couldn’t think of a better place than Berlin…turns out we were right. There are bikes everywhere, as well as great shops and lots of delightful passionate bike people (tell you about the bikes next). We email all our German friends in the hope of meeting up……maybe some tips etc but we can’t read the scribbled email of our friends Markus and Anne…sorry Markus, we don’t know if it’s a v or an r…….we try ...
20th Century European History
... until the New York stock exchange crash in 1929.
So the stock exchange crash meant that every country went into recession. Germany may have been on the rise, but the country was still recovering from the first world war economically and it took the crash hard. Inflation went crazy and Hitler (and the Nazi party) saw another chance to get their foot in the door of German politics. In 1923 they failed to take power illegally, so they decided to have a go at doing things by ...
Drive to Berlin from Prague
... tour of Berlin the following morning which the majority of us participated in.
We also got to see the Berlin Wall which was not as impressive a size as I first imagined. I thought it would be around 1m thick and 6m high but it’s like 30cm wide and 3m high – very unimpressive. Then again I guess it was built to separate east and west Germany and it seemed to do that ok.
After the tour we were taken to our hostel and given an hour or ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Bongard


