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PROST.. here's to Contiki!
... we just wandered our way down to the Bauhaus museum, only to find that it was closed due to technical difficulties!! There were people rushing round all over the place trying to get it sorted, and they said they may open later in the day so Simon and I just chilled out in the sun in front of the museum in case they managed to get it fixed quickly!!.. Just our luck.. the ONE day we had to see it!
So after an hour of waiting we decided that we may as ...
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... 25 attend this place? Where do THEY go? Anyway, there are two spaces here, an upstairs venue I don't care to bother looking up, playing forgettable "Tech-House" stuff, and then downstairs, Tresor, which opened a bit later. Tresor is accessed via a passageway, leading into a minimal concrete bunker, dimly lit. When I entered there was barely anyone there and I was greeted with a kind of ...
BERLIN!
... out their fancy moves. During the round-robin everyone plays nice, thankfully!
The following morning was our walking tour, which I'm really glad we did. It was interesting and we learnt a little bit about all the main sites and so when we went back later it was nice to have the background knowledge. Luckily, we had great weather during our stay - sun and blue skies! We heard that a very typical "Berlin" food to try is ...
Berlin
... put up on Dam Square. It was a great way to be welcomed back.
Berlin has such a different and complex identity than most other European cities. So much was bombed during both World Wars that it has a lot of new buildings compared to Amsterdam. You can also tell that Germans are very embarrassed by the history of the Nazis. It goes without saying that what they did was reprehesible in the strongest terms, but I do think it's rather unfortunate for the ...
Touring and Clubbing in Berlin
... the Stasi Headquarters, now a museum.
The Stasi were the secret police of East Germany, whose numbers were once in the tens of thousands to possibly near a hundred thousand members and volunteers of employees. This is especially startling compared to the few hundred gestapo employees of the Nazi regime. The headquarters was about 30 minutes from Alexanderplatz in a region of the city that never appeared on city maps until the fall of ...
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