Berlin

[Cycleops]

The other half is interested in the main shopping street ! Me , well I’m all over the beer and food !

German food is big. Make sure you try some schweinshax (pork knuckle) but just make sure there's two of you.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I hired bikes when there four years ago. I don't think they have a "Boris bike" scheme, so we just hired from a local coffee shop (there were loads of them hiring bikes out). The infrastructure is very good and the car drivers are extremely careful. There's loads to see, my wife became obsessed with cycling under the Brandenburg Gate!

 

[Julia9054]

Just a thought is this for all visitors as well ??

Yes - for anyone

 

[Andy in Germany]

Just a thought is this for all visitors as well ??

Yes, no-one cares who you are or where you live: it's available on the DB machines and you can get one when you arrive.

 

[BoldonLad]

I am not really a city person, but, enjoyed visiting Berlin. Very interesting place. We were travelling in a Motorhome (we stayed in Spandua district). We traveled around on our bicycles mostly. We also visited Bruges and Budapest in same trip, it was our "three Bs trip).

 

[MrGrumpy]

Yes, no-one cares who you are or where you live: it's available on the DB machines and you can get one when you arrive.

Cool 9 euro tickets purchased on the app !! Happy days ! Looking forward to it !

 

[Andy in Germany]

Cool 9 euro tickets purchased on the app !! Happy days ! Looking forward to it !

Take pictures.

 

[KnittyNorah]

I lived in Berlin for 2 years in the 1990s. LOVED the place. I'm not, in the main, a lover of big cities - and certainly not capital cities - but I have to make an exception for Berlin. I simply loved living there and liked almost everything about the place. I lived in Mitte, just off Unter den Linden near the television tower, on Rosa-Luxemburg Street. I would walk for hours and hours all around the city. Simply fascinating. Of course when I was there, there were still uncleared bomb sites near my flat, the building I lived in was one of the first residential blocks in the area to have been fully modernised (a block kitty-corner across, on t'other side of the Volksbuehne still had the ammoniacal smell of communal toilets wafting out of the entrances) and Potsdamer Platz was reckoned to be the biggest building site in Europe. Fascinating times!

 

[Alex321]

German food is big. Make sure you try some schweinshax (pork knuckle) but just make sure there's two of you.

Yes, I tried that in Cologne a few years ago (with Sauerkraut) . I have a big appetite, but I struggled to finish it.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Take pictures.

I’ll try and remember , not good at remembering to take pics !

 

[MrGrumpy]

Trying to upload some pics but Hotel WiFi rubbish . Cracking city , last day as travelling back tomorrow. Travel is a an absolute breeze . Got lost in the Haptbahnhoff lol . It’s huge ! Plenty folk with plenty cash to burn . KaDaWe must be the German equivalent of Harrods!

Edit pics did upload !

 

[AndyRM]

If you're still there... The Technikmuseum is cool, and if you fancy a banging club night out, K17 is awesome. Although I've just read that it's closed, so that's out. There's is/was a great bar called Access, just off Alexanderplatz. They don't seem to have a website so I'm not sure about that. Charlie's Beach, behind the Berlin Wall is a lot of fun. And the Tiergarten is worth a wander around.

It's been a while since I've been. Last time I went was with my bandmate, Andy, and our whole thing was to be as deliberately offensive as possible. He stuck to this more rigidly than I did, and so had a bunch of SS symbols and swastikas all over his jacket. Which he was wearing when we met to go to the airport.

"Dude, you really can't wear that."

"Why?"

"It's illegal. You'll be instantly arrested."

 

[Andy in Germany]

"It's illegal. You'll be instantly arrested."

Yup. No question.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Trying to upload some pics but Hotel WiFi rubbish . Cracking city , last day as travelling back tomorrow. Travel is a an absolute breeze . Got lost in the Haptbahnhoff lol . It’s huge ! Plenty folk with plenty cash to burn . KaDaWe must be the German equivalent of Harrods!

Edit pics did upload !

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

Have you got 9€ Ticket?

 

[AndyRM]

Yup. No question.

Quite right too. I know there are still idiots who think that ideology is acceptable, and not just in Germany, but it was always something I struggled with his "look". Especially since he didn't actually believe in any of it. Like, our lyrics are horrific enough, he doesn't really need to pretend to be a fascist.