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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Any places to see?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am told its nice in parts and nice people ... Have a friend working out there .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Brilliant city, Brandenburg gate and reichstag are for the tourists, I enjoyed just walking around a city that people seemed to enjoy living in been honest, went in April and god it was cold

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just go and explore, that's what travel's all about. Only by exploring do you uncover a places hidden gems. We don't go to places recommended when we chat about places with people. We wish to find out for ourselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My family friend is a woman she is 23 and love the bars and beer out there and night life and feel very safe ... She has in a job youth hostel and moves around seeing new places after a year or so.

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Train station and get a kebab

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

My old man was there in the 1960's and said it was nice, but that the Russian's had too many tanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I lived in Berlin in 88/89, it's a really nice place. I only saw it from a teenagers point of view mind. It's a much different place now, I left just after the wall came down. I used to go to a place called the blub, which was a swimming baths with saunas etc. it's derelict now I believe. As a 14 year old it was great, the changing rooms and saunas were all unisex, I spent many an hour naked in the saunas perving on all those German girls

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Headed to Berlin next month

Any tips for TVs/cds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Newton Bar is quite fun if you like watching rich bankers and (what look like) expensive escorts... and it has decorated with huge images of nude models by photographer Helmut Newton. Drinks are expensive though.... kebabs are great (or even better find a Turkish cafe/restaurant in an area like Kreuzberg and ask for shawarma). The TV tower at Alexanderplatz is worth a look if you have a head for heights - great view from the top with East Berlin to one side and West to the other. BauhausArchiv museum is very interesting if you're into that sort of thing, the Jewish Museum 'clinking faces' installation (assuming it's still there) is genuinely chilling, as is the preserved concentration camp at Oranienberg, accessible by train if you fancy a day out.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thanks the museums sound great - in two minds about the bar - not sure if I can stand pretentious bankers but the photography sounds good

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I spent 3 years in Berlin in the 70s in the military when it was a divided city and the experiences are still fresh in my mind. Depends what you're looking for really. Culture-wise you can't go far wrong, Berlin can cater for just about any cultural taste. Even in the 70s it was a sexually liberated city, again just about any taste catered for. The place to go for night life is Kurfurstenberg or the Ku'damm as the locals know it. That's one very long street that runs up from the old cathedral and has some very high class clubs and bars. At the top of the Ku'damm used to be a lake where nude bathing took place. I don't know if it still does.

One place I would really recommend going to see is Treptower Park. It is a vast Russian war memorial and is very moving emotionally. As you enter the place there's nothing to be heard - no birdsong or other noises of nature. It is eerily silent. It is said that each granite memorial plinth contains the remains of thousands of Soviet soldiers killed in the battle for Berlin.

Take a boat trip on the Wansee - a vast lake that has some beautiful villas facing onto it. If you get off at one stop called Kladow, it's a short walk to the village and some excellent food and drink.

Prost!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Headed to Berlin next month

Any tips for TVs/cds "

their very open minded in berlin,i hear theres quite a scene ,but not been myself,,its on my to do list

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I will be in Berlin from tomorrow

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By *ina75Woman
over a year ago

Stone

If you like chocolate go to Fassbender unt Rausch in the Gendarmenmarkt. downstairs is like Harrods foodhall for chocolate. Upstairs is a posh cafe with amazing cakes and fabulous hot chocolate which is basically melted chocolate with a little cream added.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ooh I will definitely check that out - love chocolate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kreuzberg is great fun

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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago

Staines


"Kreuzberg is great fun "

Just got back from two days, mostly spent in Kreuzberg.

Approximately 78.3% dead.

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk


"Kreuzberg is great fun

Just got back from two days, mostly spent in Kreuzberg.

Approximately 78.3% dead."

You or the place?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Probably both. It's carnage!

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