berlin info
Berlin infoWHERE, WHY, WHY MAYBE NOT, WHEN, HOW, WHO:
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/TravelGuide-Berlin.html
WHAT´S ON:
www.zitty.de
www.tip-berlin.de
http://tip-berlin-guide.blog.de/
www.berlin.de (link to a nice citymap)
http://www.my-entdecker.de/europa/deutschland/berlin
http://www.my-entdecker.de/europa/deutschland/berlin
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Berlin-TG-C-1.html
SHOESTRING AND LOW BUDGET:
www.gratis-in-berlin.de
www.berlin-umsonst.de (only in german)
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
www.bvg.de
do sightseeing-bustours for price of a single-ride ticket: hop on a bus 100 or 200 (Alexanderplatz <> Zoologischer Garten)
GET AROUND BY BIKE:
www.bbbike.de
RENT A BIKE: among many others:
http://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/
www.lassrollen.de
www.sirinalata.de
http://www.berlinandbike.de/
http://berlinonbike.de/en/bike-rental/
http://www.froschrad.de/service/fahrradverleih
and specially for CS/BW members:
http://bikesurfberlin.blogspot.de/
OFFSIDE BEAUTYS AND ODD ARCHITECHTURE:
http://www.berlin-hidden-places.de/
http://thegrumpyoldlimey.com/pages/Futuro-Berlin-Germany.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Berlin-TG-C-1.html
CULINARY STUFF:
http://www.germanfoodguide.com/berlin.cfm
JUST A RANDOM SMALL SELECTION OF BARS AND CLUBS
(not all my favourite ones, but find out yourself..):
www.katerholzig.de
www.kulturbrauerei.de
www.rosis-berlin.de
www.cookies-berlin.de
www.water-gate.de
wwww.clubdervisionaere.de
www.matrix-berlin.de
www.adagio.de
www.lido-berlin.de
www.berghain.de
www.tresorberlin.com
www.festsaal-kreuzberg.de
www.zurmoebelfabrik.de
www.so36.de
ww.goldengate-berlin.de
MUSEUMS, MEMORIAL PLACES, THEATERS, OPERA, random selection:
www.museumsinsel-berlin.de
www.smb.museum
www.haus-am-checkpoint-charlie.de
www.orte-der-erinnerung.de
www.topographie.de
www.stiftung-hsh.de
www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de
wwww.bstu.bund.de
ww.story-of-berlin.de
www.www.radialystem.de
www.gorki.de
www.konzerthaus.de
www.deutscheoperberlin.de
www.deutschestheater.de
www.berliner-philharmoniker.de
www.heimathafen-neukoelln.de
TOURS:
www.stattreisenberlin.de - tours that are also menat for locals
Tip-based:
www.alternativeberlin.com
www.newberlintours.com (starts every day at 11am in front of Starbucks on Brandeburger Gate, several languages offered. No reservation needed, but show up in time. Duration about 3,5hrs, tips are paid afterwards).
http://www.antitour.de/ (currently on a break, hope they start somewhen again)
By bike:
www.newberlintours.com
www.fattirebiketours.com/berlin
www.city-discovery.com/berlin
www.berlinbiketour.eu
www.berlinonbike.de
Underground and Bunker tours:
www.berliner-unterwelten.de
POOLPARTY:
http://www.arena-berlin.de/badeschiff/
In Berlin there are about 34 000 couchsurfers, so don’t worry about finding a host. I can give you useful information now or you can forward it to your friends who will visit Berlin.
Well, it’s not my hometown but I know something about it ‘cos my partner lives there and I visit him on a regular basis.
I don’t know the city well, but check this website: www.gratis-in-berlin.de or www.berlin.de. It’s also worth going to DDR Museum, interactive, you can sit in a Trabant and touch some exhibits. Next to the museum there are boats and you can take the boat tours around Spree river. Check also www.trabisafari.de.
If you want to visit Reichstag (Bundestag) it’s for free but at east a few days before you have to register online on this website:https://visite.bundestag.de/BAPWeb/pages/createBookingRequest.jsf?lang=en
Bundestag is 5 min. on foot from Hbf (the Central Station) The view of the city from the coppola of Bundestag is magnificent and you can also be a viewer of the seating of the parliament – the same procedure as mentioned above.
Every Day before the tourist information centre in front of Bundestag there are crowds of tourists who want to visit the place and they think they’ll enter just like that. First you need to register online, you put in your personal data and days plus hours you want to visit the place. Then you get the info when you can visit. You must be about 15-30 min. before the specified hour. There is a personal control similar to this at airports and they control your ID or passport.
How much time you will spend in Bundestag is up to you, you can even sit down on a bench at the top and rest for hours.
Info about the public transport is here: www.bvg.de. Ask your host to get something for you: a map of U-Bahn and S-Bahn plus trams. These maps are also to download on this bvg website. My host also had something more for us to use while In Berlin: a city map and some guidebooks in English. We could borrow these things. When you get on the bus, you use the door only from the driver’s side and you must show the ticket to the driver or buy one. In the tram you don’t do that. But in both buses and trams when you want to get off you must press the button before the bus/tram stop. Some tickets you must validate – punch. Watch out what is written on them in English. To bvg you can write emails in English and ask questions, they reply! They have zones A-C and within them you can use all transport except these types of trains: IC, EC and ICE. On each bus/train/tram stop there is info which zone it is.
Also I recommend flea markets, in German Flohmarkt.
more info about berlin
http://www.be.berlin.de/
http://www.berlin.de/en/
http://www.ddr-museum.de/en/
http://berliner-unterwelten.de/guided-tours.3.1.html
http://www.visitberlin.de/en/see/city-tours
When you get off from subway at Kurt-Schumacher Platz you can see the planes just over your head ‘cos it’s close to Tegel Airport! The feeling is amazing! It’s like this every 2 minutes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=F3yXOaGRxSA
Tour of new future BER Airport: http://www.visitberlin.de/en/editors-tip/guided-tour-of-ber-airport
http://www.visitberlin.de/en/see/city-tours
Clips shot on location in Berlin:
Glassperlenspiel “Echt”, "Freundshaft" and "Ich bin ich"
Paul van Dyk, Peter Heppner “Wir sind wir” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66cr41DNnM
Paul van Dyk (DJ from Berlin) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6Th774-PM&feature=related
places worth visiting or things worth trying out in berlin:
http://hamann-schokolade.de/02_Laden/laden.html
http://www.rausch-schokolade.com/schokoland/index.html
http://www.qype.com/place/512782-Britzer-Bistro-Berlin - I like kebab from here
http://www.sdtb.de/Englisch.55.0.html
http://www.curry36.de/
http://www.currywurstmuseum.de/en/die-currywurst-hat-ein-museum/
http://konnopke-imbiss.de/
http://www.rogacki.de/
It happens quite often that if you are on the platform or street, speak a foreign language and you seem to be confused or with a city map in you hand, people approach you (just like that) and ask: "Do you need help". It even happened to me in summer in a village near Potsdam at about 10pm!! People showed us the way!
Also Berlin has main ditricts but also sub-districts. Zipcodes are important especially in Berlin. Because the city was divided into West Berlin and GDR it may happen that now there is more than one street of the same name but in different locations, one in the west and in the east or another possibility - one street is Edison strasse and another Edisonplatz.
Below you have the link to the article in the local newspaper - BZ, where if you scroll down you find a yellow-beige-red-orange map of Berlin quarters and the crime rate. It's under the heading: So gefährlich ist Ihr Ortsteil. I don't know why but I can't click on the map and enlarge it...http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/kriminalitaet-in-berlin-wo-berlin-am-gefaehrlichsten-ist,10809148,16985306.html
I watch German TV every day and they say that the most crimes take place in Mitte where there are tourists attractions. Well, crimes happen due to the amount of people that are there. Especially Alexanderplatz may be dangerous at night.
Generally, I felt safe in Berlin, safer than in my hometown - Gdansk, much smaller than Berlin, even though as a foreigner you are the focus of attention.
Public transport in Berlin and the area functions well: U-Bahn, S-bahn, Tram, Metrotram, Bus:
http://www.bvg.de/index.php/en/index.html
The network map you can print from the website above or while being in Berlin you can get in for free at the stations, tourist information centres. When I was in Berlin as a couchsurfer our hosts lent us guidebooks and a city map, so we didn't have to buy them.
more berlin info
If you wanted also to see the remains of the Berlin Wall are near the East Side Gallery,
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/index.en.html
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/museen/dokumentationszentrum/index.en.html
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/mauerweg/index/index.en.php
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/grenzuebergaenge/index/index.en.php
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/gedenkstaetten/index/index.en.php
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/orte/index/index.en.php
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/luftbild/index.en.html
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/museen/index.en.html
http://www.berlin.de/mauer/geschichte/index.en.html
http://www.dw.de/whats-left-of-the-berlin-wall/a-3547883-1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/27/berlin-wall-last-remnants
http://gogermany.about.com/od/berli1/p/BerlinWallTour.htm
Thhttp://www.worldsiteguides.com/europe/germany/berlin/berlin-wall/e
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g187323-d191041-r126953149-East_Side_Gallery-Berlin.html
I love DDR Museum: http://www.ddr-museum.de/en/
http://www.stasimuseum.de/en/enindex.htm
Other interesting places:
Potsdam
http://www.potsdamsanssouci.de/en.html
http://www.potsdam.de/cms/beitrag/10001008/34080/
Interesting links:
http://www.zitty.de/ (what's on - in German)
http://german.about.com/library/blfilms_berlin.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_set_in_Berlin
http://www.filmpark-babelsberg.de/start-en.html
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Berlin-TG-C-1.html
www.trabisafari.de
http://www.findingberlin.com/berlins-brutalist-architecture/
http://unusual-architecture.com/ (maybe there is something from Berlin)
http://thegrumpyoldlimey.com/pages/Futuro-Berlin-Germany.html
http://www.abandonedberlin.com/
http://needleberlin.com/2012/11/25/strange-animals-over-alexanderplatz/
http://www.architectureinberlin.com/?page_id=139
http://www.jewish-berlin.com/index.php
http://www.internations.org/berlin-expats/americans
http://www.expat-blog.com/en/nationalities/american/in/europe/germany/berlin/
Blogs about Berlin in English:
http://www.berlin.de/en/
http://www.oh-berlin.com/en/oh-berlin/
http://www.uberlin.co.uk/
http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/2012/02/14/25-of-our-favourite-berlin-blogs-websites/
http://www.iheartberlin.de/
http://www.stilinberlin.de/
http://www.berlin-stay.com/
http://www.circus-berlin.de/blog/
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