Берлин, Германия
Travel stories and photos from Berlin, Germany. 23 posts.
#Review In conclusion about #Berlin, I'll say that after my second trip, my attitude towards the city has changed dramatically for the better. It's a rare case when you give a place a second chance, and it lives up to it. How to "understand" Berlin? Well,…
To somehow calm the crowd, the center of #Berlin is partially cordoned off by the police. In some squares, like Alexanderplatz, it's even forbidden to launch fireworks. There have been many cases where someone launched fireworks directly into a crowd of…
One of my best decisions on my last trip was to celebrate New Year's Eve in #Berlin. In Canada, it's a pretty dull holiday, but in Berlin, it's the opposite - it's an opportunity to turn the city into a battlefield for a day... Well, in a relatively good way…
#Berlin As you can probably guess, Charlie is just the letter C, and there were also two border checkpoints, Alpha and Bravo. To roughly understand where they were located, you can think about how people actually traveled from West Germany to West Berlin…
One of the politically charged places in #Berlin is still Checkpoint Charlie. It might seem like 40 years have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but people still flock to the former border crossing point. There's a full-fledged museum nearby, but…
#Berlin We did a bar crawl of the pubs in Kreuzberg. Unlike the clubs in Berlin, everything here is quite civilized, and it's not exactly expensive. It's punk with a soul, the interior is right on theme, coupled with rock/metal music playing! One downside…
#Berlin Further along Charlottenburg: As you head north, the areas become less grand, and in some places, you can even see typical residential buildings. It might seem like there's not much to explore anymore... but suddenly, you come across a huge…
The districts of #Berlin - Charlottenburg It's worth visiting here if you're looking for the "rich western Berlin". It used to be a separate city, but in the 1920s it was incorporated into the rapidly growing "Greater Berlin". There's a lot of classic…
The districts of #Berlin - Kreuzberg It's not as scary as they make it out to be. I was expecting some real trashiness, but in reality, there are just a few streets with graffiti and markets with kebab stalls in the square. If you go further away, you'll…
Many criticize #Berlin for the fact that there's not much historical architecture left here. But! This clearly doesn't apply to the center, where the palaces and cathedrals have been surprisingly well preserved. It's even interesting whether they weren't…
#Berlin During my short trip, I didn't find many modern projects that really caught my eye, but at least these three, in my opinion, deserve attention. In the first case, it's interesting how the building fits into a row of houses, having a flat and sloping…
The "New Year's" oriental #Berlin - it's just a delight for the eyes😂 Seriously, no matter how you decorate the panels, they'll still look sad.
#Berlin Friedrichshain is probably the only district of East Berlin that I really liked 😅 But not the avenue with the huge "Stalinist-style buildings", where the cold air blows through you in winter, but the residential quarters behind it. There's…
#Berlin In pure German
#Berlin By the New Year, the Christmas markets are already closing, but my friend and I managed to squeeze in a visit. Everything's the same as always - overpriced mulled wine, hot dogs, gingerbread, and... Samosas with pilaf? 😆
#Berlin One aspect of Berlin that simply cannot be ignored is graffiti. Of course, it's not on every building, but there's definitely more of it here than in any other European city. Many people criticize it, reasonably believing that it spoils the…
Nighttime #Berlin So different, simultaneously alien and familiar.
Drawing an analogy with Bali, #Berlin didn't really "accept" me very well. Deciding to save a hundred bucks, I took a layover in Munich for a couple of hours. Of course, the flight from Toronto was delayed, everything went to hell, and my second flight was…
I've decided to switch back to Europe from Asia. Well, you gotta add some variety somehow! I spent the end of December and the beginning of January in the well-known city of #Berlin. This is my second trip there, and again in winter! Well, such is my…
#Berlin What surprised me in Berlin was the unusual abundance of tall buildings scattered throughout the city. Yes, there were 30-story glass skyscrapers in Warsaw and Paris too, but they were always clustered together, like business centers. Here, however,…
#Berlin #Review From my numerous trips around the world, I've come to realize that every city has its own style. Berlin also has one. But for some reason, it's so elusive that it doesn't coalesce into a unified picture, at least for me. I spent five days in…
#Berlin Sometimes you get too spoiled and forget that if a station is new and clean, and the train arrives 90% on time, that's already a human achievement. In terms of the metro, I'd rank Berlin somewhere between Rome and Paris. The city still has many…
#Berlin Germany spares no one... I'm returning the bottles.