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Title: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 09, 2004, 12:41:21 PM
I'll be going there next week for 5 days to celebrate being a year older. I'm really looking forward to it, and I hear there's no shortage of things to do, but I wonder if anyone here and any personal recommendations. Perhaps also of towns or villages nearby that I could visit in an afternoon....

Never been to Germany before, I can't wait!

Heh, shame I won't have time to come back with armfuls of Amiga hardware...
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 09, 2004, 12:47:18 PM
Berlin is a cool place. Well, from what I remember anyway. I've been there one time in (at?) secondary school in 94 or 95. I distinctly remember all the building cranes and -sites. Apart from the usual museums and stuff our class visited the 'Sans souci (http://www.igougo.com/planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?JournalID=8356&EntryID=15223&n=Potsdam%20and%20Sans%20Souci&t=Historic%20Sights)' palace/castle thing from the Hohenzollern royal family, I really liked that trip.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 09, 2004, 12:56:17 PM
Unfortunately, I've never visited Berlin.
But I've visited Germany more often.
From that experience, I'd say: find a nice "Biergarten" and ask for a "Große Weißen"
:-) :pint:
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 09, 2004, 01:28:36 PM

The Ringel-S is no longer in use ;-).
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: MAD on September 09, 2004, 01:42:16 PM
Hoya!

I have heard there was a nice wall to be seen... ;-)

Be funky

M A D
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: redrumloa on September 09, 2004, 05:11:30 PM
If it were me, I'd visit the holocaust museum.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 09, 2004, 05:14:42 PM
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redrumloa wrote:
If it were me, I'd visit the holocaust museum.


I think that's already been pencilled in by the other person who's going.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 09, 2004, 08:13:42 PM
Try to visit a former concentration camp. While not a very 'fun' trip it certainly is very engrossing and impressive. Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen is very close to Berlin, about 20km IIRC.

Here's (http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~pjmoilan/Berlin/kzsachs.html) some info on Sachsenhausen.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: x56h34 on September 09, 2004, 09:15:27 PM
You're a bit late for visiting the famous Berlin wall. :-)
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: that_punk_guy on September 09, 2004, 10:00:19 PM
I've been to Germany, it's pretty. :-)
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 01:16:32 AM
Thanks for your suggestions guys.
I'd like to think there's loads more to Germany than reminders of WWII as well though  :-(  :-o
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 10, 2004, 12:01:37 PM
Well....there's beer. And bratwurst.....but other than that? ;-).

-edit-

Oh I know! Eisbein! :-D.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 10, 2004, 12:18:36 PM
Da ist doch auch Schweinbratchen und Sauerkraut?
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 12:53:50 PM
sigh

This wasn't meant to be a thread where Dutch people could take the piss out of the Germans! :-P
 
Now any Germans reading this will be put off advising me where to go in Berlin...  :-(  
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 10, 2004, 12:56:11 PM
:lol: Hell no, I think any Germans reading this will jump to take the counter-piss out of NL :-).

;-)
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 10, 2004, 12:57:22 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
sigh

This wasn't meant to be a thread where Dutch people could take the piss out of the Germans! :-P  
"piss out of the Germans" :-? :-? :-?
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 10, 2004, 12:58:22 PM
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odin wrote:
;-)
DON'T mention the war! :lol:
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 10, 2004, 12:59:25 PM
'To take the piss out of '

'Grappen maken ten koste van '
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 10, 2004, 01:01:26 PM
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odin wrote:
'To take the piss out of '

'Grappen maken ten koste van '
I knew that (or well, I guessed that), but I wasn't taking the piss out of the Germans... I couldn't see where exactly we did such.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 01:03:15 PM
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
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odin wrote:
'To take the piss out of '

'Grappen maken ten koste van '
I knew that, but I wasn't taking the piss out of the Germans...


Oh, I thought you were stereotyping them.
Sauerkraut and such....

Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 10, 2004, 01:09:51 PM
Now would be a good time to play De Heideroosjes - Wurst und Käse (http://home.tiscali.be/waltertje/waltertjes_bestanden/Songtexts/heideroosjes-wurstundkaze.htm) :-).
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Cyberus on September 10, 2004, 01:14:37 PM
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Ich trink ein Bier mit dir,
du hast nichts falsch gemacht
Zusammen gegen Neo-Nazis,
hatte ich mir gedacht


I understand the first line with no help. 'I drink a beer with you'. But I used a translator for the next part, and it gave the rather awkward translation:

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I drink a beer with you, you have nothing wrongly made together against neo-Nazis, I had imagined

:lol: WTF?
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: odin on September 10, 2004, 01:31:54 PM
I drink a beer with you
You haven't done anything wrong
Together against neonazis
Is what I had in mind

Oh btw, that particular incarnation of the lyrics in the link is rather crappy with regards to proper German spelling and grammar.
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on September 10, 2004, 10:33:47 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
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Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Quote

odin wrote:
'To take the piss out of '

'Grappen maken ten koste van '
I knew that, but I wasn't taking the piss out of the Germans...


Oh, I thought you were stereotyping them.
Sauerkraut and such....

naaah, it just tastes good :-)
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: cecilia on September 11, 2004, 01:27:54 AM
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x56h34 wrote:
You're a bit late for visiting the famous Berlin wall. :-)
Oh! Damn! and i sure hope they still have that Iron Curtain up! :-D
Title: Re: Anyone got any recommendations of places to visit in Berlin?
Post by: Tigger on September 11, 2004, 06:38:54 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
I'll be going there next week for 5 days to celebrate being a year older. I'm really looking forward to it, and I hear there's no shortage of things to do, but I wonder if anyone here and any personal recommendations. Perhaps also of towns or villages nearby that I could visit in an afternoon....


Wall was still up last time I was there, but the Pergamon Museum in what used to be East Berlin, is one of the most impressive museums in the world.  
     -Tig