Berlin info is needed

[Martinus]

You should memorize a bunch of useful phrases in German. E.g.:

"I'm not a gypsy" or "We helped you kill Jews during WW2. Let's have sex."

[Sheilbh]

The best city in Europe.  What I hope they don't get rid of (though rather feel they will) is the gaps in the city's fabric which are uniquely suggestive of Berlin's history.  It's a wonderful place. 

[Queequeg]

The best city in Europe. 

Waaaay too much leather and hideous architecture.  Prague has all the darkness without as much Eurotrash, though more tourists per-milkilometer.

[Sheilbh]

The best city in Europe. 

Waaaay too much leather and hideous architecture.  Prague has all the darkness without as much Eurotrash, though more tourists per-milkilometer.

I love Brutalism

[Olive]

My boyfriend's german and is from there, will ask him and give you all the info.

[AnchorClanker]

At the same bus stop, you will be in front of the Picasso museum, the Egyptian museum, and Charlottenburg Palace.  Berlin is a great city.

[Zanza]

It seems I will be staying in a hotel on Nuernberger Strasse. I'll arrive tonight, and will leave on Thursday evening so that will leave me with only a few hours spread across two afternoons for non-nightlifish stuff.

Take the U2 from Wittenbergplatz to Potsdamer Platz and then do the tour I described above.

[Tamas]

It seems I will be staying in a hotel on Nuernberger Strasse. I'll arrive tonight, and will leave on Thursday evening so that will leave me with only a few hours spread across two afternoons for non-nightlifish stuff.

Take the U2 from Wittenbergplatz to Potsdamer Platz and then do the tour I described above.

The office turned out to be reasonably near to potsdamer platz, so after getting lost, I managed to make this trip you suggested, and it was great. Thank you!

[Tamas]

Any chance of anyone remembering a good restaurant along the general line of Zanza's Checkpoint Charlie -> Reichstag trip?

It turned out I dont like half-grilled lamb sold for me for a small fortune in the hotel's restaurant, and I feel own myself more than KFC for dinner 

[Martinus]

It's actually funny but I've never been to Berlin before. I always plan to go and never find a good occasion. I'd come for a Berlin Languish meet.

[Zanza]

It's actually funny but I've never been to Berlin before. I always plan to go and never find a good occasion. I'd come for a Berlin Languish meet.

Here is the perfect sight for you: http://www.glbtq.com/arts/schwules_museum.html 

I would be up for a Berlin Languish meet sometime.

[Tamas]

I could not really do any sightseeing yesterday. Basically, I knew all the museums were closed, and I just could not arse myself to decode mass transit maps to go and stare on buildings from the outside.

Its too bad I won't be around for a couple of more days, I started to know my way around the inner city around Potsdammerplatz quite well, almost with no help of a map.

Found a nice central-america themed restaurant last evening, then watched the Wigan-Manchester game at the bar of the Irish pub next to my hotel. Met an Welsh bloke who have been a Manure supporter for 40 years, I felt it better to make clear while we were both sober that I wanted Manure to lose. they won Had some nice Guiness, Jagermeister, and light beer, then after the game listened to the live band for a while, and that was the close of my last free night in Berlin.

I definetly would like to return here, especially for a Languish meet. Prices seemed quite reasonable, the not over-the-top restaurants have only slightly highter prices than Hungarian ones for food, altough they make up for it on attrocious beer prices, which are like 4 times the hungarian ones.