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Started by Tamas, April 23, 2009, 04:18:10 PM

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Tamas

April 23, 2009, 04:18:10 PM
I MAY end up spending a week in Berlin to learn work stuff. Well me and some other colleauges. Sometime in May.

Assuming I do get to go there, I would need tips on how to spend the afternoons and nights. What neighborhoods to go and avoid, etc. I am sure the local coworkers will be happy to help, but the project is about moving work from them to us, so perhaps they will not be totally full of goodwill. :P

garbon

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April 23, 2009, 04:19:31 PM
www.berlinfo.com

Quote* berlinfo recommends: BERLIN HOTELS *
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April 23, 2009, 04:24:10 PM
Berlin is pretty big area-wise. Do you know where you'll be? IBM (you work for them right?) have quite a few offices in Berlin apparently.

crazy canuck

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April 23, 2009, 04:25:38 PM
Berlin has everything and then some.   What is it that you want to do?

HVC

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April 23, 2009, 04:47:14 PM
They have no more walls. Got a little zealous during the late 80's and tore them all down
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Josephus

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April 23, 2009, 04:53:25 PM
Actually part of the wall is still around.

I was in Berlin for 3 days a couple years ago. I stayed here:

http://www.hotel-adlon.de/en/home/index.htm It's probably beyond your means though. [Other guests at the hotel included Clinton and Queen Elizabeth.]

It's beyond my means, but I was a guest of the hotel  :P
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Tamas

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April 23, 2009, 04:55:20 PM
Quote from: Zanza2 on April 23, 2009, 04:24:10 PM
Berlin is pretty big area-wise. Do you know where you'll be? IBM (you work for them right?) have quite a few offices in Berlin apparently.

Really? Yeah I work for them, but have no more info yet.

I am afraid we will have very few time for tourism stuff durin the late afternoons. What is an absolute must to see?
I will update the thread when I have more info.

Tamas

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April 23, 2009, 04:55:49 PM
Quote from: Josephus on April 23, 2009, 04:53:25 PM
Actually part of the wall is still around.

I was in Berlin for 3 days a couple years ago. I stayed here:

http://www.hotel-adlon.de/en/home/index.htm It's probably beyond your means though. [Other guests at the hotel included Clinton and Queen Elizabeth.]

It's beyond my means, but I was a guest of the hotel  :P

AFAIK hotel will be handled by the company.

Josephus

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April 23, 2009, 05:03:10 PM
Quote from: Tamas on April 23, 2009, 04:55:49 PM


AFAIK hotel will be handled by the company.

Tell them you want the Adlon or you'll quit.  ;)
It was really cool Had remote control for the window drapes.
Oh and a bathtub to die for. I don't normally have baths, but I couldn't help myself.
Oh, and I had use of a Benz to drive around in.
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Tamas

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April 23, 2009, 06:15:56 PM
Quote from: Josephus on April 23, 2009, 05:03:10 PM
Quote from: Tamas on April 23, 2009, 04:55:49 PM


AFAIK hotel will be handled by the company.


Oh, and I had use of a Benz to drive around in.

Sadly some time ago a douchebag on a company mission like this totalled the rented car the company gave him, since then we can only use taxis.
Altough I can't say I mind it in my case: I hate big city traffic.

Pat

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April 23, 2009, 06:42:25 PM
If you are approached by a middle-eastern man as you very much drunkenly zig-zag from Kurfurstendamm to Zoologischer Garten, who wants you to buy drugs, then my advice is to say no thanks. He will only give you a ball of plastic and then say the police is coming and you need to put it in your mouth and then he will disappear. Then when you open the ball of plastic and find nothing else than more plastic, he will be long gone with your euros. This, uh, happened to a friend of mine.

Razgovory

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April 23, 2009, 06:59:08 PM
Don't steal anything. :mad:
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Zanza

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April 24, 2009, 12:24:26 AM Last Edit: April 24, 2009, 12:27:46 AM by Zanza2
Quote from: Tamas on April 23, 2009, 04:55:20 PMI am afraid we will have very few time for tourism stuff durin the late afternoons. What is an absolute must to see?
As you are interested in history, walk from Reichstag to Soviet Memorial to Brandenburg Gate to Holocaust Memorial to Potsdamer Platz to Topographie des Terrors in Niederkirchner Straße to Checkpoint Charlie.

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Iormlund

#13
April 24, 2009, 12:32:52 AM
Watch out for Panzerfausts and Tiergarten 88s'!

citizen k

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April 24, 2009, 01:21:37 AM
If you want to see museums, Museumsinsel is pretty cool. Pergamon museum has replica of Ishtar Gate.




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